Can I boot the 380e bios ugrade from the cd drive rather than the floppy disk?

Can I boot the 380e bios upgrade from the cd drive rather than the floppy disk? I don't have any floppies around and I don't want to order them online just for this one task. The bios disk images are here. http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/detail.page?LegacyDocID=DSHY-46AKPY

I'm sorry that I can't answer your CD vs diskette question, but you mention updating your 380E BIOS and the link you've included is for the 390E.
Here's the 380E BIOS link: http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS001672
What version are you currently at?
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