Installing a new BIOS on a Dell Computer

[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 08:45 +0100, François Patte wrote: 
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> Le 17/12/2009 01:10, Aaron Konstam a écrit :
> > The last time I installed a new BIOS on a Dell Computer I used a floppy
> > disk. That is no longer an option. Could anyone explain how I can
> > accomplish this? Please be as detailed as you can describing the
> > procedure.
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> Look there:
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> http://linux.dell.com/repo/community/
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> As I understand the procedure:
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> wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/software/bootstrap.cgi | bash
> wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/firmware/bootstrap.cgi | bash
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> then:
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> yum -y install firmware-addon-dell
> yum install -y $(bootstrap_firmware)
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> update_firmware --yes
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> 
> Let us kow the result.
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> - --
I am a little nervous that they do not list a repository for fedora 12.
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