Take a look at http://bootdisk.com/ They should have a boot disk you can put the exe on to run it.
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 13:16, justin gedge wrote: > Tyler Strickland wrote: > > On 08/30/2005 12:28 PM, Tyler Strickland wrote: > > > Have you tried upgrading your kernel? Your bios? > > > How do you update the bios? I've got Version F.17 and HP shows a > version F.19 on their site-- the problem is that all they provide is an > exe file that needs to be run under winXP-- after wrestling dual boot > issues for a few days I decided it wasn't worth the hastle and the > wasted partition. Anyone have suggestions on how to do this? > > back in the days of win9x I could do all this stuff jsut fine-- but I've > been able to avoid any serious work in the windows world for 5+ years > [it's been kind of nice actually]. But anyways-- in win9x-- I would > have made a basic boot floppy or something like that to get a command > prompt and just run the exe from there-- > > now-- I'm not sure where to begin-- I've got a winXP distro disk-- but > that doesn't want to give me a command prompt [does it?] It just wants > to install the whole mess. Is there a light weight version of XP like a > bootable cd-rom that could load up and let me run this? > > Justin Gedge > > .-----------------------------------. > | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | > | Don't Fear the Penguin. | > | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | > `-----------------------------------' -- Peter Howe Technical Services and integration Team Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Nuvek - New Vision in Technology Phone:(801) 492-1220 http://www.nuvek.com .-----------------------------------. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `-----------------------------------'
