From: Adriano Verardo <adriano.verardo@mail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Atom upgrade
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:16:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <511CFFE3.6000305@mail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <267d4baa6305b9c719a1568551b105e8@coraid.com>
erik quanstrom ha scritto:
> On Thu Feb 14 08:58:03 EST 2013, adriano.verardo@mail.com 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
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-14 15:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-14 13:56 Adriano Verardo
2013-02-14 14:29 ` erik quanstrom
2013-02-14 15:16 ` Adriano Verardo [this message]
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