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Any Idea about the upgrade file format

New MessageAny Idea about the upgrade file format (modified 0 times) Linny
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Hi, I'm an unfortunate IA-1 owner who have to live with Microsoft, and would love to have this 'Un-haxable' box working with Linux.

I'm wondering about an upgrade over the modem line. If we could upgrade the OS on the box, why we shouldn't be able to upgrade to a Linux version. The important part is to know the upgrade file format. Anyone had a look at the file, might be only a regular compressed file.

Just try to drop some idea.


email at gaetanlord dot com
01-20-2002 16:11:58

New MessageRE:Any Idea about the upgrade file format (modified 1 times) erroneus
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Oh yeah, I agree with your sentiments 100%!

I have a hackable unit but my heart goes out to those with unhackables. There is a lot of effort and speculation being made about modifying the hardware and that's all well and good, but what we need is something the "average joe" can do. And what could be easier than:

* CTRL-U
* Update the info pointing to Hacker-X's site
* Make the update to download new IA-1 hack from web site
* Viola! The unhackable unit becomes hackable because the BIOS has been updated!
(Note: the downloaded code would run a procedure that updates the system's BIOS with hackable code)

This would require NO hardware adjustments at all on neither the hackable nor unhackable. It's a complete solution to a great start. We need some software hacksfirst, not hardware hacks.

01-20-2002 19:42:37

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