Hallo Herr Eric Auer, am Freitag, 9. April 2021 um 18:04 schrieben Sie:
> Hi Stephanos, >> 1) I have WINE on my laptop and run several MS applications. Is it safe >> to treat the BIOS upgrade file as an application and run it in WINE? > That will not help. Wine can run Windows apps, but you want to update > the BIOS in your real hardware, not inside a Wine window on Linux. >> 2) I could install DOS Box, which is new to me, I have the same >> question, is it safe? > It is safe but will not solve your problem. You want to update the > BIOS in your real hardware, not inside a DOSBOX window on Linux. >> 3) Is running a version of Windows, 7 perhaps, in VMWare, and then >> executing the BIOS upgrade file feasible and safe. > It is safe but will not solve your problem. You want to update the > BIOS in your real hardware, not inside a simulated VMWare PC window. >> If I cannot do above and cannot get my head around burning images to >> memory stick, then I will revert to removing Kubuntu, installing Win 7, >> running the BIOS upgrade file, praying. > It would be a lot more complicated to install Windows on your entire > computer than to install FreeDOS on a little USB stick, no? It is safe but will not solve your problem. The BIOS updater .EXE is a Windows program, and will only run on Windows. ask a friend with a Windows 10 PC to run recoverydrive.exe this will create in a few seconds a bootable USB stick with some sort of reduced Windows and should run your updater.exe. Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
