Re: [gentoo-user] Flashing the BIOS

2006-09-26 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 9/17/06, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 23:12 +0100, Mick wrote: > Thanks. I tried unzipping it, but no go: > > # unzip SP27128.exe.part > unzip: cannot find or open SP27128.exe.part, SP27128.exe.part.zip or > SP27128.e

Re: [gentoo-user] Flashing the BIOS

2006-09-26 Thread Matteo Pillon
Hi, On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 10:03:38AM +0100, Mick wrote: > Thanks Iain, you're right. I redownloaded and tried again - but it's not a > zipped archive: > = > # unzip SP27128.exe > Archive: SP27128.exe > End-of-central-directory signature not found. Ei

Re: [gentoo-user] Flashing the BIOS

2006-09-17 Thread Mick
On Sunday 17 September 2006 06:33, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 23:12 +0100, Mick wrote: > > Thanks. I tried unzipping it, but no go: > > > > # unzip SP27128.exe.part > > unzip: cannot find or open SP27128.exe.part, SP27128.exe.part.zip or

Re: [gentoo-user] Flashing the BIOS

2006-09-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 23:12 +0100, Mick wrote: > Thanks. I tried unzipping it, but no go: > > # unzip SP27128.exe.part > unzip: cannot find or open SP27128.exe.part, SP27128.exe.part.zip or > SP27128.exe.part.ZIP. > ===

Re: [gentoo-user] Flashing the BIOS

2006-09-16 Thread Mick
On Saturday 16 September 2006 22:50, Friedrich Göpel wrote: > On 14:02 Sat 16 Sep , Mick wrote: > > On 13/09/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > What happens with the latest BIOS updates that some idiotic > > manufacturers only provide as WinXP executables? > > I had th

Re: [gentoo-user] Flashing the BIOS

2006-09-16 Thread Mick
On Saturday 16 September 2006 20:36, Rumen Yotov 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Flashing the BIOS

2006-09-16 Thread Friedrich Göpel
On 14:02 Sat 16 Sep , Mick wrote: > On 13/09/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > What happens with the latest BIOS updates that some idiotic > manufacturers only provide as WinXP executables? I had that problem with my burner because for some reason the dos tools flat out

Re: [gentoo-user] Flashing the BIOS

2006-09-16 Thread Erik
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Flashing the BIOS

2006-09-16 Thread Rumen Yotov
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 t

Re: [gentoo-user] Flashing the BIOS

2006-09-16 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Flashing the BIOS

2006-09-16 Thread Mick
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 t

Re: [gentoo-user] Flashing the BIOS

2006-09-13 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
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 e

Re: [gentoo-user] Flashing the BIOS

2006-09-12 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Most BIOS programs save the existing BIOS so they need somewhere to write to. On Tuesday September 12 2006 22:52, Grant wrote: > > > How do you guys flash your BIOS to a new version? Are you all digging > > > up floppy drives? > > > > > > - Grant > > > > no I turn my swap-partition into a dos-par

Re: [gentoo-user] Flashing the BIOS

2006-09-12 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 03:23, Grant wrote: > How do you guys flash your BIOS to a new version? Are you all digging > up floppy drives? > > - Grant no I turn my swap-partition into a dos-partition, but all the bios stuff onto it, boot from a freedos cd and flash the bios/firmware. If I t

[gentoo-user] Flashing the BIOS

2006-09-12 Thread Grant
How do you guys flash your BIOS to a new version? Are you all digging up floppy drives? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list