Theo de Raadt-2 wrote > Jonathan Thornburg < > jthorn4242@
> > wrote: > >> I recently reinstalled my main laptop (which was at 6.5-stable/amd64) >> with 6.6/amd64. Almost everything "just worked", and the things that >> didn't were 3rd-party stuff not from OpenBSD. A big thank-you to >> everyone! >> >> And... a specific itch-you-scratched-very-nicely I'd like to praise: >> >> For the past few years I've usually (re)installed OpenBSD by burning a >> boot DVD and then booting that. But this time I found myself with the >> combination of a broken built-in cd/dvd drive, and a computer which >> didn't >> seem to want to boot from USB even after fiddling with bios settings. >> Being able to copy the new (6.6) bsd.rd to an existing filesystem on the >> (running) old OpenBSD system, then boot that bsd.rd to install, was >> really really nice. Thank you! > > well you missed out > > for 6.5 onwards, all you had to was type > > sysmerge > sysupgrade > > for 6.6 onwards you'll only need sysupgrade If I'm not mistaken there was a big discussion some years back with some guy, Rico or something, who suggested that OpenBSD got something similar to apt from Debian. I remember everyone telling him that was a bad idea and eventually Theo asked him to shut up, and oh, now we kindda have it. Go figured, not such a bad idea after all. -- Sent from: http://openbsd-archive.7691.n7.nabble.com/openbsd-user-misc-f3.html
