Need to trim Win98 Startup Disk for Bios Update..

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Lee Flynn

Hi there,

Generic question, here. Gateway has provided 760 Kb of
Bios Flash, with instructions to copy onto a Win98 MS-DOS
Startup Disk.

'Anyone know off-hand which files are non-essential to
that purpose, that I can trim from the standard 1.37 Mb
startup disk, to fit the Gtwy files onto?

TIA,

~ Lee
 
Depends on which files are on your disk

This also presumes that you don't have any special hardware that needs
drivers loaded from the disk.

Then, I'm guessing that it's these, at a minimum, that are required to boot
with:
command.com
himem.sys
io.sys
msdos.sys
autoexec.bat (may cause errors without the other files)
config.sys (may cause errors without the other files)

I'd suggest doing a diskcopy or making another copy of the boot disk in case
your trials result in an inoperative disk.

- John
 
Lee said:
Hi there,

Generic question, here. Gateway has provided 760 Kb of
Bios Flash, with instructions to copy onto a Win98 MS-DOS
Startup Disk.

'Anyone know off-hand which files are non-essential to
that purpose, that I can trim from the standard 1.37 Mb
startup disk, to fit the Gtwy files onto?

TIA,

~ Lee
Click to expand...

To clarify, I need to lose 525 Kb from the Win98 startup disk,
in order to fit the bios update onto the floppy. Does anyone
know which of the following files are unessential to booting
an XP system with the floppy ?

If it takes losing several smaller files, could someone just mark
the files that can be trimmed by marking them with X's, below ?

Thanks !

~ Lee


Bios Update_________ 757Kb

BEEP.COM 1 KB
IFLASH.EXE 213 KB
P07-0043.BIO 542 KB
P07-0043.INI 1 KB
readme.txt 3 KB

Win98 Startup Disk____ 243 Kb free

ASPI2DOS.SYS 35 KB
ASPI4DOS.SYS 15 KB
ASPI8DOS.SYS 37 KB
ASPI8U2.SYS 40 KB
ASPICD.SYS 29 KB
BTCDROM.SYS 22 KB
BTDOSM.SYS 31 KB
DRVSPACE.BIN 68 KB
EBD.CAB 266 KB
EXTRACT.EXE 92 KB
FDISK.EXE 63 KB
FINDRAMD.EXE 7 KB
FLASHPT.SYS 63 KB
HIMEM.SYS 33 KB
OAKCDROM.SYS 41 KB
RAMDRIVE.SYS 13 KB
README.TXT 16 KB
SETRAMD.BAT 2 KB
AUTOEXEC.BAT 2 KB
COMMAND.COM 92 KB
CONFIG.SYS 1 KB
EBD.SYS 0 KB
IO.SYS 218 KB
MSDOS.SYS 1 KB
 
|>Hi there,
|>
|>Generic question, here. Gateway has provided 760 Kb of
|>Bios Flash, with instructions to copy onto a Win98 MS-DOS
|>Startup Disk.
|>
|>'Anyone know off-hand which files are non-essential to
|>that purpose, that I can trim from the standard 1.37 Mb
|>startup disk, to fit the Gtwy files onto?

Got two Floppies :) or know someone running Win98?

Format a floppy with Win98 then type SYS C: A: (from a Win98 OS)
This will copy only: command.com, io.sys, msdos.sys to the disk and
make it bootable, and all you should need to run your program.

You can't copy io.sys, it has to be in a specific place on the Floppy
to be found.
 
Lee said:
To clarify, I need to lose 525 Kb from the Win98 startup disk,
in order to fit the bios update onto the floppy. Does anyone
know which of the following files are unessential to booting
an XP system with the floppy ?

If it takes losing several smaller files, could someone just mark
the files that can be trimmed by marking them with X's, below ?

Thanks !

~ Lee


Bios Update_________ 757Kb

BEEP.COM 1 KB
IFLASH.EXE 213 KB
P07-0043.BIO 542 KB
P07-0043.INI 1 KB
readme.txt 3 KB

Win98 Startup Disk____ 243 Kb free

ASPI2DOS.SYS 35 KB
ASPI4DOS.SYS 15 KB
ASPI8DOS.SYS 37 KB
ASPI8U2.SYS 40 KB
ASPICD.SYS 29 KB
BTCDROM.SYS 22 KB
BTDOSM.SYS 31 KB
DRVSPACE.BIN 68 KB
EBD.CAB 266 KB
EXTRACT.EXE 92 KB
FDISK.EXE 63 KB
FINDRAMD.EXE 7 KB
FLASHPT.SYS 63 KB
HIMEM.SYS 33 KB
OAKCDROM.SYS 41 KB
RAMDRIVE.SYS 13 KB
README.TXT 16 KB
SETRAMD.BAT 2 KB
AUTOEXEC.BAT 2 KB
COMMAND.COM 92 KB
CONFIG.SYS 1 KB
EBD.SYS 0 KB
IO.SYS 218 KB
MSDOS.SYS 1 KB
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my question would be ...why? I have done the bios update thing ...booted to
a boot disk ,then swapped for another disk with the update on it ...ran it
,then rebooted...

did you try that ?
 
Use my bios flash disk.
Generic question, here. Gateway has provided 760 Kb of
Bios Flash, with instructions to copy onto a Win98 MS-DOS
Startup Disk.

'Anyone know off-hand which files are non-essential to
that purpose, that I can trim from the standard 1.37 Mb
startup disk, to fit the Gtwy files onto?
Click to expand...
 
Haggis said:
....
my question would be ...why? I have done the bios update thing
...booted to a boot disk ,then swapped for another disk with the
update on it ...ran it ,then rebooted...

did you try that ?
Click to expand...

'Say, Haggis

No, I hadn't tried that, though I would have if it weren't for
how damned cautiously I approach flash updates. I wouldn't
fool with it at all, but it's a critical fan adjustment that will
save my using a hardware workaround.

So I preferred for no good reason to simply comply with Gateway's
instruction to load it all on a single disk -- and did get the update
loaded onto a drdos boot disk, finally -- but got back the message
"system doesn't support flash memory" when I executed iflash.exe.

Thanks for reporting success with switching out disks to flash..
makes perfect sense.. though I wonder why that wasn't the
immediate answer that came up, here.

Anyway, I'm off to learn what's up with my system and flash memory.

Thanks alot,

~ Lee
 
Thanks John,

There was a pared down boot disk for just this purpose
available at bootdisk.com.

~ Lee
 
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Lee Flynn said:
Hi there,

Generic question, here. Gateway has provided 760 Kb of
Bios Flash, with instructions to copy onto a Win98 MS-DOS
Startup Disk.

'Anyone know off-hand which files are non-essential to
that purpose, that I can trim from the standard 1.37 Mb
startup disk, to fit the Gtwy files onto?

TIA,

~ Lee
Click to expand...

Just format a floppy from XP. This will boot the computer and have the space
to copy the BIOS files to.

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Io.sys
msdos.sys
command.com
are essential.
Rest is unneeded.

Said files must be in proper location of the floppy diskette for booting.
Copying these is inadequate.
 
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