Re: [SLE] BIOS flashing

From: Graham Smith (gqs_at_westnet.com.au)
Date: 08/25/05

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Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 13:49:31 +1000

    On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 12:58, John Grant wrote:
    > I'm building a system from scratch and I've discovered that the MB
    > manufacturer has a BIOS update that I need to install. The manufacturer
    > says to use the Windows flashing program WinFlash or, failing that, make
    > a (MS)DOS bootable floppy, put the DOS-based awdflash utility and the
    > BIOS image on it, and boot from that.

    You could try freeDOS there are ISO's for boot CD's and floppys.

    http://www.freedos.org/
    http://www.freedos.org/freedos/files/ 

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Graham Smith
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