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[Bob Keyes]

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, John Bicket wrote:

> We switched kernels. It's kind of a pain to upgrade, as you noted.
> There are a few options:
> - I just built a new cd, which will install your box again.
> (http://pdos.lcs.mit.edu/~jbicket/roofnet.iso)
> - wget pdos/roofnet/dist/install_roofnet.sh
>   sudo sh install_roofnet.sh
>   sudo /home/roofnet/scripts/upgrade_kernel.pl 4

Ah, didn't see the upgrade kernel script...good. But I am going to
download the iso anyhow.

>
> That might not be answering the question you were asking. Let me know if
> it doesn't.

It does.

>
> >
> >With roofnet-minidist, I note that it installs to /dev/hda1, which is sort
> >of strange as that's where my boot disk expects to be. Any reason I can't
> >change this? Or modify the script to make in generic?
>
> We would welcome patches that get it right, that just worked on our
> hardware.

I'll work on a patch.

> >
> >Also in the minidist, the install script tries to nfs mount a system at
> >MIT and copy over the files. I don't have permission to access this. Are
> >these any different than the files that are in the remainder of the
> >minidist tarball?
>
> ah. it's shouldn't be any different. We will fix that so either it's
> always up to date or the nfs is readable from anywhere.

Good. Thanks.

> roofnet at pdos is probably better for specific questions like these.

I will use that mailing list in the future.

Regards,
Bob Keyes