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July 25th, 2007 07:00

how to update BIOS on floppyless Poweredge?

How can I update BIOS and RAID firmware on a floppyless Poweredge 860? I cannot use the Redhat update packages because they are *not* statically linked (a big, big fault that Dell made). The servers are running Debian Linux.
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    Posted July 25th, 2007 17:00

    You can try a USB floppy drive, or create a bootable cd that emulates a floppy drive where you boot off of the floppy image (may need a system with a floppy drive to create the floppy and then create the image file based on the floppy to put it on a bootable cd.
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    Posted September 7th, 2007 13:00

    Buying servers without floppys is a BAD BAD BAD.
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    Posted September 7th, 2007 22:00

    Fully agree, but making servers without at least a floppy controller, standard, is worse...all to save a couple dollars.
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    Posted September 10th, 2007 03:00

    Another thing is that running a non-supported OS can leave you hanging or hurting for support.

    However, these boards can help some in those situations.
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    Posted September 20th, 2007 20:00

    Hi,

    I have a power edge 2850 running under ubuntu server and I do not have any floppy to boot with.


    How did you resolve the problem?


    Best regards

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