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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] MPlayer
  • Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 22:56:03 +0000 (UTC)

On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, David Moberg wrote:

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?

That is the latest one that I found, and they claim to have fixed the missing A S ^ i and , .


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.

Only if the machine will boot reliably, and for that I may need to flash the BIOS (or pay $140 for a new battery, forget it).



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.

Maybe DOS will work here.

_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?

First I have to find an appropriate update program. RAMdisk sounds easier to me.

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.
The batteries go into a different slot.

The Gateway laptop appears to use some sort of SCSI connection for connecting the floppy drive and CD-ROM drive. One of them is internal and the other external and you can switch the two. Then I have a Toshiba with an internal CD-ROM drive and external floppy drive. My brother's laptop takes either floppy or CD-ROM drive, internally only, like this one, so I will ask if he knows whether the connector is IDE.


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.


I will first try the RAMdisk approach and hope the upgrade program can run in DOS. This is assuming we can get it to boot again one more time.


David

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