Dan Farrell wrote:
> On Wed, 16 May 2007 09:54:09 -0500
> Dale <dalek@exceedtech.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>     
>>> On Wed, 16 May 2007 09:21:41 -0500, Dale wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Now that most puters don't have a floppy, how will people update
>>>> the BIOS??  I don't have windoze at all and my next rig may not
>>>> have a floppy either.
>>>>         
>>> My new Asus motherboard updates from a USB stick.
>>>       
>
>   
>> LOL  I don't have one of those either.  Just my luck.  At least they
>> are looking ahead though. 
>>     
>
>   
>> Dale
>>     
>
> USB sticks are virtually worthless nowadays, for a couple tens of
> dollars you should be able to get one with a capacity of a few gigs.  
>
> There's also the possibility of writing directly to the cmos
> with /dev/nvram, isn't there?  It's a character device driver in the
> kernel.  
>   

I didn't know they were that cheap.  Don't they require a OS though?  I
don't have windoze around here.  ;-)

Dale

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