[sf-lug] BIOS Update

[Jason Turner]

John Jefferson Lowry IV wrote:
> If it has a USB port you can get a external floppy drive for ease of 
> installation.
Does someone have one they can bring tomorrow?
>
> On 7/7/07, *Tom Haddon* <tom at greenleaftech.net 
> <mailto:tom at greenleaftech.net>> wrote:
>
>     On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 08:23 -0700, Jason Turner wrote:
>     > On Jul 7, 2007, at 6:15 AM, Tom Haddon wrote:
>     >
>     > > Hi Folks,
>     > >
>     > > Got a request here. Is there anyone coming to the computer lab
>     > > tomorrow
>     > > that has a computer running Windows with a floppy disk drive
>     and some
>     > > some floppy disks? I need to update the BIOS on the donated
>     > > servers, and
>     > > from what I can see on the Dell site, the only option is a Windows
>     > > executable that will create the floppies for you. Since I have
>     neither
>     > > floppy drives nor Windows, I'm out of luck on both...
>     > >
>     > > In the current BIOS version, the servers seem to only allow
>     booting
>     > > from
>     > > hard disk or floppy, which makes the installation a little more
>     > > cumbersome - especially seeing as I have no floppy drive to write
>     > > disks
>     > > to...
>     > >
>     > > Thanks, Tom
>     > > --
>     >
>     >
>     > Tom,
>     >
>     > A couple questions back at you... have you tried this bit of
>     insiders
>     > advice from ExpertsExchange,
>     >
>     > "Booting from CD (from the PE2300 user's Guide):
>     >
>     >     *  In the system setup program, the Secondary SCSI category must
>     > be set to On and the Boot Sequence category must be set to Diskette
>     > First .
>     >      * In the SCSI Select utility, the BIOS Support For Bootable CD-
>     > ROM category must be set to Enabled.
>     > "
>     >
>
>     It was actually my mistake. It says in the boot options only
>     diskette or
>     hard drive, but it does indeed boot from CD, so installation works
>     fine.
>
>     > I looked through the update notes of several BIOS updates and missed
>     > the explicit addition of boot menu changes.  Yes, I can just
>     grab the
>     > latest and greatest.... http://tinyurl.com/29ytzf
>     >
>
>     I think I found a more up to date one. Can you try this?
>
>     http://tinyurl.com/2qz2h9 <http://tinyurl.com/2qz2h9>
>
Alright, I'll make a copy of this one.