[TriLUG] a 'non-windows' method to upgrade BIOS/firmware?

[Douglas Kojetin]

I ended up ripping (literally) the old Dell case apart, taking out the  
DVD drive, and inserting it into a new Dell system w/ WinXP on it (what  
a pain).

I found this little tidbit by searching google:
http://forum.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php? 
s=1a00354c56b7866def803cfe2d9710e6&threadid=80881&highlight=linux+firmwa 
re

Quotes:

"I read the rewiew of the 411s by OC-Freak which says that it writes  
anything (including -R) extremely well. He also says that firmware  
before FS0F was bad."

"I had heard that earlier versions of the 411S firmware wrote to -R and  
-RW discs in a strange manner. The tracs did not even look like those  
produced by other burners cabable of -R and -RW."

I was using FS02, and I'm upgrading to FS0H now ... hopefully it'll do  
the trick!






On Jan 30, 2004, at 12:13 PM, Timothy A. Chagnon wrote:

> I've heard of people running win98 in ramdisk on diskless nodes, but
> what i've found googling "windows 98 diskless" says you need to do the
> install on a real drive first, so this doesn't really help.  Until M$
> goes OSS and people can make Win LiveCDs (ie hell freezes over) looks
> like you need to dig up an old hard drive and punish yourself for a
> couple hours.