On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 09:07 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 21:00 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 16 December 2009, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > >The last time I installed a new BIOS on a Dell Computer I used a floppy > > >disk. That is no longer an option. Could anyone explain how I can > > >accomplish this? Please be as detailed as you can describing the > > >procedure. > > > > Most bios these days are equipt to do that themselves from one of the more > > right hand option menu's. I have updated the bios on this asus motherboard > > several times now, by putting the new bios file on a usbkey & plugging it in. > > > > It will muddle along looking the system over for a while but its never failed > > to find it. It is also capable of saving the old bios back to that same key > > before you install the new one too. > > > > -- > > I don't understand you procedure. The BIOS file I downloaded is an .EXE > file. When I put on a usb drive and i insert it. It just sits there. If > I try to execute it it says it is looking for a zip file and can't find > it. What am I missing? What right hand menus are you talking about If all you have is an EXE file then grab yourself a freedos ISO (Dell used to provide them at least with N-series machines, if not it's under the GPL & a free download) and drop the EXE into the image and burn. Then you can boot freedos and run the update from there. I've done this for Dell, HP and IBM/Lenovo systems in the past. Dell also has a tool called biosdisk that appears to automate this process: http://linux.dell.com/biosdisk/ Dell also has a project called firmware tools to allow updating of BIOS and firmware images from within a booted Linux kernel: http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Oss/Firmware_Tools Seems to have been a bit quiet in the last few years so not sure what current status is. That page also has a link to: http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Tech/libsmbios_livecd Which gives another option - building a fedora liveCD to do the updates from (this uses the Firmware Tools stuff to do the update). Regards, Bryn. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
