Archive for January 2011
As many of you know that follow my blog I’m an avid user of Linux and Mac. I haven’t had a full-time Windows PC since around 2001, so when I need a BIOS update it can sometimes be painful since most of the tools for updating a PC’s BIOS are written for Windows. Recently I needed to update my Dell D830’s BIOS to A15 from A08 and had to do some serious Googling to figure it out so I thought I would jot it down for others.
Before we begin you’ll need two things installed on your Linux machine…
- The first thing you’ll need is the dellBiosUpdate program. Depending on your distro you’ll need to Google around and find the appropriate package for your distro that contains this program and it’s associated libraries.
- Second you’ll need either Wine installed or an old Windows PC lying around. My wife has an old Dell Windows machine so I chose to use it rather than bloat my Linux distro with Wine.
That’s it for prerequisites, the rest is easy. (more…)
