erik quanstrom ha scritto:
On Thu Feb 14 08:58:03 EST 2013, [email protected] wrote:
Hi, all.

Is it possibile to upgrade the Atom distro likewise the Bell's one ?
hi, not really.  (working on it)  right now, mkfs makes a pretty good
substitute.  it knows enough not to copy older files.  the problem is
not stepping not overwriting running programs.

the straightforward way to do this is boot from cd and use mkfs
to copy from the cd.  you'll have to mount your fs by hand.

the complicated way is to create a ramfs to hide the executables
you're using and hopefully rio won't crash while you're doing this,
but basically  (just an example, i haven't debugged this)

        ramfs
        @{cd /bin; tar c .} | @{cd /tmp; tar x} # all of it; we have the memory
        path=(/tmp)
        # cd /tmp                               # not necessary; mkfs doesn't 
delete

        cdfs -d $mydev
        9660srv -f /mnt/cd/d000

        mount /srv/boot /n/boot
        # not sure if you want -p; -k is paranoia
        disk/mkfs -bkpvd /n/boot -s /n/d000 <{echo +}

- erik


Thank you very much, Erik.
I'll try to upgrade this way a test box I should have ... somewhere.
Many days ago you gave me some suggestions about multicast.
On my home network the one-to many communication between 7 boxes works quite fine.

adriano


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