Hi Phil in the past I have done this process from a command prompt by first copying the contents of the tar file onto a USB stick and then mounting this device on the target host, and simply copying the files across to the os directory.
regards Mart Phil McKerracher wrote: > Sorry to be thick, but could someone expand the steps to upgrade to 0.6.3, > using only a command prompt on my AstLinux device? Or better still create > a batch file that just does it? I'm starting from a standard 0.6.2 image > on a CF card with plenty of room. > > For example, in the instructions below, step 1 is clear (does it matter > which directory I'm in to start with, though?) but step 2 presumably > involves ftp or wget and finding a suitable writeable location on the CF > card. > > 1. 'mount -o remount,rw /oldroot/cdrom' > 2. Download the new files. The upgrade files would be > astlinux-XXX.tar.gz. For example, if the release is 0.6.0, the files > will be distributed as astlinux-0.6.0-<ARCH>.tar.gz. You could > download these files onto a client PC or on your AstLinux device (in an > area with enough free space) > 3. Expand the archive: tar -xzvf astlinux-0.6.0-<ARCH>.tar.gz > 4. cd astlinux-0.6.0-<ARCH>; cp * /oldroot/cdrom/os (if downloaded and > decompressed on your client PC, you'll want to use a tool to scp the > files to the AstLinux device. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pay...@krisk.org.
