[announce] firmware-tools: easier bios updates in Linux

[Matt Domsch]

On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 10:45:41AM +0200, Florent Gilain wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm interested in such thing, but as many people here, yum wasn't installed
> onto my system by dell before shipping it to me..where can i find the rpm to
> install it on my PE1850  RHEL3 ES ? Maybe could a link to it be added to the
> unofficial webpages...? Or did i missed it ?

RHEL3 uses up2date instead of yum, however, up2date can pull from yum
repositories.  The announcement
(http://linux.dell.com/firmware-tools/announce.html), as well as the
fwupdate.com repo's web page, includes instructions for use with
RHEL.  Briefly, it looks like:

# set up repos
wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/yum/software/bootstrap.sh | bash
wget -q -O - http://repo.fwupdate.com/repo/firmware/bootstrap.sh | bash

# install firmware tools
up2date -i firmware-addon-dell

# install BIOS update
up2date --solvedeps=$(inventory_firmware -b -u)
apply_updates


It should be noted that the current repo setups work on RHEL{3,4},
Fedora Core {3,4,5,devel}, and SLES9.

Thanks for your interest!
Matt

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