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On Mon, 10 May 2010 08:04:21 +0100 tom wrote: > I've got an old machine and the bios cant read big disks properly so > I'm trying to upgrade the bios. This requires a dos program to be run > but I'm having a mare getting a dos boot disk and cant be bothered to > burn a cd. > Does anyone know if w2k dos mode (f8 on boot) will be ok for this? > Tom te tom te tom No, I very much doubt it. "DOS Mode" for W2k is not (IIRC) a true DOS environment - it's an NT environment with a commandline interface. You could try bootdisk.com, get an image and use dd on a Linux machine to drop that image onto a floppy. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html