On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 2:17 AM, Mogens Kjaer <mk at lemo.dk> wrote: > On 04/30/2013 09:34 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > > Yeah, assuming you're running Windows.... > > Do you have access to any Windows machine? > Only for making the floppy or other image. > > Then you can run the SP53272.exe file on that, it will give you the > possibility to burn a bootable CD with the firmware code. > For kicks, I downloaded a BIOS update for an old(er) HP system I own... While you run the software on Windows, it is a FreeDOS bootable floppy image. Now that I've got a bootable floppy, I clone it with dd to an image file and I could PXE boot it. I'm not quite sure why HP didn't just make a floppy image and distribute that back then. I keep a USB floppy drive and one Windows system (dual boot laptop) around just in case for situations like this. > > If you don't have a CD burner on the Windows machine you can > transfer the .iso file from the directory that was created > when the SP53272.exe is unpacked, it will be in > "ROMPaq CD/ROMPAQ.iso". > > You don't need Windows on the dl580. > > Mogens > > > > -- > Mogens Kjaer, mk at lemo.dk > http://www.lemo.dk > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- ---~~.~~--- Mike // SilverTip257 //