Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] [BULK] Re: [BULK] installation on CF card

[Frank W. <Fra...@ct...>]

On Tuesday 24 October 2006 10:39, Dick Middleton wrote:
> Ralf Cirksena wrote:
> > On 2006-10-24, 08:38 you wrote:
> >> I use this on 35+ machines, it works like a charm. You should try the
> >> install-on-usb script that comes with DL.
> >
> > Thank you, I'll try it.
>
> I recommend you use 2 USB sticks (or CF cards), one for the OS and one
> for the config.  It just makes it a little easier when you come to
> upgrade the OS or if you want to copy the config to another machine.
>
> I use 256Mb USB sticks each partitioned with a large and small partiton
> so they can be interchanged.  I use a CF card for the hard-drive.  It's
> not supposed to be a good idea (card life) but it's been working fine
> for me for 18mths or more.
>
> Dick
>
Hi

I use 512 MB FlashCards that contain 2 identically sized partitions,
they contain grub and the bootcd.iso.

I keep my configuration on a USB stick.

When I want to (remotely) upgrade, I copy the new bootcd.iso to the 'inacti=
ve'=20
partition on the Flash Card, copy a vmlinuz and an initrd.gz to the boot=20
directory (renaming them in order not to overwrite the existing ones.

I fetch a copy of the etc.tar.bz2 to a local test machine, where I perform =
the=20
actual configuration update, and copy the updated etc.tar.bz2 to the remote=
=20
firewall, next to the new bootcd.iso.

I then create a new grub entry that selects the new
(vmlinuz, initrd.gz, bootcd.iso, etc.tar.bz2) set using the handy=20
DL_config and DL_device command-line args. If all goes well, I copy everyth=
ing=20
in place and go back to normal. If the upgrade should fail (hasn't happened=
=20
yet) I'd need to talk a local guy through hooking up a keyboard/monitor, an=
d=20
selecting the old grub entry.

=46rank


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