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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 14:02:23 +0100
From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Flashing the BIOS
In-Reply-To: <200609131821.59790.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>
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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?
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Mick
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