Re: Retrieving a bios updater from ibm.com
Andrew Malcolmson wrote: > Peter, how will you run it? Do you have a Windows dual-boot on this > machine? > > I just wiped out the Vista partition on my T61 by attempting a resize > with gparted (Vista's own reisize feature wouldn't resize more than a > few GB and no amount of fiddling with settings changed this). Therefore > I'd like to know how BIOS updates can be done under Linux alone. The one update I've done (from Lenovo) came as a bootable ISO image. Just burn it to a CD, boot up from it, and run the BIOS update. - Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Retrieving a bios updater from ibm.com
Peter Crawford wrote: From: ch...@mretc.net Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:35:54 -0700 wget ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/spsdks45.exe Yes, direct FTP works in milliseconds. Thanks, ... p. crawford Peter, how will you run it? Do you have a Windows dual-boot on this machine? I just wiped out the Vista partition on my T61 by attempting a resize with gparted (Vista's own reisize feature wouldn't resize more than a few GB and no amount of fiddling with settings changed this). Therefore I'd like to know how BIOS updates can be done under Linux alone. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
RE: Retrieving a bios updater from ibm.com
> From: ch...@mretc.net > Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:35:54 -0700 > wget ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/spsdks45.exe Yes, direct FTP works in milliseconds. Thanks, ... p. crawford _ Drag n’ drop—Get easy photo sharing with Windows Live™ Photos. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/photos.aspx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Retrieving a bios updater from ibm.com
Peter Crawford wrote: > Does anyone have a clever way to retrieve file > spsdks45.exe which has a link on this page? > > http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-4MCKB8.html > > Iceweasel in Lenny is here. > After I agree to the conditions of use, > transfer appears to happen but no record > is left of the file. Iceweasel downloaded it fine for me (I didn't have to agree to anything). You could try using wget from the command line: wget ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/spsdks45.exe - Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Retrieving a bios updater from ibm.com
Does anyone have a clever way to retrieve file spsdks45.exe which has a link on this page? http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-4MCKB8.html Iceweasel in Lenny is here. After I agree to the conditions of use, transfer appears to happen but no record is left of the file. Thanks, ... p. crawford _ Drag n’ drop—Get easy photo sharing with Windows Live™ Photos. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/photos.aspx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
