On 12/02/23 14:30, Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp. wrote:
> I'm running it on older low end (P4 class) PCs with various NICs.
Me too.
> I boot from old hard disks that spin down after boot.
Me, CD-ROM + floppy for config.
> Is there some way I
> could push a disk image onto those? I can figure out the modules piece
> separately...
This should be totally easy and simple to do if you have a normal LEAF
setup where everything runs from a ramdrive.
In such a case you can remove all files on the HD, format the HD,
whatever, that won't affect the running system at all.
You can even do a 'dd' and reimage the HD, if that's what you meant by
'push a disk image'.
Keep in mind where the image file is saved tho - if the file (say due to
it being too big to live in /tmp) exists on the HD and you overwrite it
('dd') with itself, you could get wacky corruption.
OTOH if you can create a partition on the HD that is outside the
physical cylinders that will get written during the imaging then you
could mount that filesys, dd the HD from an images stored on that
filesys, and then boot up into your new system.
So yup, totally doable.
scott
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> - Bob Coffman
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