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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

sindi keesan wrote:

> Will you wait for 1.0 uClibc to compile against uClibc again?

For MPlayer? I will wait until it will actually build against
uClibc without problems. The libc size difference isn't much,
because MPlayer is so large in itself.

> My partner would still like the most recent dosemu for BL2 or BL3.

OK. I will do this sometime. 1.32, right?

> How will a CD-based linux let us flash the BIOS with a 2MB .exe file?

I don't think it will. It is more useful for using MPlayer.

> Are there linux-based BIOS upgrade programs for Award BIOS (2A or 
> earlier)?  It has to be later than about April 2000.

I think the BIOS update programs are always for a Microsoft operating
system.

> _WE_ are missing something - a hard drive and an enclosure for it.  
> The problem is how to run a 2MB .exe file with no hard drive, from 
> DOS.  I was hoping we could set up a RAM disk in DOS and transfer 
> the file to it and run it from RAMdisk (assuming we get the correct 
> update program)

You could do that. Parallel port? Or burn the update program to a
CD, along with a bootable DOS that reads CDs?

> > The pinout is likely completely different. Laptops are proprietary
> > to the extreme. If you can plug it in, it should be IDE.
> 
> If you can plug in the floppy drive or the DVD drive into the same 
> slot, I doubt it is IDE, so there goes that idea.

Why not? Usually, the floppy is not IDE, but all of the drives are.
You can sometimes plug batteries into the same slot.

> Other people have used CD-ROM linux because they did not have a 
> floppy drive - has anyone used it instead of a hard drive?

Yes.

> I read that you can buy a new ROM and burn the BIOS to that.  Could 
> we move the BIOS ROM to some other computer and upgrade it from 
> hard drive there?  Or would it have to be the same motherboard to 
> run that program?

It probably won't even fit in another computer. If it does, it
might not even work. But you can try it. Make sure that it plugs
in correctly, or the chip (and maybe other things) will fry.

David

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