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1. http://tkurek.blogspot.de/2013/06/how-to-upgrade-dell-bios-on-ubuntu.html

apt-get install smbios-utils
getSystemId
Libsmbios version:      2.2.28
Product Name:           Vostro 3560
Vendor:                 Dell Inc.
BIOS Version:           A10
System ID:              0x056E
Service Tag:            xxxxxxx
Express Service Code:   nnnnnnnnnnn
Asset Tag:              
Property Ownership Tag:

BIOS Upsate von der DELL Homepage mit Hilfe des Service TAGs besorgen. Die heruntergeladene *.EXE Datei läßt sich leider nicht in einem vom USB-Stick gebooteten FreeDOS ausführen. Daher muss das neue BIOS erst separat entpackt werden.

7z x 3560A17.exe 

7-Zip [64] 9.20  Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov  2010-11-18
p7zip Version 9.20 (locale=de_DE.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,8 CPUs)

Processing archive: 3560A17.exe

Extracting  Ding.wav
Extracting  platform.ini
Extracting  QCL20A17_win.fd
Extracting  FlsHook.exe
Extracting  FWUpdLcl.exe
Extracting  InsydeFlash.exe
Extracting  FlsHookDll.dll
Extracting  iscflash.dll
Extracting  xerces-c_2_7.dll
Extracting  iscflash.sys
Extracting  iscflashx64.sys

Everything is Ok

Files: 11
Size:       11994745
Compressed: 4714072