On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:11 AM, <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Now, on an HP support list, someone left a message over the weekend that I
> should do a BIOS update... except all I can find is a DOS .exe to do it,
> *and* there's a comment about needing to install previous BIOS updates....
> You don't happen to know if I do need to install the previous update?
>
> mark, looking into a freedos USB key solution....
>
Or set up a PXE server with a freedos floppy image. Use memdisk to load
the floppy image into memory. [0] [1]
I've uncompressed and loopback mounted a freedos image and then added bios
updating utilities my image(s). Unmount and re-compress the image if you
like. It is possible to boot a compressed (gzip only?) image via memdisk
for the record.
[0] http://raftaman.net/?p=491
[1] http://blog.mozilla.org/jv/2011/01/07/pxe-booting-dos/
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