Is this possible?
Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 8:36 pm
Hi,
I'm currently downloading 50b12 ISO because I want to update the firmware of two hard disks I have. I have found the firmware file and a DOS program that is supposed to somehow install the new firmware to the disks.
What I have is a 1GB USB stick and an SATA DVD drive (but no CDs or DVDs I could write on). I haven't had a floppy disk drive in my computer since at least a decade.
What I need is a way to boot some kind of DOS (which is hopefully compatible with the program that installs the firmware update) in order to run the program that updates the firmware. That means I need to get into some sort of DOS shell from which the program and the firmware file are available.
Can I do that with the UBCD? I guess I need to modify the ISO by copying the program I need to run and the firmware file somewhere into the ISO before writing the ISO to the USB stick. If I need to create a bootable DOS disk image for that which I then copy into the ISO, well, I don't know how to do that. I could try to modify one of the images that are contained in the ISO, but will it still be bootable?
I'm mounting these image files with mount [imagefile] [mountpoint] -t loop, so they are easy to modify. But touching them could make them unbootable?
I'll try it out and see how far I get with this, but I might need some help to figure it out ...
I'm currently downloading 50b12 ISO because I want to update the firmware of two hard disks I have. I have found the firmware file and a DOS program that is supposed to somehow install the new firmware to the disks.
What I have is a 1GB USB stick and an SATA DVD drive (but no CDs or DVDs I could write on). I haven't had a floppy disk drive in my computer since at least a decade.
What I need is a way to boot some kind of DOS (which is hopefully compatible with the program that installs the firmware update) in order to run the program that updates the firmware. That means I need to get into some sort of DOS shell from which the program and the firmware file are available.
Can I do that with the UBCD? I guess I need to modify the ISO by copying the program I need to run and the firmware file somewhere into the ISO before writing the ISO to the USB stick. If I need to create a bootable DOS disk image for that which I then copy into the ISO, well, I don't know how to do that. I could try to modify one of the images that are contained in the ISO, but will it still be bootable?
I'm mounting these image files with mount [imagefile] [mountpoint] -t loop, so they are easy to modify. But touching them could make them unbootable?
I'll try it out and see how far I get with this, but I might need some help to figure it out ...