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...pdate firmware? DOS is a small and > simple program loader that's unlikely to require much in the way of > hardware to work and is unlikely to be infected by a virus in today's > world. > > Would you rather have to boot a mulit-gigabyte image of who-knows-what > that does ghawd-knows-what for what should be simple task? > The above is really weird. From CentOS 5, 6, and 7, I've run Dell's firmware update from a running system, no OMSA. Updates with no problems. And I have to say I really like Dell's firmware installer - it scans the system, and then *tells...

On 01/07/2019 18:38, mark wrote: > lejeczek via CentOS wrote: >> hi guys >> >> does anybody here runs on HPE ProLiant? I was hoping you can tell whether >> HPE support Linux Vendor >> Firmware Service and you actually get to upgrade ProLiants' >> BIOS/firmware via fwupdmgr? >> >> > Dunno 'bout "Linux Vendor Firmware Service",

...9;s wrong with using DOS to update firmware? DOS is a small and simple program loader that's unlikely to require much in the way of hardware to work and is unlikely to be infected by a virus in today's world. Would you rather have to boot a mulit-gigabyte image of who-knows-what that does ghawd-knows-what for what should be simple task? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com

...s anymore? I don't even have a CDROM drive. I never ran DOS so I honestly have no clue what I'm doing with it. Fortunately, newer hardware let me drop the executable in the EFI volume for updates. > Would you rather have to boot a mulit-gigabyte image of > who-knows-what that does ghawd-knows-what for what should be simple > task? It's not a simple task. Do it wrong, and you've bricked your system. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>