Re: [Astlinux-users] Doing an OS upgrade without network connectivity

[Michael K. <mic...@ip...>]

Thanks Lonnie. Yeah that's way too hard. I will wait for them to open up the firewall.

Regards
Michael Knill

On 26/6/2022, 1:20 am, "Lonnie Abelbeck" <li...@lo...> wrote:

    Hi Michael,

    Do you have physical access?  If "yes" a local attached USB drive can be used as a "local repo".

    Below is an example, using an PC Engines APU2 "genx86_64-serial" image.
    ======================
    Insert FAT formatted USB drive.

    pbx4 ~ # fdisk -l
    --
    ...
    Device     Boot Start    End Sectors   Size Id Type
    /dev/sdb1  *       63 524159  524097 255.9M  6 FAT16
    --

    pbx4 ~ # mkdir /tmp/disk
    pbx4 ~ # mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /tmp/disk

    ## Only needed to create a local repo on the USB drive, could be performed outside of AstLinux if desired.
    ## Requires public network access.
    pbx4 ~ # mkdir -p /tmp/disk/ast13se-firmware-1.x/genx86_64-serial
    pbx4 ~ # cd /tmp/disk/ast13se-firmware-1.x/genx86_64-serial/

    pbx4 genx86_64-serial # curl -LO https://astlinux-project.org/mirror/ast13se-firmware-1.x/genx86_64-serial/ver
    pbx4 genx86_64-serial # curl -LO https://astlinux-project.org/mirror/ast13se-firmware-1.x/genx86_64-serial/astlinux-1.4.6.tar.gz
    pbx4 genx86_64-serial # curl -LO https://astlinux-project.org/mirror/ast13se-firmware-1.x/genx86_64-serial/astlinux-1.4.6.tar.gz.sha1
    ## End of create a local repo on the USB drive

    ## Now assume the USB drive was pre-configured and skip the above "create a local repo" commands.

    ## Check the local repo files:
    pbx4 ~ # cd
    pbx4 ~ # find /tmp/disk/ast13se-firmware-1.x/
    /tmp/disk/ast13se-firmware-1.x/
    /tmp/disk/ast13se-firmware-1.x/genx86_64-serial
    /tmp/disk/ast13se-firmware-1.x/genx86_64-serial/ver
    /tmp/disk/ast13se-firmware-1.x/genx86_64-serial/astlinux-1.4.6.tar.gz
    /tmp/disk/ast13se-firmware-1.x/genx86_64-serial/astlinux-1.4.6.tar.gz.sha1

    ## Upgrade using the local (pre-configured) USB drive:
    pbx4 ~ # upgrade-run-image check file:///tmp/disk/ast13se-firmware-1.x
    Current version is: astlinux-1.4-5507-f21c6b,  Newest available version is: astlinux-1.4.6

    pbx4 ~ # upgrade-run-image upgrade file:///tmp/disk/ast13se-firmware-1.x
    Successful upgrade to: astlinux-1.4.6 [after reboot]

    pbx4 ~ # cd
    pbx4 ~ # umount /tmp/disk

    pbx4 ~ # reboot ; exit
    ======================

    And yes, this local repo method can be used for Runnix as well.

    Lonnie

    Tip -> For AstLinux 1.4.2 or later: If you have a exFAT formatted drive use "mount -t exfat ..." instead of "mount -t vfat ..." above.




    > On Jun 24, 2022, at 8:52 PM, Michael Knill <mic...@ip...> wrote:
    > 
    > Is this easy to do?
    > I have a site where they are tough with security and I cant reach the download server currently.
    >  
    > Along with my previous question, a Runnix upgrade without network connectivity may be handy too.
    >  
    > Regards
    >  
    > Michael Knill
    > Managing Director



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