Re: Live Upgrade for Linux

From: Kurt Seifried (bt@seifried.org)
Date: 03/27/03

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    From: "Kurt Seifried" <bt@seifried.org>
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Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 16:38:49 -0800

    Bad news: No, this type of thing does not exist as a nice package.

    Good news: rolling your own isn't to hard.

    You can use user mode Linux (UML) to test a system configuration/etc (of
    course you can't fully test hardware issues, but it will let you test the
    software/etc).

    You could use vmware to test a system configuration/etc (of course you can't
    fully test hardware issues, but it will let you test the software/etc).

    You can setup extra partitions, i.e. /var2, /usr2, /etc2, whatever and
    populate them, many RPM's are relocatable, although not all are. One way to
    get around this would be to chroot into the alternate "/" and then install
    /etc, reconfigure your lilo.conf/grub.conf, and if it goes boom reboot to
    the original system. i.e. copy all the rpm's into a dir then do a
    rpm -Uvh --force --nodep *.rpm, make sure /dev/ is created, copy in /etc,
    and so on.

    You could use a tool such as alien to rip the rpm apart and turn it into a
    tarball, thus allowing you to forcibly relocate files if the rpm doesn't
    support relocation.

    http://www.seifried.org/lasg/software/

    Hope this helps.

    Kurt Seifried, kurt@seifried.org
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