From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Flashing the BIOS
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 23:12:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200609162312.41726.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <450C5238.2090206@qrypto.org>
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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
> >> <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>
> >
> > 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 them did not even had to save the bios, if you
> >>> wanted to.
> >>>
> >>> But even if you have such a crazy flasher - that is, what the
> >>> dos-partition is made for. Just let it save the stuff to the harddisk.
> >>>
> >>> No floppy, no cry ;)
> >>
> >> What happens with the latest BIOS updates that some idiotic
> >> manufacturers only provide as WinXP executables?
> >
> > good luck, boy.
> >
> > At least my manufacturers provide dos flash, or dos&windows flash files.
> >
> > Maybe you should ask their support. Maybe the dos files are only hidden
> > very well
>
> Hi,
> Check if they aren't just a self-extract zip archive (unzip file.exe).
> Rumen
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.
========================================
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Regards,
Mick
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-13 1:23 [gentoo-user] Flashing the BIOS Grant
2006-09-13 2:05 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
[not found] ` <49bf44f10609121952y318bfefdhc4bbff8d539767f8@mail.gmail.com>
2006-09-13 3:03 ` Brett I. Holcomb
2006-09-13 16:21 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-09-16 13:02 ` Mick
2006-09-16 15:19 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-09-16 19:36 ` Rumen Yotov
2006-09-16 21:08 ` Erik
2006-09-16 22:12 ` Mick [this message]
2006-09-17 5:33 ` Iain Buchanan
2006-09-17 9:03 ` Mick
2006-09-26 12:32 ` Matteo Pillon
2006-09-26 14:35 ` Daniel da Veiga
2006-09-16 21:50 ` Friedrich Göpel
2006-09-16 22:34 ` Mick
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