Nadim Bitar wrote:
>> You haven't done much research into this have you. You should at
>> least be sure of your facts before you make comments like that :)
>
>
> Maybe you should check your facts, i am running Redhat linux on dell
> servers and having problems that could be easily solved if i had a
> windows machine. I know that these servers run perfectly on Linux but
> many utilities that are available for windows are not available for
> linux or if they are you either need windows to install them or you
> need windows on the client to access the remote management interface.
Ahhhh - I see your confusion. Dell, could make the website somewhat better, I agree. However, you don't need windows to use the driver/application packages on the site.
When I list the software available to our PowerEdge servers, and list only Linux, you're right when I ask for a specific download, it only prints .exe files. HOWEVER, read the small print :) These are self-extracting ZIP files - hence unzip will uncompress them easily. Even on Linux.
Ie:
[plarsen@dilbert tmp]$ unzip -l Utl.exe
Archive: Utl.exe
Length Date Time Name
-------- ---- ---- ----
0 02-19-01 10:54 CIM/
3847 12-29-00 13:44 CIM/readme.txt
0 02-19-01 10:54 ControlSuite/
439911 02-15-01 19:45 ControlSuite/data1.cab
15067 02-15-01 19:45 ControlSuite/data1.hdr
1595007 02-15-01 19:45 ControlSuite/data2.cab
338488 01-10-01 08:39 ControlSuite/ikernel.ex_
435 02-15-01 19:45 ControlSuite/layout.bin
10430 02-09-01 13:25 ControlSuite/license.txt
9138 01-02-01 13:37 ControlSuite/logo.bmp
5060 02-02-01 14:38 ControlSuite/release.txt
54272 08-11-00 04:22 ControlSuite/Setup.exe
96 12-11-00 14:35 ControlSuite/Setup.ini
140200 02-15-01 19:45 ControlSuite/setup.inx
0 02-19-01 10:54 DMI/
0 02-19-01 10:54 DMI/hppdell/
45056 01-19-01 17:30 DMI/hppdell/b57dmihp.exe
13222 11-21-00 18:18 DMI/hppdell/b57dmihp.mif
5556 01-19-01 17:42 DMI/hppdell/release.txt
0 02-19-01 10:54 DOS/
0 02-19-01 10:54 DOS/UserDiag/
489040 02-15-01 20:51 DOS/UserDiag/b57diag.exe
143983 02-15-01 12:17 DOS/UserDiag/b57diagman.pdf
4460 12-28-00 12:47 DOS/UserDiag/cpu.bin
265396 07-20-00 18:35 DOS/UserDiag/dos4gw.exe
14249 02-15-01 19:39 DOS/UserDiag/release.txt
0 02-19-01 10:54 DOS/Utility/
22581 01-31-01 17:11 DOS/Utility/b57util.exe
22739 01-31-01 17:20 DOS/Utility/b57util.pdf
619 01-31-01 17:27 DOS/Utility/release.txt
0 02-19-01 10:54 SNMP/
45056 01-11-01 17:58 SNMP/baspmgnt.dll
0 02-19-01 10:54 SNMP/Mibs/
10481 01-11-01 17:54 SNMP/Mibs/baspConfig.mib
13428 01-11-01 17:36 SNMP/Mibs/baspStat.mib
2603 01-11-01 17:36 SNMP/Mibs/baspTrap.mib
3975 01-11-01 17:57 SNMP/release.txt
-------- -------
3714395 37 files
[plarsen@dilbert tmp]$
Dell could make each platform their own downloadable - but I don't think this is the forum for that debate. Try the suggested lists from dell or try the web-master for better suggestions.
> I do not like the fact that linux is a second class citizen and i do
> not like the fact that they impose windows in order to install the
> required files on my linux server.
You forget that some of the utililites are not needed on Linux. You have complete driver sets for all your hardware - what is not always there is cute little purpose less programs to view Scsi status graphicly (ie) - well, we got better ways of doing that from the command line anyway. But I guess that depends on your temper and experience. Personally I'm very fond of the /proc filesystem and access to the details of all setup and available switches compared to the reduced availability on Windows systems.
> The Dell My Support page downloads that i need are .exe files that
> needs windows to create the boot disk that i need, some documentation
> are even bundled in .exe files.
No they don't :) But it's easy to confuse. See above. unzip is available in the standard RH distribution. I'm NOT sure it's installed per default, but it's rather simple to load it.
> The My Dell support page doens't even list Linux as a OS for
> submitting an email to technical support.
??
I had/has for me.
> It is not enough to just have the hardware supported under linux to
> claim they support Linux.
????
What else is there for a hardware company?
Regards
Peter Larsen
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