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Duncan wrote: |
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> MSI isn't all that Linux friendly. When I was shopping for a dual Opteron |
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> board, I checked out the MSI site and rejected them because all the BIOS |
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> upgrades and etc were in MSWormOS executable format (probably self |
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> extracting zip), as was all the documentation. |
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FWIW, the newer files do seem to use .zip and .pdf (i only checked for |
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my mobo though K8T Neo2)-- so maybe your mail had a positive effect on |
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them? ;) Though I agree a freedos image to do the bios update would be |
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really nice... |
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BTW, unzip supports self-extracting (.exe) zip archives. |
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But I don't want this to turn into an MSI advertisement, I just wanted |
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to point out that they seem to have gotten better to when you checked |
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them out. |
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Marco |
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