On Wed, 16 May 2007 09:54:09 -0500 Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Wed, 16 May 2007 09:21:41 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> Now that most puters don't have a floppy, how will people update > >> the BIOS?? I don't have windoze at all and my next rig may not > >> have a floppy either. > > My new Asus motherboard updates from a USB stick.
> LOL I don't have one of those either. Just my luck. At least they > are looking ahead though. > Dale USB sticks are virtually worthless nowadays, for a couple tens of dollars you should be able to get one with a capacity of a few gigs. There's also the possibility of writing directly to the cmos with /dev/nvram, isn't there? It's a character device driver in the kernel. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
