On Jan 16, 2008 11:20 PM, John Summerfield <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Michael A. Peters wrote:This doesn't answer the question, but it does address the problem of
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> That's a bit of a problem for me, I do not have windows, and this is NOT
> the kind of task I would expect to work in wine (though I may be wrong,
> I kind of doubt it would).
getting the firmware updated.
There might be a way to get Windows, for this exercise. You do need some
disk space.
Look at microsoft.com for downloads.
Sometimes there's a beta of something such as Windows Server 2008
(there's a release candidate available for download right now). It's
free to acquire for testing and evaluation. I would think evaluating its
ability to update your firmware would be fair use.
Microsoft also has evaluation versions of Small Business Server 2003.
You need to order a CD.
There's an evaluation version of Windows Xp SP2 x64 Edition for Athlon
64 and such right now. You need to order a CD.
Note, you get an enormous key to enter when you install. You do not need
to activate any of them immediately.
If your CPU is capable of virtualisation, I think you can install to a
file (maybe 2 Gbytes) under Xen or KVM, and give the guest the DVD
burner. Think of it as like WINE, but better (from the POV of getting
the job done).
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Cheers
John
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.
-Max
-Max
