Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux
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On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 02:38:04PM +1000, CaT wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 12:19:39AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
> > > The sensible way to handle hardware support independent of any installed
> > > software would be to ship each pc with a bootable CD with custom Dell test
> > > software. Linux would make a convenient base for such a CD.
> > This is something I have mentioned in other places: bios updates,
> > hardware testing and other issues. You need a linux-based or similar
> > test cd so that if have a hardware issue or need a bios update that the
> > tech support folks stop saying 'but you need to use windows for us to
> > diagnose the problem before we can authorizes this' or similar.
>
> FWIW, the diagnostics, etc CD that Dell ships with servers is Linux
> based.
As I mentioned, I found a cd for servers for management but nothing
about diagnostics. Do you have a url or more info so that I google
better?
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