Dell Firmware Updates

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Dell firmware update images are based on Fedora’s livecd-creator (part of the livecd-tools package), so you can download the firmware update image, follow the instructions at How To Boot Live CDs and use Cobbler to deploy the image using PXE after converting it with livecd-iso-to-pxeboot (see instructions). This avoids having to take media around to the various machines.

Here is an example of updating an entire network of machines. You may wish to be more or less fine grained:

cobbler system add --name=updateme --ip=192.168.0.0/24 --profile=LIVE_UPDATE_MY_DELLS
# cycle power on above systems, reboot, and then restore the default PXE booting behavior
cobbler system remove --name=updateme

Adding to this because Dell has a set of repos designed to allow yum to inventory and update it’s firmware:

# Setting Up DSU Repository
wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/dsu/bootstrap.cgi| bash
# Install firmware tools
yum install dell-system-update
# Inventorying Firmware
dsu --inventory
# Updating Firmware
dsu
# Reboot
reboot

See here for the full set of instructions: http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/dsu/

Or you can use dell linux repo as bellow, which is deprecated now.

# set up repo
wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/bootstrap.cgi | bash
# install firmware tools
yum install dell_ft_install
# install BIOS update
yum install $(bootstrap_firmware)
# Inventory firmware version levels
inventory_firmware
# Compare versions installed to those available
update_firmware
# Install any applicable updates
update_firmware --yes
# Reboot to flash the new firmware
reboot

See here for the full set of instructions: http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/

Dell Firmware Updates

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