My sister bought herself a new laptop last week and gave me her old IBM Thinkpad 770ED. It doesn't have a floppy drive on it, just a CD/DVD combo drive. I'm not sure if it ever had a floppy, the laptop wasn't originally my sister's either; she got it from her old law firm and whoever owned it before her must've removed the floppy drive.

Anyways. . .I want to upgrade the BIOS on this thing, as I want to install Linux on it and from what I've read at the IBM support site, which can be found here, you need to have the latest BIOS installed in order to fix some bugs to get Linux working.

However, the above www page says that you need a floppy drive in order to flash the BIOS. Can it be done without a floppy drive? Could I burn a bootable DOS CD on my desktop, then boot up the laptop using this CD and try flashing the BIOS through there?

Any other suggestions? Or do I have to track down an old Thinkpad floppy drive?