I'm trying to update the BIOS on my Dell Latitude E5410. The only firmware files I can download from Dell come in .exe format. I have installed 'dellBiosUpdate-compat' which works with a .hdr file, not an .exe file.
I've installed Wine on that machine (aside: despite the disclaimer on the SlackBuilds.org web site, Wine builds, installs, and runs using the multilib and 32-bit-compat libraries), but it won't run the .exe file and neither will dellBiosUpdate-compat. I thought that perhaps the .exe was a self-extracting archive, but it's not and will not produce the .hdr file with a Windows version of unzip.exe under Wine. For those of you working in a multi-boot environment and knowledgeable of Windows, is there a way to extract a .hdr file from these .exe files, or do I need to beg Dell for the proper format? Dell does have a directory of .hdr files, but not for the ID 0x0429 that is my machine; they have 0x0420 and 0x043c files. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
