On 10:58, Sun 31 Jan 10, James Stocks wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I use a Soekris net5501 running OpenBSD 4.6 (i386) to firewall my small > network. I want to follow the -stable release to ensure that the system > remains secure. From reading the OpenBSD documentation, I am left with the > impression that: > > - The only way to keep OpenBSD up to date in terms of security patches is to > build my own system from -stable. > - Cross compiling a system is not supported. > > I would rather not build a release on the Soekris box because it is quite slow > and because it doesn't presently have enough disk space to store a complete > source tree. All my other computers are either PowerPC or AMD64, so I don't > believe these can be used to build an i386 release.
You can install i386 on an amd64 machine without trouble. It will run in 32bits mode instead of 64bits. > > I would welcome any suggestions regarding the best way to accomplish this. > > Regards, > James. > -- Michiel van Baak [email protected] http://michiel.vanbaak.eu GnuPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x71C946BD "Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?"
