[ltp] BIOS/Firmware Updates

[James Knott]

Sebastian Kapfer wrote:
> Hello List!
> 
> How do you guys update the firmware of your favourite mobile computer? 
> 
> I killed off Windows completely and had to go the long way of abusing
> the Bochs i386 emulator and a few old MS-DOS diskettes to create
> bootable diskette images which I then burned on a CD-RW to boot from (no
> diskette drive here). It works, and being a g33k it was fun to dive into
> DOS once again, but I wouldn't exactly call it convenient.
> 
> It would help a lot if IBM offered the pure diskette images (i.e.
> without the .EXE shell) as a download, but they probably fear to confuse
> their Windows users.
> 
> Is there a better way? Maybe some sort of program which can extract the
> images from the EXEs?
> 

IBM used to issue images, for use with the OS/2 & DOS "family mode" 
LOADDSKF utility.  In fact, I'm just downloading some now, to update an 
OS/2 system I've just installed.