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Document offline USB upgrades. Signed-off-by: Colin Walters <[email protected]>
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# Managing bootc systems | ||
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## Performing offline updates via USB | ||
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In a usage scenario where the operating system update is in a fully | ||
disconnected environment and you want to perform updates via e.g. inserting | ||
a USB drive, one can do this by copying the desired OS container image to | ||
e.g. an `oci` directory: | ||
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```bash | ||
skopeo copy docker://quay.io/exampleos/myos:latest oci:/path/to/filesystem/myos.oci | ||
``` | ||
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Then once the USB device containing the `myos.oci` OCI directory is mounted | ||
on the target, use | ||
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```bash | ||
bootc switch --transport oci /var/mnt/usb/myos.oci | ||
``` | ||
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The above command can only be invoked once currently; thereafter, use `bootc upgrade` | ||
as normal to fetch updates from the USB device. | ||
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This process can all be automated by creating systemd | ||
units that look for a USB device with a specific label, mount (optionally with LUKS | ||
for example), and then trigger the bootc upgrade. |