Subject: Re: as200_v7_0.sys: anyone using it?
From: Janina Sajka (janina@afb.net)
Date: Mon Sep 13 1999 - 12:07:27 PDT
They may have really meant "DOS floppy since the ARC preference is re NT
support. This confused me a bit at first. To write a DOS disk that SRM
could update from, you needed a second utility called mkboot. But, to
update ARC, you simply copied the AS200* file to a DOS floppy as
fwupdate.exe. So, seems the SRM won't read the DOS fwupdate, and the ARC
won't read the SRM enabled one.
Janina Sajka, Director
Information Systems Research & Development
American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
janina@afb.net
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> > I do not know how to make a *bootable* DOS disk from within Linux.
>
> Format a floppy, run mkdosfs on it and and add a copy of 'syslinux'. :-)
> Your garden-variety Red Hat distribution for Intel, for example,
> comes with DOS bootable floppies of that sort. Well, "add" in this
> case means also a right boot sector. You can use 'dd' to clone
> such floppies if you have one around.
>
> I strongly suspect that they meant in a firmware update instructions
> actually something else; but who knows, maybe that would be enough.
>
> If you meant a floppy like one created with 'format /S' under DOS
> then you run into problems with an ownership of COMMAND.COM and
> other files needed for that.
>
> Michal
>
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