iDRAC6 Firmware Updates via GUI 

just wanted to say I aquired an R515 and am setting up idrac6 for the first time. Found this video after many hours of trying to upload the .exe or .bin into the idrac web gui. Thank you so much for keeping this video up. Fixed my issue. Kuddos

Still usefull in 2021 with idrac 2.92

Why pack the firmware with stupid Windows EXE.

Thanks for the tutorial.

There is nothing difficult about extracting firmware from a windows installer package.

The problem I have is that with the new HTML5 virtual console, my ISO's partway install but then hang. We used 'strace' and 'ps' and found that it was hanging on a 'metacity' process. Metacity is a window manager I think, the old Java console with all its problems was okay and completed the install. Is it possible the new HTML5 doesn't work correctly with graphical stuff in linux in some cases? I've noticed that anaconda kickstart files can take some console/display settings like "inst.text" or "inst.vnc" that might at least get me past that.

at 30% it says it fails, when using windows it does not work either. It also says when installing bmc, that it is not compitable or something in that familiar on my r410

Thanks!

WHY THE HELL DOES DELL PUT DRIVERS AND FIRMWARE IN A WINDOWS INSTALLER!? I'm on Windows, but the installer says my system isn't compatible. WELL DUH, IT'S NOT THE SERVER! Just give me the damn raw files. Now I have to download 7zip and deal with extracting the files from the installer archive. UGH

Sorry, idrac6 issues are a pain. Why isn't there a simple way to update drac firmware using USB at boot?

Thanks for packaging all your firmware updates in a .exe. Obviously everyone runs windows. If you need to extract their lame idrac driver from the ".bin" linux executable, you can dump it into a redhat/centos system, chmod it and run it w/ the --extract command, after that, you can pull it from the firmware directory it creates. Dell... Never again. =\