I was able to perform the upgrade using the interactive method, by booting directly from the `bsd.rd` file located on the USB drive. All that remains is to run "fw_update -p",and to manually update the few packages and their dependencies. Thanks to everyone. -- Secured with Tuta Mail: https://tuta.com/free-email
24 Oct 2026, 23:47 by [email protected]: > > >> On Oct 24, 2026, at 3:30 PM, Thomas Kupper <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> On 24.10.2026 21:23, Brian Brombacher wrote: >> >>>>> 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 >>> >>>>> 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 <https://www.openbsd.org/faq/ >>> faq4.html> >>> >> >> But you still need to update all installed apps and for that a local repo >> somewhere will be necessary. >> > > Yes, you are correct, packages are a problem. The i386 packages directory > for 8.0 is 56 GB. They’d be better off downloading just what they need, if > at all possible. >
