by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Saturday June 29, 2019 @12:16PM (#58845820)
I boot FreeDOS over USB flash drive to update firmware on various controller cards and other hardware devices.
FreeDOS makes this painless and I don't miss wasting hours upon hours having to customize an actual MSDOS boot disk to run off a CD (optical drives also becoming rare at this point) or directly off USB flash.
not just BIOS updates (Score:1)
I boot FreeDOS over USB flash drive to update firmware on various controller cards and other hardware devices.
FreeDOS makes this painless and I don't miss wasting hours upon hours having to customize an actual MSDOS boot disk to run off a CD (optical drives also becoming rare at this point) or directly off USB flash.