[mythtv-users] HOW CAN THIS BE THIS HARD!?!?!?! (adding 2 files to a bootable iso)

[Erik Pettersen]

There was a great discussion with a billion different ways ( which
doesn't always help, but hey) on slashdot a few months ago

"Why Do We Have to Use a Floppy to Flash BIOS?"
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/29/2135208

I found a lot of neat howto/ideas command line nuggets in the comments
(in between the troll posts, and hot grits of course!)

e.
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http://www.byopvr.com

On 8/22/05, Lee <mythtv at varga.co.uk> wrote:
> Oh for crying out loud.... think laterally...
> 
> Download a bootable win98 iso with included CD drivers...
> Burn it and boot the mythbox with it...
> Take the disk out and burn it again with the flash util and the flash
> bin file (you may need 10MB juck file to pad out the CD)....
> Stick it back in the mythbox and run the flash util and reflash the bios...
> 
> >My MythTV box needs the BIOS updated.  This can only be done from
> >Windows, or a Windows 98 boot disk.  My MythTV Box doesn't have a floppy
> >drive.  (They are ugly and hold next to nothing.)  So I got the win98SE
> >boot iso from
> >http://www.allbootdisks.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=42&func=selectfolder&filecatid=10
> >
> >Using nothing but Linux I must modify the iso to add 2 files and then
> >burn.  I have 1 CD-RW to do this with.  I've tried for HOURS to find a
> >solution!!!  How can this be this hard?
> >
> >
> >
> 
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