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Date:      Mon, 29 Oct 2012 23:51:16 +0100
From:      Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To:        Jakub Lach <jakub_lach@mailplus.pl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain
Message-ID:  <20121029235116.6bbaafd6.freebsd@edvax.de>
In-Reply-To: <1351550659119-5756381.post@n5.nabble.com>
References:  <201210191038.q9JAcmq7073341@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <1351550659119-5756381.post@n5.nabble.com>

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On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:44:19 -0700 (PDT), Jakub Lach wrote:
> More civilised notebook manufactures usually provide 
> also self booting (CD) image to update BIOS 
> (e.g. Lenovo/ThinkPad). 

I've recently heared (but not verified) that some
manufacturers provide floppy disk images that can
be used with floppies (if you have them) utilizing
a USB floppy disk drive to boot (selectable as boot
source at system startup). This way you don't waste
650 MB, only 1.44 MB for this one-time use... :-)



-- 
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...



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