Bootstrap setup on RHEL4 does not get firmware-addon-dell

Charles_Rose at Dell.com Charles_Rose at Dell.com
Mon Aug 20 06:44:47 CDT 2007


Michael E Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 12:27:32PM +0530, Charles_Rose at dell.com wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have a RHEL4 install on a PE4600 with all the latest updates from
>> RHN. 
>> 
>> I followed the steps in
>> 
> http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Repository/firmware#Putting_it_al
>> l_
>> together For RHEL.
>> 
>> Both the wget lines worked without a problem.
>> 
>> But up2date -i firmware-addon-dell gives me this:
> 
> Well, I see one typo on the page. Not sure if that would
> cause this or not. Can you try:
> 
> rpm -e dell-firmware-repository dell-unsupported-repository
> rm /etc/dell-mirror.cfg
> 
> and then re-bootstrap using my fixed instructions?

Yes, this works. However, update_firmware failed with this python
message that I guess the new build should fix:

NameError: global name 'configLocations' is not defined

> 
>> Am I missing some steps here?
> 
> No.



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