Unable to update bios on ubuntu for vostro 1710

[pj]

On 05/20/2009 11:56 AM, Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 04:50:29PM +1200, Tim Uckun wrote:
>>      The Windows executable BIOS format for this system is not one that
>>      firmware-tools knows how to extract and turn into a deb or rpm. **So
>>      there is no BIOS update posted for this in the [1]linux.dell.com
>>      repositories.
>>
>>      Unfortunately, this system's BIOS is only posted as a Windows
>>      executable.
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Does Dell's BIOSDisk help at all in this case?:
http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml#biosdisk

I used it during a time when the D630 did not have a working BIOS update
through the fireware-tools.

PJ