booting dos without floppy!

[azntiger0586]

i am getting ready to flash my 9800np to pro.
but i notice that you have to boot into dos with a floppy.
is there anyway i can boot into dos with certain files and put them on a cd..
and then from there use my harddrive to go to flashrom and flash the card from there?

many thanks

 

[azntiger0586]

anyone can help?

 

[stardust]

noo... why do u want to do that?!

just make 2 floppies man, its not hard...

 

[azntiger0586]

i would but i dont have a floppy drive!!

 

[Schadenfroh]

nero has an option for bootable cd, but next time just pay 5 bux for a floppy drive

 

[PowerMacG5]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
nero has an option for bootable cd, but next time just pay 5 bux for a floppy drive

I second that. Nero can take any floppy image and burn it to a CD Drive using the Mt. Rainier standard. When I built my computer a year and a half ago, I was debating putting a floppy in there, but I realized its like 5 bucks, and it does no harm.

 

[tenoc]

Score another victim of the "floppies are way toooo retro doooode" argument.

Thread #456,127 starting with "Here's my new $3500 system. Do I want a $6.99 floppy drive?"

Not until you need it! :disgust:

 

[leolaw]

where can you buy a 5 bucks floppy drive? mine is like 20 (USB)

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: leolaw
where can you buy a 5 bucks floppy drive? mine is like 20 (USB)

USB - well that's why. The standard internal ones can be had new at computer shows for under $8.

 

[Guild]

I am an iMac, I have no floppy drive!! Boohawaha!!

 

[LoverBoyJ]

Originally posted by: tenoc
Score another victim of the "floppies are way toooo retro doooode" argument.

Thread #456,127 starting with "Here's my new $3500 system. Do I want a $6.99 floppy drive?"

Not until you need it! :disgust:

LOL!!!
Wasn't DELL trying to get rid of the floppy drives bec thier sooo outdate???

 

[MercenaryForHire]

LS120 is the Wave of the Future!

- M4H

 

[newbiepcuser]

Originally posted by: Guild
I am an iMac, I have no floppy drive!! Boohawaha!!

 

[TerryMathews]

Originally posted by: LoverBoyJ

Wasn't DELL trying to get rid of the floppy drives bec thier sooo outdate???

Yes, although it's more likely that Dell was trying to get rid of the floppy drive so that normal people don't screw up their system and call them for support. Most normal users give up when they realize that they can't just boot off the floppy their friend gave them.

And by this, I'm referring to installing OSes, newer BIOSes, running fdisk, basically all of the destructive activities that normally require a floppy.

 

[onlyCOpunk]

My computer has been floppy free for almost 4 years now. Just make a bootable cd, that's all I use when I need DOS. If you have a second hard drive just put the files on that, or on a cd, whatever you prefer.

 

[dayg]

Does anyone have a link on how to create a bootable CD? Are there any other free softwares that can create a bootable CD? Also, I have a USB (128MB) Key and wondering if it's possible to boot a system with it?

 

[gramboh]

Some of the USB key/pen drives are bootable, I believe it requires specific software that is capable of formatting the drive and a BIOS that allows booting from USB devices. Or you could try just copying on the necessary files (msdos.sys, autoexec.bat etc.) since I'm pretty sure this is all format blah: /s does.

 

[Aardy]

Originally posted by: onlyCOpunk
My computer has been floppy free for almost 4 years now. Just make a bootable cd, that's all I use when I need DOS. If you have a second hard drive just put the files on that, or on a cd, whatever you prefer.

Would you mind sharing how to make a bootable CD that can got into DOS?

 

[sinensis]

www.bootdisk.com
has instructionson maknig a w98 boot CD, that will let you access MS DOS Prompt, if you aren't running NTFS, there are also boot CDs for XP/2k and others.