On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 08:45 +0100, François Patte wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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. > > Look there: > > http://linux.dell.com/repo/community/ > > > As I understand the procedure: > > wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/software/bootstrap.cgi | bash > wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/firmware/bootstrap.cgi | bash > > then: > > yum -y install firmware-addon-dell > yum install -y $(bootstrap_firmware) > > update_firmware --yes > > > Let us know the result. Wall the process worked like a charm. The BIOS was upgraded from A03 to A11. But the change I wanted did not appear. I want to be able to turn on hyper-threading and A11 (as well as A)#) does not allow this. But I am glad to know this procedural since it works so well. Thanks > -- ======================================================================= Observe yon plumed biped fine. To activate its captivation, Deposit on its termination, A quantity of particles saline. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
