Patrick, We were finally able to get DLR working for RHEL5 via:
wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/Linux_Repository_14.12.00/bootstrap.cgi This gave us a recent enough BIOS for what we need. (You'd expect that older OS's reside on older h/w.) Thanks! Spike -----Original Message----- From: linux-poweredge-bounces-Lists On Behalf Of linux-poweredge-request-Lists Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2016 12:00 PM To: linux-poweredge-Lists Subject: Linux-PowerEdge Digest, Vol 143, Issue 4 ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 12:39:15 -0300 From: Patrick Boutilier Subject: Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] How do I use DLR to flash firmware in my RHEL5 servers? To: linux-poweredge@dell.com Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" On 04/06/2016 12:31 PM, spike_wh...@dell.com wrote: > *Dell - Internal Use - Confidential * > > All, > > How do I flash my RHEL5 servers using DLR? I?m doing this to set up DLR: > > wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/bootstrap.cgi > | bash > > Which is correct according to the DLR page: > > http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/ > > But when I check for yum updates, I get this error: > > [root@penbldevdb03 yum.repos.d]# yum check-update > > Loaded plugins: dellsysid, security > > http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/platform_independent/rh50_64/repodata/repomd.xml: > [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found > > Trying other mirror. > > Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: > dell-omsa-indep. Please verify its path and try again > > Obviously, for my RHEL6 & 7 servers, I use DSU for firmware updates. > But as RHEL5 is unsupported for DSU, I have to use DLR for RHEL5. > > So what?s the correct syntax to set up? I know the syntax to use DLR. > > Spike http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/platform_independent/rh50_64/ is pretty empty so it looks like support for RHEL5 is not in DLR either any more.
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