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  • Re: Learned Something New About Ethernet Today

    From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.misc on Sun Jul 20 03:10:31 2025
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    On Sat, 19 Jul 2025 20:31:06 -0400 (EDT), Scott Dorsey wrote:

    Do they have an MS-DOS or FreeDOS option available?

    I specifically suggested trying FreeDOS, as I understand that is a common thing to bundle with server hardware in lieu of a full-fat, full-price OS.

    Sadly, I’m pretty sure the executable was Windows only. It had a GUI, for one thing (not much of one, but still). I don’t think you can build
    Windows executables that can also work as DOS command-line-only
    executables ...
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  • From Kerr-Mudd, John@admin@127.0.0.1 to comp.misc,alt.folklore.computers on Sun Jul 20 10:01:15 2025
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    On Sun, 20 Jul 2025 03:10:31 -0000 (UTC)
    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

    On Sat, 19 Jul 2025 20:31:06 -0400 (EDT), Scott Dorsey wrote:

    Do they have an MS-DOS or FreeDOS option available?

    I specifically suggested trying FreeDOS, as I understand that is a common thing to bundle with server hardware in lieu of a full-fat, full-price OS.

    Sadly, I’m pretty sure the executable was Windows only. It had a GUI, for one thing (not much of one, but still). I don’t think you can build Windows executables that can also work as DOS command-line-only
    executables ...

    There is/was a guy over in erm some other group alt.os.development ? who claim(s/ed) to have xcompiled stuff.

    DOS TUI was a thing for a bit - prior to Borland and Norton IBM went
    overboard at the start of OS/2 with a set of "standards" - Common User Interface? I think the only product that implemented it was PASF/PC.

    xpost to afc for better memories
    --
    Bah, and indeed Humbug.
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  • From Oregonian Haruspex@no_email@invalid.invalid to comp.misc on Mon Jul 28 15:01:22 2025
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    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
    On 19 Jul 2025 10:55:05 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

    A quick search suggests that controller is targeted at servers.

    Specifically in this case, a Lenovo server. Lots of CPU cores, lots of
    RAM, lots of network interfaces, lots of disks, lots of fans ...

    Only, Lenovo insists on making firmware updaters available only through stupid .exe files that only run under Windows. So we had to do a temporary Windows Server installation just to try applying that firmware update,
    only for it to fail for some reason we couldn’t fathom. But the option to extract the firmware to a .rom file worked.

    So we saved that to a USB stick, and then, we rebooted into the UEFI monitor, and it was able to load and apply that .rom file just fine.

    Why couldn’t Lenovo just make the firmware available in a simple .zip archive to begin with? That would have saved so much trouble. Not to mention, not encouraging the habit among users of downloading and running random .exe files from random websites ...


    Lenovo also pushes firmware updates through that buggy Linux program that people use too. fwupd or something it’s called. I run the fish now.

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