Re: [Astlinux-users] new image format

[Lonnie A. <li...@lo...>]

On Jan 15, 2007, at 4:29 PM, Kristian Kielhofner wrote:

> On 1/15/07, Terry Markovich <tm...@be...> wrote:
>>
>> 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,
>
>   Star2Star is (and has been using) a runnix/astlinux/syslinux/kexec
> based bootloader for quite some time.  However, I haven't made the
> specific configuration available because a) I want to make some
> improvments first and b) because we control the entire appliance and
> network, I can be much more certain that I'm not forgetting something
> and someone's data might go missing, etc.
>
>   It's been working quite well.
>
>   Here is what we are doing:
>
> - Partition CF card with one 128mb FAT16 partition.  This holds
> syslinux, runnix, and full ext2 AstLinux disk images (actually more
> than that - they are identical to the .img files already created)
>
> - CF boots, syslinux boots runnix
>
> - runnix looks for a "good" AstLinux image and boots it.  If none is
> found, it connects to our provisioning server (runnix supports
> dhcp/ssh/wget/etc/etc) and downloads, verifies, installs and boots the
> new AstLinux image.  It oarses a config file for this info.
>
>   Runnix has been at 0.1 since I created it in August last year.  I
> need some more time to work on it!  Maybe you'd like to help? :)
>
> -- 
Kristian,

In this environment...

1) Where does VoiceMail get stored?  The FAT16 partition?

2) How would a person install an AGI?

Lonnie