Re: [gentoo-user] Flashing the BIOS

[Matteo Pillon <matteo.pillon@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 10:03:38AM +0100, Mick wrote:
> Thanks Iain, you're right.  I redownloaded and tried again - but it's not a 
> zipped archive:
> =========================================
> # unzip SP27128.exe
> Archive:  SP27128.exe
>   End-of-central-directory signature not found.  Either this file is not
>   a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive.  In the
>   latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
>   the last disk(s) of this archive.
> unzip:  cannot find zipfile directory in one of SP27128.exe or
>         SP27128.exe.zip, and cannot find SP27128.exe.ZIP, period.
> =========================================
> 
> That message is pretty categorical I think.

I thinks this is an update made with installshield (frow HP, I guess).
Try extracting files from it with:
   app-arch/unshield
      Latest version available: 0.5
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of files: 318 kB
      Homepage:      http://synce.sourceforge.net/synce/unshield.php
      Description:   InstallShield CAB file extractor.
      License:       MIT

Bye.

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