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Dan Farrell wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Wed, 16 May 2007 09:54:09 -0500
Dale <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dalek@exceedtech.net"><dalek@exceedtech.net></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Neil Bothwick wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Wed, 16 May 2007 09:21:41 -0500, Dale wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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.
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<pre wrap="">My new Asus motherboard updates from a USB stick.
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<pre wrap="">LOL I don't have one of those either. Just my luck. At least they
are looking ahead though.
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<pre wrap="">Dale
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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.
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I didn't know they were that cheap. Don't they require a OS though? I
don't have windoze around here. ;-)<br>
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Dale<br>
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:-) :-) :-)<br>
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