bootable cdrom for thinkpad T2x (t22) Re: [ltp] t22 battery replacement dead?

Bjørn Mork linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 26 Aug 2005 10:07:05 +0200


"David Smith" <dsmith@mypchelp.com> writes:

> On my t22 i used the windows util to update the bios..
>
> maybe you arent running windows.. is it just one disk? its real easy to
> use nero and virtual disk to turn a single bootable floppy image into a
> boot cd.

Its even easier using mkisofs and cdrecord:

 mkisofs -b floppy.img -c cat -o some.iso floppy.img
 cdrecord -v some.iso

The "floppy.img" can usually be extracted from IBMs *non-diskette*
BIOS updaters using cabextract.


Bjørn