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On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 16:22, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> Going into a pseudo single user mode to flash is not acceptable.  You
> need to be able to flash from any tty.  From any web interface.  From
> any command.  My unit will flash with a simple flash command while the
> system is running.

right, you have a program that accepts a flash image, authenicates it,
and copies it to a flash partition, once this is done, *then* you signal
init.