Updating Firmware From The Cd-Rom - HP AlphaServer TS15 Owner's Manual

If you do not have a Web browser, you can access files using anonymous ftp:
ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/
Click down the following directories: Alpha/firmware/readme.html
The README file explains how to download firmware updates.

4.16.2 Updating Firmware from the CD-ROM

Use the following procedure to update the firmware from the quarterly CD-ROM. See
the Alpha Firmware web site for other methods of updating the firmware. At this web
site, you can also obtain files if you are not updating from the CD. Go to
(ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/Digital/Alpha/firmware/readme.html)
1. Shut down the operating system.
2. Turn the system power off and then on.
3. At the SRM console prompt, enter the show device command to determine the drive
name of the CD-ROM drive.
4. Load the Alpha Systems Firmware Update CD into the drive.
5. Boot the system from the CD, using the drive name determined in step 1 (for example,
dqa0).
>>> boot dqa0
6. At the UPD> prompt, enter the list command to list the current revisions of the
firmware.
7. Enter the update command to update the firmware.
8. When the update is complete, enter the list command to verify that the images
successfully copied and are listed with the correct revisions.
9. Enter the exit command to exit the Firmware Update Utility.
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