[Gllug] EPIA-M with 1GB of memory

John Winters john at sinodun.org.uk
Sat Jun 5 12:55:14 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 22:01, Mark Williams wrote:
> > There is actually a BIOS update.  Unfortunately the installer is a
> > .exe.  I'll have to see if there's a way to upgrade the BIOS from
> > Linux ...
> 
> You could use FreeDOS (see <URL: http://www.freedos.org/>) if you
> don't have an idealogical objection to using an implementation of DOS.
> I booted it over the network (from a Linux server) on my diskless
> EPIA-5000 to update the BIOS after abandoning the tortuous preparation
> to see if WINE would do it.

Can you give any pointers on the procedure you used to do this?  I have
a similar problem (diskless EPIA box) but completely failed to get
FreeDOS to boot.

TIA,
John

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