Upgrade your Dell PowerEdge/whatever servers firmware with CentOS LiveCD

Posted November 19, 2009 by MrBerry

Yeah, Dell wont let you run their tools from any linux dist you want…It HAS to be a RHEL-like dist.
Yes, i know you could do something like this.
But if you dont feel frisky, and want to do it the right way….Start by downloading this CentOS 5.4 ISO:
http://mirror.hh.se/centos/5.4/isos/i386/CentOS-5.4-i386-LiveCD.iso

Burn it and boot up your server with F11, CDROM

When all is up and youve got net, do these deps:
yum install compat-libstdc++-33 procmail

Place you .BIN file from Dell on a ftp/http whatever..
Ex.
wget http://supereye.org/2950.BIN #The newest PowerEdge 2950 firmware

Finally ready for flashing:
chmod +x 2950.BIN && ./2950.BIN

Great success!

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2 Responses to “Upgrade your Dell PowerEdge/whatever servers firmware with CentOS LiveCD”

  1. Oliver Says:
    October 7th, 2010 at 03:42

    This worked out greatly ! Thanks !

  2. Kinan Says:
    December 6th, 2011 at 21:06

    Man, when I got the title of your article, I thought I finally found it.
    It seems the article is a bit old, and the ISO image is no longer exist.
    DO you have it somewhere in your archive? Or can you let me know where to find it?

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