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Re: bios update from cdrom



Hall Stevenson wrote:

* 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/.

Or just go to www.bootdisk.com. They've got more boot images than you can shake a stick at. :) And lots of CD boot images as well. (They've even got debian boot disks. :)

-Alex





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