Re: how to update firmware for R710 hardware

2010-09-30 Thread Łukasz Jagiełło
2010/9/23 jeffrey_l_mend...@dell.com: If you really want to dig in: Copy the contents of: /usr/libexec/dell_dup/dell_ie_bios /usr/share/firmware/dell/dup/system_ven_0x1028_dev_0x0xxx/dell_dup_componentid_00159_version_xxx To the same temp directory, and run: ./biosie.bin -u output.xml To

how to update firmware for R710 hardware

2010-09-23 Thread Eric Doutreleau
hi i have setup the yum repo for firmware in my R710 machine. I m running centos 5.5 but when i run update_firmware --yes i got the following messages Running updates... / Installing dell_dup_componentid_00159 - 2.1.9Installation failed for package: dell_dup_componentid_00159 - 2.1.9

Re: how to update firmware for R710 hardware

2010-09-23 Thread Robin Bowes
On 23/09/10 13:05, Eric Doutreleau wrote: hi i have setup the yum repo for firmware in my R710 machine. I m running centos 5.5 but when i run update_firmware --yes i got the following messages Running updates... / Installing dell_dup_componentid_00159 - 2.1.9Installation failed for

Re: how to update firmware for R710 hardware

2010-09-23 Thread Lisa Giaime
I have a pile of R610. I never tried to use a yum repo for the firmware updates. However, I did try a few things. The R610's have the universal server configurator. When that points to ftp.dell.com, it is crazy slow. Updates can take all night. Instead, I built a local ftp server for

RE: how to update firmware for R710 hardware

2010-09-23 Thread Jeffrey_L_Mendoza
When that points to ftp.dell.com, it is crazy slow. Updates can take all night. Instead, I built a local ftp server for this. The problem then turned out to be that I wasn't fetching the xml catalog file. The ftp site is not built to easily create a local mirror for USC. You'll need to