I can't create a software that integrates the original binaries into my image for a simple reason: Those who will benefit the most from my upgrade file are those that are _not_ Unix guys but want additional software on their empegs. And those people most certainly use Windows, which is not capable of writing to an ext2 image.

Hm there has been some talk of getting e2tools compiled for win32 to do just this... I think this would be beneficial because the stuff from /empeg/ on the empeg-distributed upgrade could be merged with your stuff from your upgrade file (/bin, /usr, etc) and put onto /dev/hda5 (the default root partition.) This leaves /dev/hda2 free for user apps. And it'd be legit. If e2tools was working on win32, wouldn't it be theoretically possible to combine the files onto one partition?

I currently have telnetd running from the music partition, and no sync or fsck failed yet. Are there any verified incidents where that happened?

Yeah, I think so...

http://empeg.comms.net/php/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Board=empeg_tech&Number=96153

http://empeg.comms.net/php/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=empeg_tech&Number=101269