DOS boot disk (for flashing BIOS)?

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• From: "Christopher J. Bottaro" <cjbottaro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 23:13:09 -0600
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How do I make a DOS boot disk to flash my BIOS?  Also, the flash files are
packed in a .exe file (a self extracting executable, I imagine).  How do I
unpack that in Linux?

I've always had a Windows machine handy, so this situation never arose till
now.

Thanks for the help.

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