dell r710/h700 upgrade blues

[Daniel Braniss]

> On 24 Jul 2019, at 23:38, Oscar via freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 

r710 is not in their list.
maybe I’ll try and move the h700 to a newer host and there upgrade the firmware …

thanks to all,
	danny

> 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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