[CentOS] flashing a BIOS on an HP server

had to do this last week on a dell something or other....
after way too much failed trial-and-error, here is what i did:

  $ bunzip2 Downloads/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img.bz2
  $ sudo dd if=Downloads/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img of=/dev/sdb
  * unplug/plug *
  $ cp Downloads/O380-A07.exe /media/FREEDOS1~1A/
  * reboot *

steven tardy