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!
Tags: centos, dell, firmware, livecd, poweredge, redhat, rhel
