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

[J. Epperson]

On Tue, November 20, 2007 13:00, Craig White wrote:
> ---- there is a kind of proof of concept to it...Dell support for Linux
> has certainly had an edge to it, it's constantly improving and I'm
> willing to live with some of the roughness as it improves (wish they
> would chip in and help with kernel/grub support on Optiplex 320 but that
> is not for this list).
>
> Of course, the administrator always has the option of the normal
> methodology of updating BIOS/firmware which makes sense to them.
>
> I tend to view BIOS/firmware updates as not time critical unless of
> course, they are time critical so I don't really mind being part of the
> process of getting this methodology up to speed...clearly it's not for
> everyone.
>

Ah yes, the non-time-critical update, the lack of which can intermittently
turn our mission-critical resources into bricks and/or alphabet soup.

Part of getting this methodology up to speed will be establishing the
processes/discipline necessary to produce repeatable and regression
testable results.  That's what gives me the heebie jeebies:  doing the
same scenario multiple times AFAICT and getting different results.