[mdlug] Help Updating Asus BIOS Using Afudos

[Peter Bart]

On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 14:31:15 GMT
"gib at juno.com" <gib at juno.com> wrote:

> You guys really should come to some of our meetings so you can show
> us this stuff.
> 
> ---------- Original Message ----------
> From: Peter Bart <petertheplumber at att.net>
> To: Metro Detroit Linux Users Group <mdlug at mdlug.org>
> Subject: Re: [mdlug] Help Updating Asus BIOS Using Afudos
> Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 05:32:59 -0400
> 
> On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 23:15:11 -0400
> Jeff Hanson <jhansonxi at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Peter Bart <petertheplumber at att.net>
> > wrote:
> > > I'm not sure exactly what part it plays but it's provided by
> > > <http://www.freedos.org/>.
> > 
> > I have a loopback mounted floppy image of FreeDOS on my server that
> > I can netboot over PXE.  It's writable so I can just copy the ROM
> > image and update utility to it and then netboot the target to get a
> > FreeDOS prompt.  Saves from having to connect a floppy drive to the
> > target.
> 
> Why didn't you say so?!? Make me go through all this by myself ;)
> 

    I'll make a point of it if there's interest.

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Best Regards,

Peter The Plumber
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