****Re: I'm uncomfortable with firmware update

[J. Epperson]

On Tue, November 20, 2007 10:23, Jim Nelson wrote:
> IIRC, they've had problems with BMC firmware updates, and disabled them -
>  I went ahead and did those with a USB floppy and a DOS disk.
>

The whole Dell repository situation has the feel of something that's being
tinkered with in this way, like something that doesn't work right can be
commented out, then worked on later and re-released for unannounced
regression testing by the peer community.  It's better than those BIN
scripts that give "out of space" and/or "insufficient privilege" messages
on failures that turn out to be syntax errors on a "head" or "tail"
command, but still has a "Hodie natus est radici frater" character.