Freedos Bootable Cd Image

23-04-2021 admin

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Freedos Bootable Usb Image
Freedos Bootable Cd Images

I was struggling with BIOS upgrades for our new Dell servers, as Dell didn’t provide bootable ISO image for BIOS upgrades.
After searching for DOS bootable images I have found FreeDOS project.

Normal FreeDOS installation procedures are not very convenient, and don't work from other operating systems such as Windows. Traditional method Use a normal PC system board with floppy or CD drive + IDE to CF adapter. Boot the system from floppy or CD, install the operating system on the CF card. Image copy See freedos.zip for. You can boot FreeDOS from a floppy disc or USB flash drive. PowerISO allow you create a bootable USB flash drive to boot FreeDOS. Step1: Create FreeDOS Bootable USB Drive. Start PowerISO (v7.5 or newer version, download here). Insert the USB drive you intend to boot from. Choose the menu 'Tools Create bootable USB drive.'

Unfortunately FreeDOS 1.1 LiveCD mode is not supported out of the box.

Using modified iso image from this page you can boot directly to DOS without need to install anything:

To add your own files to the iso, just use trial version of Magic ISO Maker (300MB maximum), or some similar program.
Just put your custom files in FREEDOS folder and after booting you will be able to run them in DOS environment.

After boot process is complete run dir command to see what files are in current directory.

On the following picture you can see that Dell BIOS update utility – M620-0~0.EXE is present in the directory.

The only thing left is to execute it:

Freedos Bootable Usb Image

This Bootable DOS ISO was tested on HP, DELL, Supermicro iKVMs and on VmWare.