Softupdate and fai-cd

[Michael Tautschnig]

> Hi, Has anyone had experience using the softupdate feature from a CD?  Its
> described in the manual as "updating the running system without doing a
> re-installation".  In this case you'd be running from the CD and updating
> the hard drive installation so you are not updating the *running* system in
> that sense.
> 

I think a key aspect in softupdates is that it updates the system currently
mounted at /; therefore running a softupdate from a CD would rather update that
CD (which it might even do without errors because of unionfs), but of course
this will be without effect.

Best,
Michael

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