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more space in freedos for bios updates?

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hagbard
2012-03-24
2012-12-12
  • hagbard

    hagbard - 2012-03-24

    hi guys,

    i write a little batch-tool with 5 different bios-versions and bios-flasher to update 5 different machines.
    i follow the faq nr. 11 "How can I insert bios flash program and firmware to the freedos so that I can upgrade the BIOS in client ?"
    (http://drbl.sourceforge.net/faq/fine-print.php?path=./2_System/13_fdos_bios_flash.faq#13_fdos_bios_flash.faq)

    but insert-file-fdos.sh say not enouth space to store the dir into the fdos-image. What can i do to have more space e.g. 15 MB for more bios-versions, tools or something else? Is there a solution?

     
  • hagbard

    hagbard - 2012-04-03

    more infos:

    - i use drbl-stable on Debian stable (is it a Debian-problem?)

    - The code:

    /opt/drbl/sbin/insert-file-fdos.sh bios/
    

       answer with

    ************************************************************************
    Note!!! Remeber to use the command "unix2dos" to convert the batch file you want to insert, otherwise it may NOT run correctly in FreeDOS!
    This program /opt/drbl/sbin/insert-file-fdos.sh will NOT do that for you!
    ************************************************************************
    Requested files space and Free space in image (kB): 5612, 1230
    Requested files space too large, abort!
    

    - and syslog say:

    drbl kernel:  FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!

     
  • Steven Shiau

    Steven Shiau - 2012-04-05

    You can find 2.88 MB freedos image here:
    http://www.fdos.org/bootdisks/
    Just replace the 1.44 MB one with this.
    Then rerun insert-file-fdos.sh to insert your files.

    Steven.

     

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