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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++