At 01:39 17/05/99 -0400, you wrote:
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>From: Tom Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [expert] A very Good VGA Card- Recomend ? - Continued....
>> What occured to me doing this: How do people with Linux only
>> machines update BIOS'es? The whole process is DOS based and if you happen
>> to don't have any DOS around you are pi... bad off.
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>Isn't DR-DOS free? I know there is a free DOS somewhere out there.
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>How about dosemu? It comes with freedos, or something like that I think.
>Shouldn't that work?
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>I know the frustration you are talking about though. I needed to run the
>DOS-baed config program for my SMC 1650 NIC installed in a Linux-only box. I
>could have moved the NIC to my dual boot machine, but I placed the DOS
>system files on the SMC utility disk and made it bootable. Without DOS,
>though it would have been awkward to physically move the card, but what if I
>only had the one machine?
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>As long as I am here, does anyone know of a HOWTO that addresses an ftp
>install of Linux over a LAN? I have a box with a NIC and no CD-ROM drive. I
>would like to do the install from a CD-ROM drive on another machine on the
>LAN. Is there another way to do this? I tried to follow the prompts after I
>inserted the supplemental disk, but got nowhere.
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>Hoyt
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I always install off a local NFS machine - works like a charm
straight out of the box. Perhaps you could try that method?
ttfn
nick@nexnix
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