HP Dc7900 BIOS Flash Q&A White Paper - Page 24

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 o Delete all files except COMMAND.COM and CONFIG.SYS 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 o Delete all the files except FDAUTO.BAT and GPL.COM o Modify FDAUTO.BAT to contain the following statements:  @echo off  set disksrc=A:  set bootsrc=realdisk  set cputype=80386  Driver directory o Delete all files except HIMEM.EXE  Root directory o Modify FDCONIG.SYS to contain the following statements:  !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)!