If you need a reliable flashing environment right now, you can use any
bootable USB Linux with a flashrom opensource flashing tool - which
could be installed as easily as a simple "sudo apt-get install
flashrom" command (for Linux Mint). And then, if your board supports
the internal flashing mode
Hi, thanks for your reply.
I understood. I will explore that way.
That "drivers could interfere with the flashing process" is new to me. Of
course in the past -when floppies were still a common thing- I have always
upgraded my BIOSes via win98 boot floppy. I already installed FreeDOS 1.3
RC4 on
Wow!
That flashrom thing had gone under my radar. I see that my motherboard is
OK (MSI MS-7255 - P4M890M, including southbridge VIA VT8237A) but can't
find the BIOS chip as supported hardware.
Very interesting, thank you very much. However, as dealing with flashrom
would be off-topic here, I'm
Jerome,
Recompression is something that will be considered for the next version of
> the repository management utilities.
>
Your insight is appreciated. I saw the earlier discussion about media size
and wanted to point out that there are savings available now at nearly zero
cost.
SLICER is
Eric,
I suggest a much shorter algorithm: Simply apply
> advzip with the "recompress" option to the ZIP
> files :-)
If you do this on freedos/files/repositories/latest today, then you'll get:
2,586,758,742 bytes, original total ZIP size
2,535,458,056 bytes, after `advzip -k -p -z -3 `
