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There's also a Windows Live CD out there, and at least one site with 
instructions on how to make a Windows live CD that you can run apps off of.  
If you're really against getting Windows installed, you could probably create 
one of those to run the app from. 

-Jay

On Friday 04 March 2005 08:53 am, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> Thanks again, Mike  :-)
>
> I've not given up on restoring the NT box, rather waiting on the new
> video card that'll handle the framebuffer requirement of QtPartEd.
> Thanks again for offering to loan yours but I decided if this works,
> this capability is worth owning. Besides the card was <$5 on Ebay :-)
>
> Thank you for pointing to FreeDOS but my ROM burner programs from the
> motherboard vendor runs under Windows and won't DOS. I tried  :-(
>
> How about VMware ? Will it allow flashing of the hardware BIOS or does
> it have a resident software BIOS ?
>
> BTW, all this is going on under FreeBSD-4.3, in Linux compatibility
> mode, which I'm trying to upgrade to FreeBSD-5.3.
>
> Cordially,
>
> Courtney
>
> Michael Trausch wrote:
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> > Courtney Thomas wrote:
> >>Trey,
> >>
> >>I see you are running FreeBSD-5.3. I am running 4.3 and trying to
> >>upgrade but my old motherboard has an old BIOS that won't 'see' my large
> >>HD, so....I need to upgrade the BIOS so I can install 5.3. To do this I
> >>need to run some MS Win utilities to burn the new ROM and for that need
> >>to install Qemu on 4.3   :-)
> >
> > Courtney,
> >
> > You will want to use FreeDOS, outside of an emulator, to flash your
&gt; &gt; BIOS.  See the FreeDOS project at <a  rel="nofollow" href="http://www.freedos.org/";>http://www.freedos.org/</a> - create a
&gt; &gt; boot floppy - or use the Boot CD-ROM - and put your BIOS flashing
&gt; &gt; stuff on a floppy and run it from there.  Make sure you boot clean -
&gt; &gt; e.g., with ZERO drivers.  And note, your floppy drive if you boot
&gt; &gt; from the CD-ROM will be drive B:.
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; If you do not trust FreeDOS, you can use one of the images at
&gt; &gt; <a  rel="nofollow" href="http://www.bootdisk.com/";>http://www.bootdisk.com/</a> - although, I'm not sure of the legality.
&gt; &gt; I have used FreeDOS successfully to flash BIOS a few times before,
&gt; &gt; and I have (yet) to see it fail.  (*Knocks on Wood*)
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; 	Later,
&gt; &gt; 	Mike
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