1. Specifications

Fritz is a Dell PowerEdge 2970 server, purchased in December 2009 and installed in January 2010. It is a 2xquad core system with six drive bays. it currently has 8GB of memory.

/proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 16
model           : 4
model name      : Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2372 HE
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 2094.762
cache size      : 512 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 4
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 4
apicid          : 0
initial apicid  : 0
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 5
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt
bogomips        : 4192.75
TLB size        : 1024 4K pages
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate

1.1. Service Tag

Get the service tag:

dmidecode -s system-serial-number

2. Squeeze Upgrade

See FritzSqueezeUpgrade