dell r710/h700 upgrade blues

[Oscar]

R720 owner here. I would either do what Vincent suggested or use the
lifecycle controller to install updates from dell's ftp server. But do
remember that dell's ftp servers are not always reliable.

You can also use platform specific update isos offered by dell.
https://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/19/sln296511/update-poweredge-servers-with-platform-specific-bootable-iso?lang=en

Oscar

On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 6:38 AM Vincent Hoffman-Kazlauskas <
vince at unsane.co.uk> wrote:

>
>
> On 17/07/2019 07:31, Daniel Braniss wrote:
> > hi,
> > this host is running FreeBSD.
> >
> > I managed to upgrade the bios to 6.6.0, but failing miserably trying to
> update the perc/h700,
> > so any success stories out there?
> >
>
> Honestly for Dells I tend to reboot to a USB Centos6 install and use
> Dells DSU util for firmware updates.
>
> https://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/dsu/
>
> I'd be interested to hear of more FreeBSD based ways to to it.
>
> Vince
>
> > cheers,
> >       danny
> >
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