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Am Montag, 16. April 2012, 03:14:15 schrieb Grant: |
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> I'm amazed this is so difficult but I've just spent 3 hours trying to |
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> update the BIOS on my Dell XPS 13 and hit nothing but dead ends. The |
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> root of the problem seems to be that the 4MB BIOS update file is too |
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> large for the available 1.44MB DOS boot disks. Apparently FreeDOS had |
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> a LiveCD available at some point but it has reportedly been |
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> unavailable for quite some time. |
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> The following method looks promising but it also doesn't work. DOS |
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> can't seem to execute the .exe file which sits outside of the boot |
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> image: |
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> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/FreeDOS_Flash_Drive |
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> Does anyone know how to do this? |
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> - Grant |
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download systemrescuecd |
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install it on a usb stick |
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systemrescuecd has freedos 'on board', boot into freedos, flash. |
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