Re: [Astlinux-users] new image format

[Terry M. <tm...@be...>]

On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 17:29 -0500, 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,

It sounds pretty interesting.  I took a look at the SF site, it looks
similar to what I did for my initrd image, just configure buildroot2 for
a minimal set of packages and then build the image.  Are the files in
SF's svn repository the latest you are using?

So does the AstLinux image that gets loaded by runnix get loop mounted?

Terry