On 26/10/2007, Marcel Janssen <korgull@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I wonder how other fedora users upgrade their BIOS when they need it and would > be happy to hear about other creative and preferably simple solutions (but > leaving the floppy drive on my dusty shelf). For Dell systems it is particularly trivial under linux: http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Oss/Firmware_Tools http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Repository/firmware firmware-tools and firmware-dell-addons are in the Fedora repos (yum install firmware*). There is also the biosdisk tool which automates creating a bootable dos image with the firmware added, and adding it to the bootloader http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml (scroll down a bit to biosdisk). HTH
