firefox is regularly dying

[Jerry Amundson]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Robert P. J. Day
<rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
...
> p.s.  and while i'm here, francois cami suggested i upgrade the bios
> on this system as a possible solution.  i checked, and my current bios
> version is phoenix 9D.03.  and i can see a newer version here --
> 9D.05:
>
> http://support.gateway.com/support/drivers/getFile.asp?id=21980&dscr=BIOS%20flash%20Version%209D.05%2005/23/2008
>
> so how *does* one upgrade the bios from fedora conveniently?
> curiously, in all my years of working with red hat/fedora, i've never
> had to do that.

You can't. See "How to Install" in the link above. The update is an
exe and looks to only run under Windows.
So, you'd need another partition, or a USB drive, with a Windows install.

jerry