firmware

[adarsh_4]

i downloaded the firmware for alpha ds10 from the HP site. I used iso bluster to extract the image and burned it on a cd. the system read a error as "not a bootable disc".

please advise as to how can i get the firmware. I already tested the cd rom and its working.

[Steven Schweda]

> i downloaded the firmware for alpha ds10
> from the HP site.

Some of us non-psychics can't tell from that
description what you downloaded.

Should I know what "iso bluster" is? Or what
"extract the image" means?

[John Gillings]

adarsh,

It shouldn't have been necessary to use "iso buster". Just follow the instructions on the HP site for creating your CD. It's possible the CD is a hybrid, which iso buster won't necessarily understand.

(for Steven's benefit, iso buster is a PC utility which can be used to diagnose or recover data from damaged iso 9660 CDs, or examine the contents of iso images).

[adarsh_4]

thanks,i first did exactly what the site was instructing but still no luck.

[Steven Schweda]

> [...] first did exactly what the site was
> instructing but still no luck.

Even better. Now I don't know what you
downloaded, I don't know what you did with
it, and I don't know what happened when you
did it. Could you possibly provide any less
useful information? (I don't see how.)

[adarsh_4]

I first download the firmware from this site http://h18002.www1.hp.com/alphaserver/firmware/.

later I made a cd of the image that i downloaded and when i try to update the firmware form the cd, it says that the cd is not bootable.

i hope i have given the information u wanted

[GuentherF]

I just took a look at that webpage. I don't see an option for an ISO image to download. But there are easy step-by-step instructions on how tp update the firmware on a DS10.

So adarsh, which one did you try? I know if ISO Buster is your only tool all files are ISO images, right? ;-)

/Guenther

[adarsh_4]

the option which says "as shown below"

Make Your Own Bootable Firmware CD

To make your own bootable CD only image (bootable DVD's are not supported), download the zipped .iso image (over 200MB) to a PC with CD writing abilities. Create your CD then boot the CD to update firmware on one of the systems listed on CD.

this is on the link that I mentioned

[Steven Schweda]

> I first download the firmware from this
> site [...]

Is there even a small chance that you will
ever tell us exactly what you downloaded?

> later I made a cd of the image [...]

Or exactly what you did with it after you
downloaded it?

> i hope i have given the information u wanted

You didn't come close.

[adarsh_4]

when u go to that site I mentioned, you will see that it gives a option of downloading the image file of the firmware, its a .iso file.

first I just burned the whole file as downloaded to a cd

second- i used the ios bluster and then burned the cd.