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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Flashing the BIOS
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 22:19:32
Message-Id: 200609162312.41726.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Flashing the BIOS by Rumen Yotov
1 On Saturday 16 September 2006 20:36, Rumen Yotov wrote:
2 > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
3 > > On Saturday 16 September 2006 15:02, Mick wrote:
4 > >> On 13/09/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin
5 > >> <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de>
6 > >
7 > > wrote:
8 > >>> On Wednesday 13 September 2006 05:03, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
9 > >>>> Most BIOS programs save the existing BIOS so they need somewhere to
10 > >>>> write to.
11 > >>>
12 > >>> I never encountered a bios flasher that forced me to save the bios
13 > >>> somewhere. A lot of them did not even had to save the bios, if you
14 > >>> wanted to.
15 > >>>
16 > >>> But even if you have such a crazy flasher - that is, what the
17 > >>> dos-partition is made for. Just let it save the stuff to the harddisk.
18 > >>>
19 > >>> No floppy, no cry ;)
20 > >>
21 > >> What happens with the latest BIOS updates that some idiotic
22 > >> manufacturers only provide as WinXP executables?
23 > >
24 > > good luck, boy.
25 > >
26 > > At least my manufacturers provide dos flash, or dos&windows flash files.
27 > >
28 > > Maybe you should ask their support. Maybe the dos files are only hidden
29 > > very well
30 >
31 > Hi,
32 > Check if they aren't just a self-extract zip archive (unzip file.exe).
33 > Rumen
34
35 Thanks. I tried unzipping it, but no go:
36 ========================================
37 # unzip SP27128.exe.part
38 unzip: cannot find or open SP27128.exe.part, SP27128.exe.part.zip or
39 SP27128.exe.part.ZIP.
40 ========================================
41 --
42 Regards,
43 Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Flashing the BIOS Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>