[ltp] how to upgrade BIOS without a floppy reader?

[Thomas Marquart]

> how to upgrade BIOS without a floppy reader?
> anyone succeeded?
Yes, I recently upgrades the BIOS of my R40. I have no floppy either.
I used the windows-executable from IBM and ran it under WinXP :(

Without win-partition you could try to use a selfmade bootable CD
instead of the floppy, IIRC one has to make an "El Torito" boot image
which is nothing more than a floppy image and put it on the CD. gcombust
e.g. has a field where to put it.
But I never tried this, so I may be wrong.

BTW, I wrote down my experiences with Debian on my R40 here:
http://tom.uni-hd.de/thinkpad-r40.html

greetings
thomas
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