Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] x86 sysupgrade

2012-01-25 Thread Philip Prindeville
On 1/25/12 7:58 AM, Martin Roecker wrote: > Hi, > > On 23.01.2012 07:28, Philip Prindeville wrote: >> For those of us using x86-based platforms we'd like to have a way to > > do in-place upgrades without losing configuration state. > > How do you perform your updates at the moment? I ask because

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] x86 sysupgrade

2012-01-25 Thread Roberto Riggio
I'm actually using sysupgrade on an alix 2c board and it works. I'm not keeping the actual configuration instead i have a script that: 1. downloads a new configuration from a server (a tar.gz) 2. downloads the new image 3. runs sysupgrade with the option to use an external archive for the confi

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] x86 sysupgrade

2012-01-25 Thread Martin Roecker
Hi, On 23.01.2012 07:28, Philip Prindeville wrote: For those of us using x86-based platforms we'd like to have a way to > do in-place upgrades without losing configuration state. How do you perform your updates at the moment? I ask because the only way to write a new image to my Alix 2D13 ist

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] x86 sysupgrade

2012-01-23 Thread Christoph Thielecke
Hello Philip, > For those of us using x86-based platforms we'd like to have a way to do > in-place upgrades without losing configuration state. I use squashfs images on x86 within backfire 10.03 and saving config works for me (sysupgrade -v and webbased (webif)). I not tested 10.03.1 or trunk on

[OpenWrt-Devel] x86 sysupgrade

2012-01-22 Thread Philip Prindeville
For those of us using x86-based platforms we'd like to have a way to do in-place upgrades without losing configuration state. I understand that (a) we are a smaller community, and (b) the sizing constraints of x86 platforms is very different than (say) a WRT54G-L... memory on a Alix or Geos is