UNOFFICIAL release, OMSA c.5.1 CentOS 4.4 LiveCD.

[Harald_Jensas at Dell.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher McCrory [mailto:chrismcc at pricegrabber.com] 
> Sent: den 25 januari 2007 01:55
> To: Jensas, Harald
> Cc: linux-poweredge-Lists
> Subject: Re: UNOFFICIAL release, OMSA c.5.1 CentOS 4.4 LiveCD.
> 
> What are the chances of getting firmware update tools on the same CD.
> Similar to the SNAP CDs from a couple years ago.  The SNAP 
> CDs were the ticket.  Update BIOS, ESM, scsi controller/PERC 
> BIOS, hard disk firmware, backplane firmware, all at once 
> from one bootable CD.  
> 
> ( or bring back the SNAP CDs :)
> 

Christopher, and all who second, third etc. on this...


I have been playing with the idea of using:
 a) The firmware-tools, http://www.fwupdate.com.  
 b) A firmware repository like http://repo.fwupdate.com/repo/firmware/ , and hopefully in the future mirrors. 

Boot the CD auto/manual network config and simply run:
 # "yum -y --enablerepo=firmware-repo install $(inventory_firmware -b)"
 # "apply_updates" 

This way we would have a static CD that should/could work on any system, Dell, HP, IBM, Servers, Desktops, Notebooks etc. As long as the repo is kept up2date the latest patches/FW's will be applied.

But I AFIK firmware-tools is not mature enough yet, firware for BMC, RAID Controllers and probably a lot more need to be added. Looking at the firmware-tools mailing list activity I guess development is not in "fast forward" mode... E.g I belive more people contributing would help.    <--- Hint! ;)




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Harald Jensås