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Chapter 4 Software
Automation PC 810 with GM45 CPU board user's manual V1.28
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2.4 Creating a bootable USB flash drive for B&R upgrade files
When used in connection with a B&R Industrial PC, it is possible to upgrade (e.g. upgrade BIOS) from one of
the USB flash drives available from B&R. To do this, the USB flash drive must be prepared accordingly. This is
done with the B&R Embedded OS Installer, which can be downloaded at no cost from the B&R website (
2.4.1 Requirements
The following is required to create a bootable USB flash drive:
•
B&R USB flash drive
•
B&R Industrial PC
•
USB media drive
•
B&R Embedded OS Installer (V3.00 or higher)
2.4.2 Procedure
1. Connect the USB flash drive to the PC.
2. If the drive list is not refreshed automatically, the list can be updated using the command
Drives > Refresh
.
3. Select the desired USB flash drive in the drive list.
4. Change to the
Action
tab and select
Install a B&R update to a USB flash drive
as the type of action.
5. Enter the path to the MS-DOS operating system files. If the files are part of a .zip archive, then click on the
button
From .zip file
. If the files are stored in a directory on the hard drive, then click on the button
From
folder
.
6. In the
B&R upgrade
text box, it is also possible to enter the path to the .zip file for the B&R upgrade disk
and select the file.
7. Click on the
Start action
button in the toolbar.
Figure 146: Creating a USB flash drive for B&R upgrade files
2.4.3 How to access MS-DOS
Information on creating an MS-DOS boot diskette can be found in section see "Creating an MS-DOS boot diskette
in Windows XP" on page 261. The files from the diskette are then copied to the hard drive.
