questions about flashing bios in the dell mini 9

[shiningkenmonster]

I want to flash my BIOS in my dell mini 9. I ran into this article about flashing my dell mini 9's Ubuntu:

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ins910/en/sm/bios.htm#wp1084976

just wondering, do I need a USB flash drive for this?

and as for downloading the BIOS file:
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ins910/en/sm/bios.htm#wp1084976

which one I am suppose to download?

(I tried looking everywhere on mydellmini.com, launchpad,) no help to figuring it out.

[shiningkenmonster]

anyone there?

[sirebral]

There is a Linux tool to flash BIOS updates available. Unfortunately it is not compatible with the Mini 9 MB. I was hoping to give DELL a push in the right direction. They opted for a Free DOS version. I have yet to flash my BIOS with the update, but I know some people have.

[anjilslaire]

I've used a DOS-bootable usb stick and have at one time or another flashed every bios version onto my mini 9, including A05 on release day. It seems to work fine.

[Brandon Williams]

This launchpad question (https://answers.launchpad.net/dell-mini/+question/60269) has answers that describe multiple methods for flashing the bios. One method uses a USB stick, and the other uses the Dell diagnostics partition (for those who still have it).