Thread: Who's going to be the first to upgrade his Reader?
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Old 07-24-2008, 01:43 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
All we know from 500 users is do not use VMWare or Paralells to do any sort of upgrade that goes via USB. Good chance of bricking the reader. The only real way to upgrade is to use a real Windows system.
I definitely upgraded my 500's firmware from a (VMware Workstation) Windows guest running in a Linux host. Maybe I just got lucky / the other user(s) unlucky?

I'm going to try the 505 upgrade from within a VM, so wish me luck.

-Marshall
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