Finding debian etch iso’s was little crucial when things doesn’t work well during upgrades. Especially when the drives go wrong and you have to continue running the good old distribution, better keep a copy of the ISO’s.
Here I found those ISO’s to get going.
http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r7/i386/iso-cd/
http://iso.linuxquestions.org/debian/debian-gnulinux-4.0r1-etch/
It has become quite simple to upgrade the DELL Servers firmwares if you’re running Linux on them.
Find the repos from Linux portal of Dell.
# set up repos
wget -q -O – http://linux.dell.com/repo/community/bootstrap.cgi | bash
wget -q -O – http://linux.dell.com/repo/firmware/bootstrap.cgi | bash
Install the firmware tools
yum -y install firmware-addon-dell
And here you go. Update BIOS updates/firmwares easily.
# install BIOS update
yum -y install $(bootstrap_firmware)
update_firmware
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FUEL tries to provide a standardized and consistent computer interface for users. FUEL Kannada Evaluation meet will be a concrete move towards the aforementioned problem and after the meet, FUEL will come with the standard translation of entries in Kannada language for the first time that are frequently being used by a normal user. This is a community project initiated by Red Hat. We invite linguists, translators, and users to participate who are serious to the cause of localization of computer in Kannada language. Website: https://fedorahosted.org/fuel/ and http://www.fuelproject.org Venue: Center for Internet and Society Start Time: 9.30 AM Contact: Shankar Prasad +91-9967064285; Omshivaprakash +91-9902026518 Tags: FUEL, Kannada, Sanchaya, Standardization Those who doesn’t like configuring a long list of alert mechanism of OMSA on Dell servers, here comes a savior – check_openmanage Nagios plugin. Making life easier. More info on this plugin: Here are some of its results: dell-server01 ~$ check_openmanage nagios-server ~$ check_openmanage -H dell-server02 It’s neat output and nagios ability to keep us alerted about server issues via email, sound alert through nagios plugins etc makes it feel good to keep a healthier RAID array running on servers. Tags: check_openmanage, Dell, OMSA, OpenManageWorkshop on the standardization of Kannada Computing Terminology
A two day workshop on the Standardization of Kannada Computing Terminologies has been organized on January 28-29, 2012 at: Center for Internet and Society, Bangalore with the help of CIS and Sanchaya (sanchaya.net), under the FUEL (Frequently Used Entries for Localization) project. The workshop aims at the community review and standardization of frequently encountered computing terminologies in Kannada. Also, this workshop is first of its kind wherein discussion amongst Kannada linguists, translators, journalists, writers and users would take place and a consensus would reach upon the final translation of computing terminologies in Kannada. FUEL Kannada Evaluation meet mainly aims at solving the problem of inconsistency and lack of standardization in software translations.
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