John Doe wrote:
From: "m.roth@5-cent.us" m.roth@5-cent.us
You can boot from the Firmware Maintenance CD. It will auto-detect all the hardware firmwares and update them if needed... You just have to find the most recent CD that still supports your model (see in the release notes), since they gradually remove old hw
to make
some room for new ones...
No such luck: we don't have such a maintenance CD; if anyone does, it's the other Institute, and as we're doing admin work, I'd guess they don't have a real admin, so who knows where it is.
The ISOSs are downloadable... Google "firmware maintenance cd" and check the "version history" to get the latest one. Then, try the "release notes" to see if you find your server model (not always listed). If not, go back a few versions until you find it. CD 8.60 by example seems to have it and is not too old... Download and burn. Or, you could try the new way (I never tried it yet): http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/spp/index.html
Found what seemed to be it - http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00308226, but the one for the DL580 GL5 was from '09. I clicked the link at the top of the list, found mine, clicked that, and was offered a choice of OS's, including CentOS, but that had some accelerator. At the bottom of the offered OS's, they say "cross-os - BIOS, etc". I follow that... and *all* I get is a WinDoze .exe. Could I use one of the burnable DVDs to boot from then run this, having copied onto the h/d on the server?
mark