[ltp] BIOS/Firmware Updates

[Moritz Heiber]

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On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 12:25:13 +0100 (MET)
Szakacsits Szabolcs <szaka@sienet.hu> wrote:

> 
> On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Sebastian Kapfer wrote:
> 
> > 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). 
> 
> No need for diskette drive or CD to boot DOS floppies. You can boot it
> straight from the harddisk using Grub/LILO and MEMDISK from SYSLINUX.
> E.g. LILO entries to boot a DOS diskette image can be done as
> 
> image=/boot/memdisk
>         label="DOS"
>         initrd=/boot/floppy-img.bin
> 
> > It would help a lot if IBM offered the pure diskette images (i.e.
> 
> Agree. IBM's service is excellent, just things are sometimes archaic,
> inefficient and don't work at all. 
> 
> 	Szaka

Hello Szaka,

do you actually know from where I may get floppy images with the latest
BIOS updates on it preferable for my R40? ;-)

If not I'm just going to write an email to IBM and ask for them ..

Regards,

Moritz

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