Re: [Astlinux-users] new image format

[Kristian K. <kri...@gm...>]

On 1/15/07, Terry Markovich <tm...@be...> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 16:43 -0500, Kristian Kielhofner wrote:
> > On 1/12/07, Terry Markovich <tm...@be...> wrote:
> > > Kristian,
> > >
> > > Are you still working on the "new image format" using
> > > kexec/syslinux/loopback/union?
> > >
> > > I'm working on an Astlinux appliance, and am very interested in easier
> > > upgrade methods in the field.
> > >
> > > Terry Markovich
> > >
> >
> > Terry,
> >
> >   Yes I am.  I'm struggling with how it can be done best.  Any ideas?
> > What are you looking for?
> >
> >
>
> Kristian,
>
> Really just wondering if you had something imminent.  For upgrading my
> appliance, I think I will have a boot partition with a kernel (with all
> needed drivers builtin) and a filesystem in an initrd, which will
> immediately execute an upgrade script.  That way I can then overwrite my
> CF disk with a new partition image (leaving the boot partition in
> place).
>
> Terry
>

Terry,

  I also forget to mention that once AstLinux is loaded, it can
upgrade runnix itself :).


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Kristian Kielhofner