Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 19:51:48 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: "Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= " <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no> Cc: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it soup yet? :-) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.981111194903.16947A-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpd86tvepa.fsf@grjottunagard.ifi.uio.no>
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On 12 Nov 1998, Dag-Erling C. [iso-8859-1] Smørgrav wrote: > Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> writes: > > These are "embedded" FreeBSD machines. > > they are all over the world. > > We are certainly not in the position of bringing each back to the factory! > > Do they work? > > If they do, why upgrade them? Security patches etc. > > If they don't, you have to fix them anyway. they fetch updates overr the net. but they don't have code to replace the bootblocks to do that would mean 2 upgrades, one to get the new software that CAN do so, and one to replace them. > > If you have the option of upgrading them at all (through remote > administration), is it really that hard to run the *one* *single* > command that's needed to upgrade the boot blocks? > > # disklabel -B -b /boot/boot1 -s /boot/boot2 /dev/foo0s1 > > Even *I* can do that ;) You assume there is a shell available.. (which there definitly is not). > > (OBTW, I assume you're talking about Interjets...?) of course... > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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