Re: bios update from cdrom
* Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org) [020817 20:31]:
> 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?
Got any friends... that run any variation of Windows ??
> 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.
FreeDOS has a website here, http://www.freedos.org/. I found boot floppy
images linked here,
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/beta8/instdisk/1.44/.
Hall
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