wow, this thread went WAY offtopic.

Anyway, you can transfer the image to the empeg without hyperterminal/terminal editor, thus without a serial cable. You can just use the FTP commands "site rw" and "site ro" to mount the drives read-write and read-only. Also, if you're using the Windows command-line FTP client then make sure you put a "literal" before each of those commands, ie "literal site rw".

later,
ajay