How to Upgrade the Thinkpad x61 BIOS

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sudo mkdir /mnt/usb
sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb
sudo cp -af [ISO mount point]/* /mnt/usb/

Hi Mike,
Thanks for taking the time to help me out. (I was worried you were on vacation or something more fun than helping me!)

I'm ready to reboot the Lenovo X61 tablet PC to flash... just had one (maybe minor?) glitch in the instructions where it asked me to specify the file system type (but I didn't do it 'cuz I didn't know what it wanted).

Here's what I did:

I placed the previously created 4GB USB flash drive in the Lenovo X61 left USB slot.

$ script /tmp/flashbios.log
$ sudo fdisk -l

Reported:
... stuff about unrelated disks ...
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 490 3928032 e W95 FAT16 (LBA)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(488, 254, 63) logical=(489, 5, 27)

This merely proved that the USB stick was still in /dev/sdb1 so I then ran:

sudo mkdir /mnt/usb
sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb
sudo cp -af /cdrom/* /mnt/usb/

Reported:
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

Even with that warning?/error?, the command seemed to have mounted it nonetheless:

ls -l  /mnt/usb/COMMAND.COM

Reported:
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 7376 2008-01-30 07:00 /mnt/usb/COMMAND.COM

So, I'll move forward from here and let you all know how it works out!
Thanks for caring about others!