From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 23 04:12:21 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84F1C16A4CE for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 04:12:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [63.229.157.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D44543D2F for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 04:12:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from runaround.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp1000.lariat.org@lariat.org [63.229.157.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA04167; Thu, 22 Jul 2004 22:12:09 -0600 (MDT) X-message-flag: Warning! Use of Microsoft Outlook renders your system susceptible to Internet worms. Message-Id: <6.1.1.1.2.20040722220519.0951b4e0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.1.1.1 Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 22:12:08 -0600 To: outi@bytephobia.de From: Brett Glass In-Reply-To: <20040721093433.68df6787@duality.bytephobia.de> References: <6.1.1.1.2.20040720145450.0604eb18@localhost> <20040721093433.68df6787@duality.bytephobia.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell PERC RAID controller X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 04:12:21 -0000 At 01:34 AM 7/21/2004, Patrick Hurrelmann wrote: >Hi, > >try upgrading with floppy images. we've upgraded all our dell-server (era-cards, system-bios + firmware, raid firmware on different PERC's) by floppys. > >you can download the images and prepare them somewhere else. i took the redhat images and used dd on my freebsd-box to write them to floppys. We've asked Dell for the Red Hat and Windows upgrade CDs. Because they're CDs, and we're not dealing with old Apple or Sun machines, they will almost certainly be in the standard 9660 format. Will there be a file there that's just a straight byte-by-byte image of the sectors of a bootable upgrade floppy? (I hope so; in that case, I could take it to nearly any machine -- including a DOS machine with rawrite or fdimage -- and make a diskette.) --Brett