I was able to update the BIOS on my HP DX2300 (also a business-class Micro Tower) with so-called 'Microsoft only' tools.
I made a FreeDOS floppy and put the DOS AWFLASH executable with the BIOS *.bin file and it went great! Send me your Laptop details, and I'll send you a solution for updating the BIOS without Windows. .:====================================================:. Amichai Rotman UIN#: 6401746 Registered Linux User#: 201192 [http://counter.li.org/] Registered Ubuntu User #12851 [http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PLEASE READ: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ .:====================================================:. 2009/2/6 Ori Idan <o...@helicontech.co.il> > There is a BIOS update, however since I do not have windows on this > computer, I can not run it. > > -- > Ori Idan > > > On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotanco...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 2009/2/5 Ori Idan <o...@helicontech.co.il>: >> > It seems that the DoK solution is not good for me. >> > The computer I am trying to install on is IBM ThinkPad X31 and it seems >> that >> > it can't boot from DoK so although I have a working Ubuntu DoK I can not >> use >> > it for my computer. >> > Does anyone have any idea how can I install Ubuntu on this computer >> without >> > a CD? >> > The computer already has an old version of Debian running on it. >> > >> >> Have you searched for a BIOS update that would let you boot from USB? >> >> -- >> Dotan Cohen >> >> http://what-is-what.com >> http://gibberish.co.il >> >> א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת >> ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه-و-ي >> А-Б-В-Г-Д-Е-Ё-Ж-З-И-Й-К-Л-М-Н-О-П-Р-С-Т-У-Ф-Х-Ц-Ч-Ш-Щ-Ъ-Ы-Ь-Э-Ю-Я >> а-б-в-г-д-е-ё-ж-з-и-й-к-л-м-н-о-п-р-с-т-у-ф-х-ц-ч-ш-щ-ъ-ы-ь-э-ю-я >> ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > >
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