BIOS upgrade on Dell Vostro 200 / Ubuntu 8.04

[Matt Domsch]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 01:46:36PM +0100, Jonas Haraldsson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a Dell Vostro 200 on which I have installed Ubuntu 8.04 (desktop

The Vostro 200 is not presently supported by firmware-tools.

This comes up often enough that I've created a page on linux.dell.com
which lists systems known to not be supported by firmware-tools at
this time.

http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Firmware/Systems_Missing_RBU

You may have success using our 'biosdisk' method instead, at
http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml#biosdisk.

Thanks,
Matt

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Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux