[Click] CD, flash image

[Bob Keyes]

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, John Bicket wrote:

>
> Hi Bob,
>
> answers inline.
>
> Bob Keyes [bob at sinister.com] wrote:
> >Regarding the roofnet images,
> >I note that the latest roofnet releases are for the 2.4.26 kernel, whereas
> >the CDs install the 2.4.20rn kernel. I note the i386/RPMS directory which
> >has a kernel 2.4.26 RPM. I dropped that and other things which are newer
> >in that directory onto the CD, and installed, but ran into problems. First
> >is that in /boot the kernel is vmlinuz-2.4.20 where grub.conf is looking
> >for vmlinuz-2.4.20-4. I know how to boot up with a live CD, and make a
> >symlink in /boot to fix this, but it occurs to me that I am not doing this
> >upgrade the correct way, as the new roofnet dist that I dropped onto the
> >CD isn't installed for some reason. So, what is the proper way for doing
> >this?
>
> 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

The system built by this CD suffers from the exact same problem that I
described with the one I build, which is the file name difference in the
kernel image.