dellmgr on Debian Sarge ?

[Gunnar Krull]

On Monday 31 July 2006 16:25, Terry Gliedt wrote:
> 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?

I'm using dellmgr from the "perc-cerc-apps-6.03-A06" package. This includes a 
rpm packet with version 5.31 (Oct 08, 2003). Don't now if this is the most 
recent version.
You can also use alien to convert the rpm to deb.


>
> 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

The characters are ok on my systems. Debian Sarge with TERM=xterm, LANG=POSIX.

Gunnar




>
>  >>> 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