On 10/26/05, Alan Amesbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is pretty much classic Dell.  We've purchased a number of systems
> without operating systems on which we run FreeBSD.  However, they
> continually operate under the assumption that we are running Windoze or
> Linux, and expect those to do things like BIOS updates.

Have you tried running the Linux versions under FreeBSD's Linux
emulation? I haven't tried this yet either, but that'd be my first
whack at it.

> These links
>
>     ftp://ftp.dell.com/diags/ED5061A0.tar.gz
>     ftp://ftp.dell.com/diags/EI5061A0.ZIP
>
>     ftp://ftp.dell.com/diags/MP1038A0.tar.gz
>     ftp://ftp.us.dell.com/diags/MP1038A0.zip
>
> point at the Dell 32-bit diagnostics (first pair) and the memory
> diagnostics utilities (second pair).

Yes, those are the diagnostics I was thinking of.

Bryan
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