From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GOiVY-00023y-2W for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 22:19:32 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8GMIX88015389; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 22:18:33 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.170]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8GM9jRC018317 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 22:09:45 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id p27so258744ugc for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 15:09:45 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=SEir29t/DSy+w0HrIAns8lN7qyoqYc2qDQ6feTy+EeNUhddnrxKx9dJALrQU1gJsGfQmGQxTdHXZjfRAEHoj8fQuMUGogSFxWj+fZ8ZIEPssLlAfflfkMBLONJQcHkBKtDdhb9/ITfX2qslDZkcUnRYjXZdq588H/n+KtSpNfPM= Received: by 10.67.29.12 with SMTP id g12mr6234219ugj; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 15:09:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.5? ( [213.162.120.196]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id w40sm1535815ugc.2006.09.16.15.09.44; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 15:09:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Flashing the BIOS Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 23:12:20 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <49bf44f10609121823g32524a67tb63effc6f97ac73e@mail.gmail.com> <200609161719.52679.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <450C5238.2090206@qrypto.org> In-Reply-To: <450C5238.2090206@qrypto.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1886105.zvJJNbUOLk"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200609162312.41726.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 2f4b96a7-3b8f-4fb3-9319-e89fd1a763b5 X-Archives-Hash: ca5631237412557979003df352851b1b --nextPart1886105.zvJJNbUOLk Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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 > >> > > > > 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: =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D # unzip SP27128.exe.part unzip: cannot find or open SP27128.exe.part, SP27128.exe.part.zip or=20 SP27128.exe.part.ZIP. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1886105.zvJJNbUOLk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBFDHbZ5Fp0QerLYPcRAgA4AKCqc744JCROizexUVs4onNTXuQsZACdG+MJ 3o075gVELWQAOe1xBdNUjQk= =Tz0Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1886105.zvJJNbUOLk-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list