Re: bios update from cdrom
On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 05:14:29PM -0700, Michael West wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 03:11:38AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 03:17:17PM -0700, Michael West wrote:
> > > I do not have a floppy drive and have not felt the need for one
> > > until now.
> > >
> > > How to I update my bios without a floppy? Can I use El Torito for
> > > this? My current bios supports El Torito (SP?)
> >
> > That's how I did it when the kids machine lacked a floppy, I put a Win85
> > boot floppy on CD. You can even use 2.88Meg floppy images.
>
> Thanks,
> Any idea where I can get a Win85 (sic) floppy image?
>
> I only ran windows 3 months before I switched to linux and
> never had a boot floppy.
The last time I had to do this, I used a FreeDOS boot floppy, and it ran
the BIOS update program fine. Try googling for "FreeDOS boot floppy" and
you should be able to find some pre-built ones - the third hit (for
XOSL) looks good, although I forget where I got the version I used.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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