Install freedos on usb with ubuntu qemu firmware update

{ agosto 30, 2011 @ 1:52 pm } · { Ubuntu }
{ Tags: firmware usb, freedos, freedos firmware, freedos qemu, freedos usb, qemu, Ubuntu, ubuntu freedos }

This are the steps:

install qemu for test usb disk

apt-get install qemu-kvm

Download freedos
wget http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/fdbasecd.iso

Format your key usb
sudo mkfs.msdos /dev/sdx1
sdx is your partition

Attention!!!
sudo qemu -boot d -m 512 -cdrom /path/fdbasecd.iso -hda /dev/sdx

sdx must be entire usb disk device

Press 1
Press 1
Choise your languages
Press 5 (Run FreeDOS from CD-ROM)
TYPE into DOS SHell
a:
sys c:
That’s all

Close Qemu Window
only 2 file must be into c: : command.com and kernel.sys

unplug the usb stick and plug in again
copy your firmware into usb drive

Bye