On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 11:35:07AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hi,
I need to upgrade my BIOS.
Generally it seems to involve getting freedos and putting it on a floppy
with the updates.
Googling isn't clear on recent reports.
Has anyone done this lately and specifically how?
I've only done it once and that was on my new Asus M2N-SLI that has a
bios utility built right in to allow you to save the bios and update a
new one. No dos required at all, just the bios image on a floppy or USB
stick (or on a MS partition on a hard drive).
However, for my friend Justin Case, I still have dos 6.3. I used dd to
create floppy images and can make them whenever I need to.
Unfortunatly, since 6.3 isn't public domain, I can't email it to you.
When _does_ the licence on things like an old dos floppy expire or is it
like Shakespear, 100 years after IBM (its IBM dos) dies?
Doug.