BIOS Flashing w/out a Floppy

[Bill Campbell]

On Sun, Dec 25, 2005, Kurt Wall wrote:
>On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 04:54:28PM -0800, Bill Campbell took 27 lines to write:
>> On Sun, Dec 25, 2005, Kurt Wall wrote:
>> >Hello, all,
>> >
>> >I wanted to update the BIOS on my computer but faced a problem: no
>> >floppy drive and no DOS or Windows. Almost all of the BIOS flashing
>> >programs require either a floppy or DOS/Windows or both because the
>> >flashing programs run from DOS (uniflash notwithstanding -- see
>> >http://uniflash.org/). Fortunately, smarter people than me worked out 
>> >the details. Here are the general steps -- I'll write it up as an SxS 
>> >this evening -- which presumes you have boot-capable CD-ROM:
>> 
>> Might this be possible/easier using a USB floppy or bootable USB flash?
>
>Yes. I haven't a USB floppy, though, I don't know if my USB SD/CF cards are
>bootable, that is, if my PC will boot from them.

I originally had to buy a USB floppy about three years ago when I couldn't
transfer the Windows TurboTax file to the OS X version (in spite of what
the TT docs said).  Since then, I've been using it to load the info file
for SuSE autoyast installs when booting from the CD.

Bill
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