How To Install cbios on Fedora 34

cbios is A third party BIOS compatible with the MSX BIOS

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cbios on Fedora 34.

What is cbios

C-BIOS is a BIOS compatible with the MSX BIOS written from scratch by BouKiCHi. It is available for free, including its source code and can be shipped with MSX emulators so they are usable out-of-the-box without copyright issues.

We can use yum or dnf to install cbios on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cbios.

Install cbios on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install cbios using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cbios

Install cbios on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install cbios using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cbios

How To Uninstall cbios on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the cbios package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove cbios

cbios Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/share/cbios
/usr/share/cbios/cbios_basic.rom
/usr/share/cbios/cbios_disk.rom
/usr/share/cbios/cbios_logo_msx1.rom
/usr/share/cbios/cbios_logo_msx2+.rom
/usr/share/cbios/cbios_logo_msx2.rom
/usr/share/cbios/cbios_main_msx1.rom
/usr/share/cbios/cbios_main_msx1_br.rom
/usr/share/cbios/cbios_main_msx1_eu.rom
/usr/share/cbios/cbios_main_msx1_jp.rom
/usr/share/cbios/cbios_main_msx2+.rom
/usr/share/cbios/cbios_main_msx2+_br.rom
/usr/share/cbios/cbios_main_msx2+_eu.rom
/usr/share/cbios/cbios_main_msx2+_jp.rom
/usr/share/cbios/cbios_main_msx2.rom
/usr/share/cbios/cbios_main_msx2_br.rom
/usr/share/cbios/cbios_main_msx2_eu.rom
/usr/share/cbios/cbios_main_msx2_jp.rom
/usr/share/cbios/cbios_music.rom
/usr/share/cbios/cbios_sub.rom
/usr/share/doc/cbios
/usr/share/doc/cbios/cbios.txt
/usr/share/doc/cbios/chkram.txt

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cbios on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.