I am new to firmware flashing, so please forgive the noobie question; Can I flash my 2510 F/W from a boot CD or do I have to use the Windows installer? 
This is an issue because I didn’t put a floppy in when I built my machine. 
If I have to use the Windows piece, is there anything I can do to insure success? TIA for your help.
DOS BootCD should work fine.
After you’ve loaded and are working in DOS, take the CD out and then flash.
Yeah i did the last thing last night. I googled for dos boot cd and found a boot cd. However it was only windows 98 boot disk on it and my file system was NTFS, so i solved it like this.
- I burned the boot cd
- I burned the .bin and .exe file
Then i booted the cd, got in win98 dos startup,
then putted in the cd with .bin .exe file, then copy it to memory in dos
copy 2X00.exe q: (was the syntax for me)
Then popped out cd
And ran flash from RAM.
Worked very good. Now i can use bitsetting and burn verb 4x on 8x 
You can make a boot CD with Nero (not MS-DOS version, but will work fine), it can read from NTFS, so your firmware files can be stored on your HDD.