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James Nixon
April 2nd, 2009 James T. Nixon III Comments off

This post may be considered trivial to most of you, but I thought I’d post it up here for the sake of documentation.

The production manager approached me this morning and asked if I could make a bootable ISO for a customer who needed to flash the BIOS of several servers.  I suggested they PXE boot, but because of the volume of servers they have with PXE booting disabled, human involvement would be unavoidable.

I have several bootable floppies for flashing BIOSes, but our customer had specific configuration requests, so I had to switch out the zipped ROM file located within the floppy image.  Simple enough, right?

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