On 02/24/07 06:12 am, Dave Saville thus wrote :

On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:24:52 +1100, Ed Durrant wrote:

 

However the current DOS utilities can be run from an OS/2 dos box - these are here with instructions on how to run under OS/2 :

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-4ZFPEG.html
    

And you install it on ECS how? The exe on that page won't run in a DOS box. And the destructions don't work - the Device Driver install wants a source.........................

  

:-)  Naturally, you need a Wintendo partition to run the install, then one needs to copy the files manually to thier ultimate destination. A quite intuitive and convenient method for installing a DOS app, don't you agree, my friend?

It truly makes one wonder...

On a somewhat related - and also way OT - subject, I had occasion the other day to update the firmware in a Proliant Remote Insight board (original Remote Insight Lights Out edition, not a RiLO II). Compaq's (now HP's) bundling of the firmware requires the extraction onto two floppy disks. From a W2K machine, this doesn't work very well, as W2K will not allow the utility to access the BIOS directly to provide the raw write access to create the diskettes (which aren't even needed when one simply has to upload the new firmware file via the web interface). Another job well done... Forty-five minutes to extract two floppy images and upload a 260K file.

Cheers.