Re: [newbie] Flashing BIOS under Linux?

2000-12-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 29 December 2000 01:36 pm, Vic wrote: But how can I run an .exe file in linux?? dos emulator don't work, it won't see any other files on the drive except the stupid little pre-installed idiotic stupid set of files already in there, so thats worthless dos emulator. I can't just copy

Re: [newbie] Flashing BIOS under Linux?

2000-12-30 Thread Meph Istopheles
Morning, But how can I run an .exe file in linux?? Only if the app is actually something that runs in Linux. The extensions, in most cases in Linux, are arbitrary. In this case, not likely. But again, if you can find a way to get it to floppy, you may have a chance. If it's not

Re: [newbie] Flashing BIOS under Linux?

2000-12-29 Thread Meph Istopheles
Hey Vic, Well I could use wine to run the .exe file or I could dd an image to a floppy--- I would prefer to dd an image file if possible. Any chance that's a dos, as opposed to a Win, executable? Like After running the extraction exe for my bios, there was a readme, an exe something

Re: [newbie] Flashing BIOS under Linux?

2000-12-29 Thread Vic
But how can I run an .exe file in linux?? dos emulator don't work, it won't see any other files on the drive except the stupid little pre-installed idiotic stupid set of files already in there, so thats worthless dos emulator. I can't just copy the .exe file onto a blank floppy, it won't boot

Re: [newbie] Flashing BIOS under Linux?

2000-12-27 Thread civileme
On Tuesday 26 December 2000 20:20, you wrote: On Tuesday 26 December 2000 12:49 pm, Vic wrote: Can it be done or will I need to make a dos boot disc? I have only Linux on here, no dos or windows. Depends on the bios vendor which means you'll almost certainly need to boot DOS.

[newbie] Flashing BIOS under Linux?

2000-12-26 Thread Vic
Can it be done or will I need to make a dos boot disc? I have only Linux on here, no dos or windows. Thanks again Vic

Re: [newbie] Flashing BIOS under Linux?

2000-12-26 Thread Jim Dawson
All of the flash-BIOS utilities I know of require a DOS (or Windows 9x) boot disk. If you don't have a copy of DOS you can download DR-DOS for free (noncommercial use only) from ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/devsup/drdos/dr703.exe However you need to be able to run DOS to execute the

RE: [newbie] Flashing BIOS under Linux?

2000-12-26 Thread Kelly, Christopher
May I ask why you need to flash the Bios? Chris Kelly Linux user #185775 -Original Message- From: Jim Dawson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2000 2:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Flashing BIOS under Linux? All of the flash-BIOS utilities I

Re: [newbie] Flashing BIOS under Linux?

2000-12-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 26 December 2000 12:49 pm, Vic wrote: Can it be done or will I need to make a dos boot disc? I have only Linux on here, no dos or windows. Depends on the bios vendor which means you'll almost certainly need to boot DOS.http://bootdisk.com -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Flashing BIOS under Linux?

2000-12-26 Thread Michael R. Batchelor
Can it be done or will I need to make a dos boot disc? I have only Linux on here, no dos or windows. That's pretty much determined by the MoBo manufacturer. We're talking about hard core down in nuts and bolts hardware here. Way, way, way before any OS gets involved in the picture. You'll just

Re: [newbie] flashing bios

2000-01-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, Hidong Kim wrote: Hi, I just downloaded the bios upgrade for my asus vx-97 from the asus site. The machine I have is pure Linux, no Windows. How do I flash the bios? Thanks, Can you get your hands on a DOS boot disk? ;-) IF so, just use the DOS boot disk and then

Re: [newbie] flashing bios

2000-01-01 Thread Sam Walker
PM, John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] flashing bios: On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, Hidong Kim wrote: Hi, I just downloaded the bios upgrade for my asus vx-97 from the asus site. The machine I have is pure Linux, no Windows. How do I flash the bios? Thanks, Can