Dell Linux Diagnostics are Windows .EXE based?

[Jeff]

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 2:02 PM, David Sparks<dave at ca.sophos.com> wrote:
> Does Dell have a single bootable diagnostic CD yet?  I need a iso containing
> diagnostics for a malfunctioning R200.
>
> To get the diagnostics I go to:
>
> Product Support -> R200 -> Drivers and Downloads -> Red Hat Enterprise Linux
> 5.2 -> Diagnostics -> 32 Bit Diagnostics
>
> and I am presented with this download:
>
> DELL_32-BIT-DIAGNOSTICS_5109-2_R197222.exe
>
>
> An EXE file??!  How is this supposed to work -- am I supposed to run this in Wine?

Dell diagnostics do not generally run within the installed OS. They
are either a bootable floppy disk or CD. In your case, I'm betting
that the Windows executable will create a bootable floppy disk set. I
have often found ISO images for the diagnostics which I burn to a
bootable CD, but I think it varies by server model.

Jeff