> On Oct 24, 2026, at 2:17 PM, Thomas Kupper <[email protected]> wrote: > > [email protected] wrote on 24.10.2026 06:41: >> Hello, >> I have an encrypted installation of OpenBSD 7.9 i386 on a hard drive. This >> is on a computer with no internet connection, completely offline. Is there a >> way to upgrade to 8.0 using a USB drive? If so, how? > > You can rsync an OpenBSD mirror's i386 files to an USB stick and point > sysupgrade to it. And point installurl(5) to the USB stick. Needs quite a lot > of space but same method can be used for later updates. >
The file “install80.img” was created for this purpose. https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html
