On 2019-07-01 14:15, mark wrote:
Frank Cox wrote:
On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 19:38:29 +0100
lejeczek via CentOS wrote:
I also a few years ago got Dell's tech support telling me to
do MS-DOS stuff in order to update BIOS.
So what's wrong with using DOS to update firmware? DOS is a small and
simple program loader that's unlikely to require much in the way of
hardware to work and is unlikely to be infected by a virus in today's
world.
Would you rather have to boot a mulit-gigabyte image of who-knows-what
that does ghawd-knows-what for what should be simple task?
The above is really weird. From CentOS 5, 6, and 7, I've run Dell's
firmware update from a running system, no OMSA. Updates with no problems.
I really agree with Frank. The smaller the thing your run flash/firmware
burner is the better. So, rudimentary DOS is what I would prefer given a
choice.
And I have to say I really like Dell's firmware installer - it scans the
system, and then *tells* you that a) it is for that system, and b) that
this is newer than the current, and do you want to install.
Though I do note that tastes differ.
Valeri
mark
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