Re: Live Upgrade for Linux

On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 02:20:27PM -0600, Kelly Sauke wrote:
> What Live Upgrade does under solaris is it creates a complete

Ahh! That's kindof a cool idea.

When partitioning your hard drives, make duplicates of your "replicated" filesystems, and ask /etc/fstab to mount them under /testing/ in their normal ordering. Then, use either the packaging tool's --chroot option (I expect that all tools can be asked to use a chroot environment) or just use the chroot command to run them all within the little environment.

Then, a few minutes with a text editor and /etc/lilo.conf, /etc/grub.conf, /etc/yaboot.conf, whatever, and you're good to go. (A small script to modify/replace /etc/fstab would probably help smooth the process along.)

:)

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