Upgrading

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To upgrade your Kit's software, download the latest version from the RedPost/OpenSource Sourceforge Project. Then do the following:

1. From the command line, create an "upgrade" directory and uncompress the downloaded image 

mkdir upgrade
mv redpost_kit...tar.bz2 upgrade
tar -xvjf upgrade/redpost_kit...tar.bz2
rm upgrade/redpost_kit...tar.bz2

2. Mount your USB drive 

mkdir usbdrive
mount /dev/sda1 usbdrive/

3. Backup your redpost.conf file and any images you have in the posts/ directory 

cp usbdrive/redpost.conf redpost.conf.old
mkdir postsold
cp usbdrive/posts/* postsold/

4. Remove the old files and copy the new files onto the drive (note that you cannot re-use your old backup.tar.gz if you have made customizations to it...because we remastered DSL and because backup.tar.gz writes over our changes to the KNOPPIX master, you'll have to create a new backup.tar.gz) 

rm -R usbdrive/*
cp -Rp upgrade/* usbdrive/

5. Merge any settings you want to save (mainly network settings) into the new redpost.conf and copy over any images in postsold/ you would like to restore

6. Unmount the drive and run syslinux 

umount usbdrive/
syslinux -s /dev/sda1
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