Did ya happen to try your friend Google? A simple search for "Dell Debian OMSA" garnered a bounty of replies and among the gems I was able to locate http://linux.dell.com/files/openmanage-contributions/debian/omsa5.1/ in about 5 minutes. It's only 32-bit, but then Dell doesn't even have a 64-bit version for RedHat yet to my knowledge. Albretch Mueller wrote: > ~ > DELL supports only RedHat and Suse (and Windows ...) and I was able > to update my BIOS basically from a Debian-based live CD using the > steps provided here: > ~ > http://www.ducea.com/2007/08/27/dell-bios-firmware-updates-on-debian/ > ~ > Now I would to have the kind of management that ESM and OMSA allows, > but the installer is complainign about missing rpm packages > ~ > I know I can use alien to convert rpm to deb packages and I did seach > for such packages even though I couldn't find them, I still think > there might be something like that in Debian > ~ > If there isn't. Is there such thing as a mapping of the functionality > of rpm and deb packages? > ~ > I think I will need to install > ~ > rpm, pciutils, libc, libdl, libm. libc. libpthread, /bin/sh, > srvadmin-omilcore, srvadmin-ipmi, srvadmin-hapi > ~ > Of course I' wish I would use debian packages ... > ~ > Any suggestions? > ~ > Thank you > lbrtchx > >
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