How to Identify the BIOS Version
David Curry
dsccable at comcast.net
Wed Jan 19 17:11:09 UTC 2005
Dave Gavin wrote:
>On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:48:32 -0500
>David Curry <dsccable at comcast.net> wrote:
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>>Michael Scottaline wrote:
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>>>On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 01:03:38 -0500
>>>David Curry <dsccable at comcast.net> insightfully noted:
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>>><snippage>
>>>DC>My system (FC-2) doesn't seem to recognize "dmidecode" as a command.
>>><further snippage>
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>>>It will if you run it as root (or sudo) from /usr/sbin/dmidecode
>>>HTH,
>>>Mike
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>>Thanks, Mike. I tried exactly what you suggest. The result was a
>>system response advising that dmidecode was not a bash command.
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>>Paul Howarth may have provided the answer to my riddle in noting that
>>dmidecode is an FC-3 kernel facility. I am using FC-2.
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><SNIP>
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> dmidecode is part of kernel-utils, try "yum install kernel-utils" and it's
>been around since at least 7.3.
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>Dave
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Thanks Dave.
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