FW: BIOS / firmware update CD?

[Harald_Jensas at Dell.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com 
> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Mike M
> Sent: 14 December 2006 03:26
> To: linux-poweredge-Lists
> Subject: Re: BIOS / firmware update CD?
> 
> > 
> http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?fileid=145877
> >
> > although i dont think its bootable - you just run the 
> updater from the 
> > CD and it does its thing.
> 
> Am I the only one who longs for the days of the Dell SNAP CD 
> and all of its bootable, firmware updating goodness? :)
> 
> Seriously, though, the need to have a running OS to do 
> upgrades is ridiculous.  What if you wanted to do the 
> firmware upgrades *before* you installed the OS??  I can't 
> imagine I'm the only person who wants to do this (and judging 
> by this thread, I'm not).
> 
> Mike


How up2date is the http://repo.fwupdate.com/repo/firmware/ kept?
Browsing it it seems all files was created in June 2006?


My idea was to create a livecd with firmware-tools. If the repo is updated regularly, we wou would have a "static" update CD that could be used on "all" systems to apply the latest BIOS and FW updates. (And the functionality could be added to a Utility partition as well...)

Updating the repo every time a new update is released would be less work than gathering packages, validating and releasing an update CD right?



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Harald Jensås