Dell Linux Diagnostics are Windows .EXE based?

[David Sparks]

Jeff wrote:
> 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.

My Dell Latitude laptop runs linux.  All my servers run linux.  Am I supposed
to go to the public library to burn a copy of the linux diagnostics?  Why
would Dell do this?

ds