On 2006/02/11 02:43, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > One of the boxes is OpenBSD 3.6, and I'd like to upgrade it to 3.8, > and then compile -current (I want to play with the kernel alongside > sensors.h / lm(4)).
3.8 -> current/3.9-beta requires tedious and unnecessary steps. don't bother, install a snapshot. bsd.rd or tar xzpf should do nicely (see openbsd.org upgrade guide and 'following -current' for details - some parts of 'following -current' refer to compiler changes which you don't need to worry about if you install object code rather than upgrade from source). > If I'll choose to install 3.8, then will I be able to leave my > partitioning scheme and contents of my custom partitions intact? Or > will I have to repartition the drive? should be fine intact - you have plenty of space on /usr for the libs which are now larger since they have debugging information (and very useful it is too). if you were tighter on space (mainly in /usr), you would want to make sure softdep is off while you upgrade. > P.S. Is the upgrade really that simple and straightforward on OpenBSD > as it seems to be? :-) yes, pretty much. > P.P.S. BTW, as you can see I have some free disc space left... Is it > possible to install two versions of OpenBSD on separate slices of one > HDD and multiboot them? Or better and simpler just do the upgrade? :-) upgrade is probably simpler.
