Dear both again I should also say that 1) the BIOS upgrade file size is 1950KB 2) I have an external floppy drive but might not have floppies, I will search 3) I have an external USB CD/DVD reader/writer, that usually needs both of its 2 USB cables to power it when burning 4) There is some sort of 32/64 bit issue with this laptop I have never understood. The version of Kubuntu 18.04 is 64 bit. When I download an installation file for another programme, one that says it does 32 and 64, the output to screen says that the 32 bit version is being installed. 5) I do not have zip or LS120 drives
Just seen Tom's contribution. Does the file size support that theory. Even without the file size supporting the theory, it is plausible. Thanks again Stephanos On 09/04/2021 14:07, Michael Christopher Robinson wrote:
A couple of questions, what model DELL laptop are you trying to update the BIOS on? What level of Windows or even MSDOS for that matter was the laptop originally designed to run? Clearly, this laptop has some USB so I'm guessing those are probably two USB 1.1 ports and I'm thinking the laptop is some kind of Pentium I. Do you by chance have one of those ancient Zip100 drives and a readable Zip 50 or Zip 100 disk? You would need the USB and not the parallel port model most likely and I know for a fact that if you use the guest.exe program in any DOS environment including FreeDOS 1.3 that you can get what you need done using any external zip drive even if it's a USB one. If you have any external LS120 drive and at least one good 1.44MB floppy disk or LS120 disk that will write, you can use that as well and I'd say IMHO that LS120 drives are far better to have around than Zip drives because they can read and write 1.44MB high density floppies whereas Zip drives can't read any standard floppy and a Zip 750 cannot work with Zip 50, 100, or 250 disks except if you are lucky you might be able to read them. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
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