Month: July 2008
Totally unsupported Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) installer for ServerBeach RapidRescue
The aging Red Hat Enterprise ES4 server I have colocated at ServerBeach was starting to get a bit crufty and I felt kind of dirty running RHEL instead of Ubuntu now that I’m working for Canonical. It was finally time to bring up a shiny new Dell PowerEdge 440 running Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron […]
Creating DOS floppies and USB thumbdrives for BIOS flashing
MS-DOS or another DOS derivative is still required for flashing the BIOS on some desktops, servers, notebooks, and mobile devices. These tools automate the creation of boot floppies and USB thumbdrives instead of fighting with tools like MKBT (Make Bootable). Required Tools Unofficial MS-DOS 6.22 boot floppy Official Dell 32 Bit Diagnostics version CW1337A0 17-Jul-2008