Creating a bootable USB device with Rufus for updating Dell PowerEdge servers
This article provides information about making an USB device bootable and integrating an update-image (ISO-file). For servers without an optical drive (DVD) or a configured integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) this is an alternative way of updating all server firmwares in one single step.
To create a bootable USB device, you can use the freeware tool Rufus (Figure 1).
Note: Rufus is not a Dell certified software. Installation and use on own risk. We share our best practices with Rufus but do not support issues regarding this program.
- Download the tool to a Windows system
- Download the matching ISO image for the server you want to update from this list of repositories
- Start the tool
- Choose the USB device
- Select FAT32
- Choose the downloaded ISO-file
- Click on Start to create the media
- Restart the server and boot from the created device
Figure 1 – Creating a bootable media via Rufus