~ Thank you. I am new to DELL server hardware and you let me see I was wrong ~ I thought you had to install first ESM and that OMSA was just a web based interface to it. That is why I hadn't sought to get to OMSA yet ~ Now, what I am actually trying to do is have a way to control PE's super intense/noisy fans ~ I have searched around quite a bit and AFAIK Dell hasn't made those fans' microcontrollers accessible ~ Do you know how to -safely- control them? ~ lbrtchx ~ On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:43 AM, Jeremy T. Bouse <jeremy.bo...@undergrid.net> wrote: > > 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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