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.
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