[Voyage-linux] Using a 'standard' voyage image on many remoteboxes

[Rasjid Wilcox]

On 3/23/06, Beat Meier <Beat.Meier at gmx.ch> wrote:
> In the future (Sorry but at this time I have not time) there should be a
> wiki entry
> to update over ethernet, because I think on high tower you don't have serial
> support, or do they?

??!!  The whole point of a 'dual boot' setup is that one can update
over ethernet.  Are you saying that this is not clear from the text? 
Or are you referring to repartitioning an existing single partition
system via ethernet?

> And there should be a note aboute how you can "clone" you current system to
> the backup partition.
> I think not all users of voyage do know how to us dd to copy first to second
> partition.
> If they all know, sorry for the  "insultation" ...

Good idea.

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> BTW: Folks don't you use a log partition to log what is going on on your
> clients like temperature etc???
> I have created a "small" log partition with symlinks.
> In future releases it would be nice if you could elect between "plain"
> installation and with "log partition".
> See also the problem (I don't remember if it was dhcp or what)...
> If you are interested to support this in the future I can give more
> information we can discuss here.

Sounds like a good idea.  I've seen reference to a system (forget
where now) that records the logs to a ramdisk, and then saves it to
flash once every hour, to keep the amount of flash writes low.  Or
perhaps we could use the JFFS2 filesystem - is it hard to add support
for this in Voyage?

Cheers,

Rasjid.