[ltp] Bootable usb for bios upgrades

Yves-Alexis Perez linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:44:54 +0200


On mar, 2009-04-14 at 10:20 +0200, Ismael Olea wrote:
> Maybe you could upload somewhere your present working disk image for
> only downloading and copying the needed upgrade :-)

That should be doable, but two things need to happen first:

- the drive size is 1G: makebootfat creates the whole partition. This is
nice because one can just add the new files to the drive, but is not
really suited to share it on the web.
- I need to clarify the licences of the files I would be sharing. Not
really sure I can redistribute the files from Lenovo, and I guess the
kernel.sys and .bin files from FreeDOS and makebootfat are on a GPL-like
license, which means I need to provide the sources if I provide the
binaries.

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis