Yes, just installing a new version should get the latest, and be quicker.
Later when you have installed things not in the standard install, and
possibly put them on the SD card where there is more space, you may
need to do upgrade, and possibly would choose to do both.
I am not sure if there is a
> If I understand it correctly, no. If you upgrade, you get new versions
> of each installed package. If you flash, you lose all software you
> installed ”over“ the basic system.
let's forget about additional packages or changed settings for the moment.
a new image should contain newer versions of
Hello
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 03:34:59PM +0200, arne anka wrote:
> > hope this helps
>
> not totally sure :-)
> flashing and doing opkg update && opkg upgrade
> are basically interchangeable, right?
If I understand it correctly, no. If you upgrade, you get new versions
of each installed package.
> hope this helps
not totally sure :-)
flashing and doing opkg update && opkg upgrade
are basically interchangeable, right?
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Hi Arne,
The analogy with Debian would be -
When you first install, kernel files named vmlinuz are put in /boot
and are grabbed by grub
(installed for you usually) to load the kernel..
here the file named uImage is a kernel and is put in section 3 (called
kernel) of the NAND.
and is loaded by the
hi,
while browsing the device-owners list, my uncertainity regarding the
images only grew.
there's uImage and there's root-image. how are the to describe in terms of
desktop distributions (uImage writes bootloader, root-image copies an
image to harddisk like knoppix does?)?
and how does doing
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