Updating my ancient travelmate 260 bios

Hi there, I actually still have acer travelmate 260, since I will give it to my cousin soon, I wonder if I could at least upgrade the bios? The laptop is using Wistron bios v3.3 (If I'm not mistaken, since it's the only thing displayed on the booting screen)

I only want to know whether it's possible to upgrade bios because the old bios doesn't support usb boot which is suck, I couldnt toy this laptop for multi OS experiments. =(

any help would be appreciated, and also, maybe someone knows how to add boot to usb support when the bios doesnt support it?

 

As far as I could find, the 3.3 is the latest sorry. And if the bios doesn't support usb boot I'm pretty sure there is nothing you can do about it..

 

oh there is actually an alternative way to boot and loading usb driver during boot, but it requires floppy disk. I wonder if we could do something similar with ISO image? (floppy these days are much more vulnerable, and I think CD could do better)

 

You're right, you could use DUSE. I forgot about this option. But still this is not usb boot, but usb support under dos. In that case you have to put a disk in your internal cd-rom, install DUSE's usb support, then use your external cd-rom. But I can't think of any way to use your external usb device to boot directly without native usb boot bios support.

 

You could try the 'motto hairu' usb dos driver. Translated readme.txt here

 

so uh, sorry if this sounds very noob question, but what do I do with these files? I assume I should copy them to my cd rom something? (I'm still new of this booting stuff, sorry!)

 

Dude this is very long to explain here there are ton's of guides on the web try this one for example.

 

ah I see, don't worry about that, I thought It could be much simpler. Thanks for the help!