Updating Dell PowerEdge firmware from Linux is quite easy, but it isn’t documented very well. I ended up with a set of PowerEdge R710’s at work for a lab environment and the BIOS versions were different on each server. Downloading the latest firmware Start by heading over to Dell’s support site and enter your system’s service tag.
Dell Update Packages Version 5.5 Linux Operating Systems pub 1024D/23B66A9D 2001-04-16 Dell, Inc. (Product Group)
Welcome Welcome to the Dell Linux Engineering site. This site provides information that will be useful regarding your usage of Linux on your Dell equipment. Dell partners with Red Hat, SuSE and Canonical, and so most of our efforts are focused on these distributions.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Servers #zypper mr -da; zypper mr -e "dell-system-update_dependent" ; zypper update; zypper mr -ea; Note:-To update from local repository (custom), use the OMSA repository name instead of dell-system-update_dependent in the commands. Delete / Remove a Directory Linux Command - nixCraft
Dell's Project Sputnik fills a vacuum because it is the only major PC maker with such a Linux effort under way. Some other PC makers like System76 also offer Linux laptops, but Dell's laptops have
How to activate subscriptions purchased from a third party redhat support over the phone said to contact Dell at 800-943-3355. When I spoke with them they said that the L3 redhat license to call redhat since there's no pro support for that server. We are about to renew our RHEL licenses but I'm now questioning renewing because of this for thousands of dollars and just getting a blame game response on