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Linux has a special feature of automount in the Linux kernel. Filesystem can be mounted and unmounted automatically. Its performance is similar to MS Windows. It works well under demands of more saving resources and automatization, like memory of system. An approach to install/update software automatically on embedded platform was proposed. This approach derives from above feature based on embedded environment with Linux OS. Configurations of files related to this feature were introduced. An example in practice was given to realize this approach from universal serial bus (USB) memory disk when USB disk is available.
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Tao, L., Huang, Pw. Automatic software install/update for embedded Linux. J. Shanghai Jiaotong Univ. (Sci. 13, 107–109 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12204-008-0107-7
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