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skmakine

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Why flash when you can apt-get update
« on: June 28, 2018, 02:16:36 pm »
Is there any benefit at all to flashing the new Debian image from Planet, as opposed to simply using apt to upgrade everything?

For Android, I guess flashing is the only way to upgrade. But perhaps I would then simply flash the boot etc partitions using the new firmware, and leave Debian and Android user data un-touched?
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speculatrix

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Why flash when you can apt-get update
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2018, 02:21:19 pm »
new kernel
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DonOregano

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Why flash when you can apt-get update
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2018, 03:33:48 pm »
Quote from: speculatrix
new kernel

Well, the new kernel can be gotten through other means...

But the reason I wanted to do it was to get the ability to have two different kernels, for experimentation.
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Why flash when you can apt-get update
« Reply #3 on: July 04, 2018, 06:07:48 pm »
you could probably get kexec to chain load a new kernel?
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tuk0z

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Why flash when you can apt-get update
« Reply #4 on: July 05, 2018, 09:34:10 am »
Well Debian won't finish to boot, after I updated yesterday (with 'stretch', 'stretch-backports' and 'debian-security' in apt Debian sources).
I've waited half an hour twice, so I think it's safe to assume my install is borked as of now.
Re-flashing... ye-ah.
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