On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:55:24AM -0300, Sebastian wrote:
Apologies*if this has been discussed, I couldn't find it. I have a single boot FC14 system on a*Dell precision M6500 precision notebook and*wish to update the BIOS. I go to the Dell download site, and for my machine select the closest match to my operating system: RH Enterprise Linux 5. This gives me the only option to download an EXE file: "M6500A06.EXE" Is it possible to update my bios with this file given my current installation? I have*windows Virtual Box under FC14,*or, Do I need to delete my*installation, install windows and reinstall? As I really don't want to do this, a final option to consider: could I install windows via a USB drive (so as to not destroy my current*system) and then install bios?*
http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Repository/firmware
describes how to do this for many (but not all) Dell systems. The firmware repository on linux.dell.com carries firmware payloads for
300 different system types. firmware-addon-dell and firmware-tools
packages are included in Fedora and EPEL, so you only need the firmware payload RPM from the firmware repository then.