[LinuxBIOS] 440bx folks: looking for spd data

[joe at smittys.pointclark.net]

Quoting Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net>:

> On 14.05.2007 11:16, Corey Osgood wrote:
>>
>> Yep, I know about uniflash, it's what I was using with this board
>> before. The problem still is getting the rom from my floppy-less laptop
>> to the other machine in a manner DOS can understand. I tried to get usb
>> working on a dos boot disk, but none of the drivers I tried worked. So
>> it's still boot into linux, read rom off the usb/network and copy to
>> floppy/second partition, then reboot to flash. I suppose it is possible
>> to set up DOS to work on the network, but that's something I've never
>> done before, and doesn't seem like much fun. I found one howto in the
>> freedos wiki, but it's really just the history of networking, with no
>> real instruction.
>
> The "Ultimate Boot CD" has bootable DOS images which can support
> Uniflash and IIRC one of the DOS images can even send files over
> the net or at least access some USB flash keys.
>
> Regards,
> Carl-Daniel
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I just use cf card /w usb reader on my linux build machine and a  
cf-to-ide adapter on my linuxbios devel board. Formated the cf card  
with dr. dos and put uniflash on it, this way I have lots of space and  
many flash images to choose from. Now I am ready for hotflashing:)

Thanks - Joe