Appendix A - Modifying A Dos Boot Diskette For Flashbin.exe - Compaq 8000 - Elite Convertible Minitower PC Manual

operating system. The Flashbin utility provides a traditional DOS upgrade
operation for local or remote situations. Administrators can use the remote
management capabilities of such tools as SSM and Altiris to deliver enterprise wide
upgrade ability.
Regardless of the BIOS flash method, business PC products provide a high degree
of upgrade reliability and offer failure safe recovery. We are confident that HP will
remain the premier provider of comprehensive BIOS upgrade solutions in the
industry.
Appendix A – Modifying a DOS boot diskette for
Flashbin.exe
Most of the HP Business PC BIOS images will not fit on a 1.44MB floppy diskette.
Also, many product configurations may not include a standard flo9ppy disk drive.
For those situations, a bootable USB flash media (e.g., DOK) is the easiest to use as
the image source. However, for those images that will fit on a 1.44MB floppy
image, this appendix provides the instructions necessary to create a DOS bootable
flash diskette.
In order to copy Flashbin.exe, flsh.cpu, and the BIOS binary image onto the
Windows XP MS-DOS boot diskette, the following modifications must be made:
Driver directory
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Delete all files except COMMAND.COM and CONFIG.SYS
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In order to copy Flashbin.exe, flsh.cpu, and the BIOS binary image onto the
FreeDOS boot diskette, the following modifications must be made:
 FreeDOS directory
Delete all the files except FDAUTO.BAT and GPL.COM
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Modify FDAUTO.BAT to contain the following statements:
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Driver directory
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Delete all files except HIMEM.EXE
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Root directory
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Modify FDCONIG.SYS to contain the following statements:
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@echo off
set disksrc=A:
set bootsrc=realdisk
set cputype=80386
!FILES=20
!BUFFERS=20
!LASTDRIVE=Z
!SET PATH=A:\FREEDOS
!SWITCHES=/F /N
!SHELLHIGH=A:\COMMAND.COM A:\ /D /K
A:\FREEDOS\FDAUTO.BAT
!echo=Welcome to FreeDOS (http://www.freedos.org)!