Feature idea: package an installer image as a grub entry before F8. Was [ Re: Very much packages with fc6 tag instead of fc7 in the FC7 tree ]

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Fri Jun 1 19:25:32 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 14:13 -0400, Will Woods wrote:
> Oh definitely. In fact, that's the main reason *I* care about this
> feature. Live-ish upgrades would be a cool feature and save our users
> some time, but making system upgrades easier to script is the icing on
> the cake for me.
> 

But how do we get around all the mess? Items like:

 - ext3->ext4 conversion
 - lvm format changes
 - dev->udev
 - etc. etc.

Those things can't be handled in a live update. You need to be outside
of the system to do them or you risk losing data and badly upsetting the
running system.


-sv





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