Update Management

[jdhurst]

I have acquired a T61p with Vista. I have posted lots about how I maintain a manual file of updates for my T41 and how well that worked with Software Installer (now gone).

I intended all along to re-image my T61 when I was ready to move to production and did that last night.

Over the weekend I ran Software Updater 3 and it seemed to work. I did all the updates. But I didn't see (and did not check very hard) where the downloaded files went.

I prefer to do this myself and keep my own file of updates. I can also see that this is going to be trickier than in past (different machines, different versions of Vista [32-bit vs 64-bit] and XP). I may give up on this, but for now I forge ahead.

The first anomoly I have run across is this:

There is a BIOS update out (2.14-1.08) 7luj15us for my 8891-CTO, but it says Widescreen. My 8891-CTO is not widescreen. I assume that BIOS would be different for the two different screens (BIOS would have to know about the physical screen). Is this correct?

Thanks, ... JDH

[Zender]

T60 had wide/non-wide BIOSes, but T61 have only one for both (grew from 2MB to 4MB by the way). However, T61 BIOS is also present on widescreen R61 with FireWire.