Excuse me if this has been asked before ( I made a quick search of the
newsgroups), but I will soon be facing the problem of updating a QRTP PC
not connected to the outside network, and which I cannot connect even
briefly to an outside network, for security reasons.
What is the best/suggested way to figure out what updates are available
and get them to the disconnected system?
Previously, John H. Zouck wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.installation:
Excuse me if this has been asked before ( I made a quick search of the
newsgroups), but I will soon be facing the problem of updating a QRTP PC
not connected to the outside network, and which I cannot connect even
briefly to an outside network, for security reasons.What is the best/suggested way to figure out what updates are available
and get them to the disconnected system?I can take removable media (CD-ROM, floppy, etc.) from an
outside-connected system to the disconnected system., just can’t connect
it.
[Not a QSSL response]
If you are updating from the previous release of RTP, download the
CDROM image and burn it. On your target machine, run the package
manager and point it to the CDROM Repository. That should be
sufficient from what I can tell.
If you are updating from a Beta of Patch A, download the CDROM image
and burn it, then erase your old installation and start from scratch.
If you really don’t want to do that, then install Patch A on a
different partition, or move away your old installation, then install
from scratch and re-mount your old installation and copy the
files you want to keep back into your new installation. You will have
to re-do your configuration.
Cheers,
Andrew
Previously, John H. Zouck wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.installation:
Andrew,
Thanks for the reply.
When I wrote this I was thinking of how to do the equivalent of
updating package-at-a-time via the net. Is there a way of
downloading each package file, like you would download an RPM in
Linux, and a way of figuring out dependencies, etc., other than by
the net or complete distribution?
Well, if you have another RTP machine that is attached to the net,
then you can install the old version, and then update it with the
package manager. Select the little check box in the package manager
that says to save a copy of the archive in /pkgs/archive. Now you can
move one archive at a time to the target machine, and put it into
/pkgs/update or something. Create a new target in the package manager
to point to /pkgs/update on the target, and you should see the new
package to install.
I think you should be able to download the packages using http or ftp
if you can just figure out what the URL of the official package
repository on QSSL’s site is. It’s not a secret, so somebody from
QSSL can probably tell you, but it’s not visible from the package
manager either, so it remains a bit of a mystery. The road is getting
smoother, so I’m sure that what you want will be possible soon if it
is not already. I think we need a QSSL answer at this point.
Cheers,
Andrew
Andrew,
Thanks for the reply.
When I wrote this I was thinking of how to do the equivalent of updating
package-at-a-time via the net. Is there a way of downloading each package
file, like you would download an RPM in Linux, and a way of figuring out
dependencies, etc., other than by the net or complete distribution?
Andrew Thomas wrote:
Previously, John H. Zouck wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.installation:
Excuse me if this has been asked before ( I made a quick search of the
newsgroups), but I will soon be facing the problem of updating a QRTP PC
not connected to the outside network, and which I cannot connect even
briefly to an outside network, for security reasons.What is the best/suggested way to figure out what updates are available
and get them to the disconnected system?I can take removable media (CD-ROM, floppy, etc.) from an
outside-connected system to the disconnected system., just can’t connect
it.[Not a QSSL response]
If you are updating from the previous release of RTP, download the
CDROM image and burn it. On your target machine, run the package
manager and point it to the CDROM Repository. That should be
sufficient from what I can tell.If you are updating from a Beta of Patch A, download the CDROM image
and burn it, then erase your old installation and start from scratch.
If you really don’t want to do that, then install Patch A on a
different partition, or move away your old installation, then install
from scratch and re-mount your old installation and copy the
files you want to keep back into your new installation. You will have
to re-do your configuration.Cheers,
Andrew
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 14:26:30 -0500, “John H. Zouck”
<john_zouck@jhuapl.edu> wrote:
Excuse me if this has been asked before ( I made a quick search of the
newsgroups), but I will soon be facing the problem of updating a QRTP PC
not connected to the outside network, and which I cannot connect even
briefly to an outside network, for security reasons.What is the best/suggested way to figure out what updates are available
and get them to the disconnected system?I can take removable media (CD-ROM, floppy, etc.) from an
outside-connected system to the disconnected system., just can’t connect
it.
You may want to look at the thread “QNX6 - System Backups” in
qnxrtp.os for information on creating a image of the whole machine…
If you have a connected machine you can configure it, then
take a snapshot and copy the whole thing to the isolated machine…
-Bill
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John H. Zouck
The Johns Hopkins University
Applied Physics Laboratory