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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>,
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Subject: Re: Is it soup yet? :-)
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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
> 


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