notebook BIOS update without Windows?

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On 10/9/06, Francisco Borges <f.borges at rug.nl> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a notebook (Dell Inspiron6400) with only Linux in it. I would
> like to update the BIOS of it (according to Dell "update thermal
> control").
>
> All files at Dell's website to update the BIOS are .EXE files.
>
> Is there way to update the BIOS without Windows?

I think you answered yourself below :-)

> A FreeDOS CDROM? Run the exe from Wine?

You should boot from any FreeDOS or MS-DOS floppy, then run the BIOS updater.
WIINE won't work, since it won't allow the executable to access the
hardware directly.