dellmgr on Debian Sarge ?

[Terry Gliedt]

Léonard Wauters wrote:
 >
 > Dellmgr is statically linked, so it doesn't require any special package.
 > That's why making a .deb is quite easy, and even more a good exercice I
 > think...
 > We have made a special .deb in my company for dellmgr, and we hav no
 > problems on using it.

Léo was correct, making the Debian package was trivial. The only dellmgr 
I could find at support.dell.com is 5.22 (from over 4 years ago). Has 
anyone seen a more recent version?

When I invoke dellmgr.bin I get a curses screen of garbled characters. 
This is surely a messed up font (I ran it in an XTERM). Anyone know how 
to make dellmgr show legible characters ?  TIA


 >>> Terry Gliedt wrote:
 >>>
 >>>> Our several dozen Dell machines are running Debian Sarge and I'd
 >>>> really like to get dellmgr and the like to run without booting to a
 >>>> DOS floppy. We are running a standard 2.6.15 kernel. Has anyone made
 >>>> this sort of software available - or had experience getting things
 >>>> to work from a running Linux system (even Debian unstable??)   TIA

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