[CUWiN-Dev] much simpler upgrades

[David Young]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 11:12:07PM -0600, Bryan Cribbs wrote:
> Tom, you mentioned you might try and do some on-air 
> upgrades this weekend, even though we didn't sort out 
> the Windows configuration issues on Thursday.
> 
> I realized there is a much simpler way we could facilitate
> using any i386 laptop to do upgrades, without requiring 
> installing or configuring anything at all on it.
> 
> If you boot a laptop off a CD with a CUWiN image, you 
> become a walking CUWiN node, automatically meshing with 
> other CUWiN nodes, already running an sshd.
> The CUWiN CD has plenty of free space to hold a copy of 
> the upgrade tgz file, and that's easy to add to the build.
> 
> Can anyone see downsides to this?

Very old nodes will not mesh with new nodes (different SSID, different
routing software).

Dave

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