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At 12:12 AM 7/23/2004, you wrote:
>Will there be a file there that's just a straight byte-by-byte image of 
>the sectors of a bootable upgrade floppy? (I hope so; in that case, I 
>could take it to nearly any machine -- including a DOS machine with 
>rawrite or fdimage -- and make a diskette.)

There's probably not a boot image on the CD, if that's what you mena. 
However, if there's a binary image of the update, depending on how they did 
it, it should be easy enough to write an updater for FreeBSD. If it 
actually runs on the on-card processors, writing something to flash them 
under FreeBSD would be almost trivial. (The i960's just need to be reset, 
and then dump it into a specific register. ARMs should have a similar 
capability.)


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