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