You may be able to use virtualbox and a Windows image to run the upgrade. Here's a nice list of where you can find images: https://github.com/SheepKid12/msft-modern.ie-images#available-images
-jason On Mon, Feb 27, 2023, 12:46 D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > I bought a used ThinkCentre M75q tiny desktop computer through kijiji. > I upgraded the RAM and disk. > For a disk, I bought a WD Black SN770 2TB NVMe drive. > > I've installed it and installed Fedora Linux on it. All fine. > > I don't know that much about management of NVME drives. They mostly just > work. But I got curious about firmware updates. > > - WD only supports firmware updates through Windows or MacOS! > > - this machine has no Windows license (surprising but true) or > installation. Less surprising, it has no MacOS license or installation. > > - there seems to have been a firmware update a while back (some reddit > queries about it five months ago). > > - My unit is probably new enough that it came with that new firmware. How > to check? > > - this article points to an NVMe tool for linux: > https://opensource.com/article/21/9/nvme-cli > > - nvme-cli works and seems useful but I don't really know how to read the > output. It does say "frmw : 0x14" which might contain the required > information. > > - When I try to log in to WD support, they say that I must change my > password (their site must have been compromised since I last logged in). > When I OK that, they say that they have emailed me a link but it does > not arrive. > > How frustrating. > --- > Post to this mailing list [email protected] > Unsubscribe from this mailing list > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >
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