My bios allows me to use a usb thumb drive, but I don't know how common that is.
On 9/16/06, Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Saturday 16 September 2006 15:02, Mick wrote: >> On 13/09/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >>> On Wednesday 13 September 2006 05:03, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: >>>> Most BIOS programs save the existing BIOS so they need somewhere to >>>> write to. >>> I never encountered a bios flasher that forced me to save the bios >>> somewhere. A lot of them did not even had to save the bios, if you wanted >>> to. >>> >>> But even if you have such a crazy flasher - that is, what the >>> dos-partition is made for. Just let it save the stuff to the harddisk. >>> >>> No floppy, no cry ;) >> What happens with the latest BIOS updates that some idiotic >> manufacturers only provide as WinXP executables? > > good luck, boy. > > At least my manufacturers provide dos flash, or dos&windows flash files. > > Maybe you should ask their support. Maybe the dos files are only hidden very > well Hi, Check if they aren't just a self-extract zip archive (unzip file.exe). Rumen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
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