Dan Farrell wrote: > 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. >
I didn't know they were that cheap. Don't they require a OS though? I don't have windoze around here. ;-) Dale :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part.
