Users Guide
28 Using Dell Update Packages
Typical Usage Scenarios
Scenario One—Retasking a System
You are the system administrator for a large company. Your group requires an
additional system to support a new financial analysis package, and you have
access to a Dell system that is no longer in use, from another department
within the company. Because the Dell system has an older operating system
installed on it, you plan to upgrade the operating system before installing the
new financial application. You also plan to install the most current BIOS and
ESM firmware offered by Dell, as well as install the Dell OpenManage Server
Administrator systems management software.
To prepare the system to run the company's new financial software, perform
the following general steps:
1
Use the
Dell Systems Management Tools and Documentation
DVD that
came with the Dell system to install the most current version of the
Red Hat
®
Enterprise Linux
®
AS operating system.
2
Log on to
support.dell.com
, select
Drivers and Downloads
and enter the
Dell hardware service tag for the Dell system. Otherwise, you can also
select the
Model
.
3
Locate the BIOS and ESM firmware DUPs for the Dell system and
download them.
Additionally, download the Server Administrator application.
4
Start to verify the signature of the packages by first downloading the
following two files from
support.dell.com
:
• PE2850-BIOS-LX-A20.bin.sign
• PE2850-BIOS-LX-A20.bin