<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 16, 2008 11:20 PM, John Summerfield <<a href="mailto:debian@herakles.homelinux.org">debian@herakles.homelinux.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Michael A. Peters wrote:<br><br>><br>> That's a bit of a problem for me, I do not have windows, and this is NOT<br>> the kind of task I would expect to work in wine (though I may be wrong,
<br>> I kind of doubt it would).<br><br></div>This doesn't answer the question, but it does address the problem of<br>getting the firmware updated.<br><br>There might be a way to get Windows, for this exercise. You do need some
<br>disk space.<br>Look at <a href="http://microsoft.com" target="_blank">microsoft.com</a> for downloads.<br><br>Sometimes there's a beta of something such as Windows Server 2008<br>(there's a release candidate available for download right now). It's
<br>free to acquire for testing and evaluation. I would think evaluating its<br>ability to update your firmware would be fair use.<br><br>Microsoft also has evaluation versions of Small Business Server 2003.<br>You need to order a CD.
<br><br>There's an evaluation version of Windows Xp SP2 x64 Edition for Athlon<br>64 and such right now. You need to order a CD.<br><br>Note, you get an enormous key to enter when you install. You do not need<br>to activate any of them immediately.
<br><br><br>If your CPU is capable of virtualisation, I think you can install to a<br>file (maybe 2 Gbytes) under Xen or KVM, and give the guest the DVD<br>burner. Think of it as like WINE, but better (from the POV of getting
<br>the job done).<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br><br><br><br>--<br><br>Cheers<br>John<br></div></blockquote><div>Sounds like a winner but I was not very impressed with virtualization in Fedora. It was to slow. Anyone else know what I mean? It seemed to be using an old BIOS or perhaps mine is incompatible with something. I get this message at boot time about an incompatibility with my BIOS. I am going to try virtuozzo there is supposed to be a free version available.
<br><br>-Max <br></div></div><br>