Oracle: Unbreak my Linux Heart

Dell TechCenter has released a LiveDVD image with OMSA to update firmware and BIOS on Dell hardware using a CentOS Linux distro.

Howto convert a LiveCD image to a PXE Boot image . To convert the root of the ISO image to an NFS root and save on the RAM requirements when booting the image [RAM=2x(size of ISO in MB) + 60 MB], read this on PXE booting in general .

Dell's released the latest version of OpenManage 6.5.1 . It provides drivers, BIOS and firmware updates from Linux when running Dell PowerEdge hardware.

My OEL4 servers still have duplicate RPM packages on 64 bit servers. Libs for 32 bit and 64 bit are often installed, even though they may not always be used. When upgrading a package, such as glibc, you run into the error that yum won't touch a package because it finds duplicates. In this case you can try Removing Duplicate RPM Packages or remove a package using an explicit architecture tag: yum package.{i386,i686,x86_64} such as yum remove glibc.i686 . If you have RHEL/OEL5 or higher, you're in luck because you can try to install the package yum-utils and run package-cleanup --cleandupes . yum-utils offer a bunch of useful tools for working with yum repos and so on.