[CUWiN-Dev] Re: much simpler upgrades

[tom]

I went by the node at 707 Race last night just to see how far I could get, 
but ran into the expected problem of not being able to identify the exact IP 
address of the node. I could see both the cuwireless.net and cuw networks, 
but short of doing an ip scan on the entire range (169.254.0.0 to 
169.254.254.254, which would take forever) I couldn't think of a good way to 
determine the node's IP.

This idea of turning a laptop into a mobile node seems promising, so I 
thought I would try it out. Using the 0.5.5 image that's on the 
cuwireless.net page, I made a bootable CD and booted to it, but after 
announcing its doing the primary bootstrap it just sits there. I seem to 
recall that it's supposed to take a while, but how long are talking? What's 
supposed to happen, will it give me a command line?

Tom

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bryan Cribbs" <bdcribbs at ojctech.com>
To: "tom" <tom at anotherwastedday.com>
Cc: <cu-wireless-dev at cuwireless.net>
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 11:12 PM
Subject: much simpler upgrades


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?

-Bryan