Installed Fedora 13 RC2 On Dell Latitude E6400

Mon May 17 08:16:20 UTC 2010

On 05/16/2010 10:26 AM, Robert L Cochran wrote:
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> I'm trying to figure out how to get FreeDOS to see my CD drive so I can
> do the BIOS update from within FreeDOS. It says it cannot open client
> CD-ROM device driver "FDCD0000" and SHCDX33A cannot load.

http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml

Use the "biosdisk" script that Dell provides.  The "install" variant 
will create a FreeDOS image and configure your system to load it using 
GRUB.  You'll be able to boot that image and flash your BIOS.