Auto BIOS / firmware upgrade ISO

[Matt Domsch]

On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 10:44:57AM +0100, Gavin Hamill wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:22:33 +0100
> Gavin Hamill <gdh at acentral.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:15:09 +0200
> > "Florent Gilain" <florent.gilain at direct-energie.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > It's called : "Dell CD ISO - PowerEdge Updates" in download area
> > > under
> > 
> > Wonderful - a single google search for that exact string led me
> > straight to the download page - far simpler than trying to navigate
> > Dell's website :)
> 
> Ah for shame - it's not a standalone bootable utility but rather
> requires Windows or RH/SuSE (although not OMSA, thankfully) :(

For BIOS (today, other firmware types in the future) you can also do
online updates.  See http://fwupdate.com/ and the firmware-tools
project at http://linux.dell.com/firmware-tools/.

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Matt Domsch
Software Architect
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