Newbie-ish Question Redux

[Jason Clinton]

Jeffrey R Perry wrote:
> I'm still trying to make this thing work 2 weeks later between work and
> interning on a PeopleSoft implementation team. I gotta get a 

You evil, evil man. I despise the PeopleSoft bastards with every bone in 
my body. They have single handledly brought the UMKC and Longview 
administrative functions to it's knees with their buggy, expensive, 
incomplete and incompetent software. I loathe the administrator that got 
dupped in to buy it.

> Anyway this is the hardware list from Boot.
> 
> (541WUB0D) Award Modular Bios v4.50PG
> 
> Intel I430FX PCIset(TM)
> 
> Pentium-S CPU at 166MHZ
> 
> AdvanSys SCSI PCI Bus Host Adapter found @ i/o address Ox6000
> 
> ID #0 Seagate ST51080N 0913-DRIVE
> ID #1 Toshiba CD-Rom xm-5401ta
> ID #2 No Device Found
> ID #3 No Device Found
> ID #4 No Device Found
> ID #5 No Device Found
> ID #6 Quatum Fireball ST4.3S 0F0C - Drive 81H
> ID #7 AdvanSys SCSI PCI Bus Host Adapter

This isn't helpful at all.

> Jonathan had suggested I should upgrade the bios. Is there a good HOWTO
> somewhere that I could refer to? The instructions I've found seem to
> require Windows.

Upgrading the bios almost always requires booting from an MS-DOS floppy 
and then running the vendor's upgrade software. I use an image of 
FreeDOS (open-source MS-DOS), and use 'dd if=freedos.img of=/dev/floppy' 
to make a boot disk and then copy the files there by mounting the floppy 
using the kernel's FAT support and then copy the files for the bios 
upgrade. In my case, I don't have a floppy drive so I make a bootable CD 
from the img file and then perform the same functions.

Enjoy!