Re: NetBSD and root fs

[Hubert Feyrer <hubert%feyrer.de@localhost>]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Marcin Jessa wrote:
> What I mean is to upgrade some of the files like kernel, files in /etc,

Ah. That's not "firmware".


> or e.g. to be able change the layout of the website used to configure 
> the router.

um... vi *.html :)
(vi == Visual Internet - used for many websites! :)

In NetBSD, you just replace the files you want to replace, and that's it.
At worst, you have to reboot (for kernel) or restart some service to read 
new/changed files. Again, this is standard NetBSD operation - maybe see 
http://www.netbsd.org/guide/en/part-compile.html, src/BUILDING and 
src/UPDATING for some ideas.


 - Hubert

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