PowerEdge BMC updates with Debian

http://www.enrici.com/2013/04/12/flash-bmc-dell-sous-debian-wheezy/ has the good infos. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Running "bmcfl32l -i=payload/bmcflsh.dat" didn't produce the desired results. Eventually tried running "./spsetup.sh" from the directory with the extracted files and the BMC firmware appears to have been successfully updated. Huzzah.

ftp://ftp.dell.com/published/Pages/index.html is where you want to start to find the non-Windows versions of the update packages.

Procedure:

• get .BIN file with firmware update from Dell's site.
• unpack downloaded .BIN file like so: cd /var/tmp; bash 1950_ESM_Firmware_XCVN0_LN32_2.50_A00.BIN --extract BMC-FW.
• Add "[arch=amd64,i386]" between "deb" and "http://http.us.debian.org/..." of main Debian archive entry in /etc/apt/sources.list
• dpkg --add-architecture i386
• apt-get update
• apt-get install libgcc1:i386 libstdc++5:i386 libsmbios-bin
• dpkg-reconfigure dash let /bin/sh be bash, because Dell's /bin/sh scripts are really bash-specific
• cd into unpacked BMC firmware binaries directory (/var/tmp/BMC-FW in example above)
• ./spsetup.sh
• ipmitool mc info to confirm the BMC is running the new firmware
• If you care to, remove the newly installed packages, tell dpkg to forget about i386, and make /bin/sh be a real POSIX shell again