Thanks for all the advice.
It's been working well for 3.6 - 3.9.
It might not be the 'right' way to do things, but I've had no trouble
upgrading machines remotely. YMMV, depending on how busy the thing is.
What I would do is:
Download the relevant *37.tgz and bsd files.
Comment stuff out of rc.conf.local and/or rc.local to reduce what gets
started on boot.
On Friday 22 September 2006 00:39, you wrote:
I have a machine running OpenBSD 3.6 on a remote location that I would
like to upgrade. I only have ssh access unless I buy myself an
expensive plane ticket. I wondered if there's a safe way to upgrade
remotely or should I just wait until I get an
Bernd Schoeller wrote:
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:44:30 +0200, Christopher Vance [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
It might not be the 'right' way to do things, but I've had no trouble
upgrading machines remotely. YMMV, depending on how busy the thing is.
What I would do is:
Please, that is not
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:35:17 +0200, Nick Holland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...] Build out a machine as similar to your
remote machine as you can (and I don't just mean just the OpenBSD
version[*]), back it up. Now, put it in another room, and upgrade it.
If it works, restore, try it again.
On 2006/09/22 16:31, Bernd Schoeller wrote:
remote installation through an SSH connection directly onto a local disk
(assuming you have created an identical disk layout first) [*]. You might
probably want to exclude /usr/src, /usr/ports and other directories that
you can not cause any
With OpenBSD-binary-upgrade you can do it in one swift upgrade:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/software/OpenBSD-binary-upgrade/
Though I recommend you disable the firewall on boot since your
rules will probably not work.
# Han
doing it all in one step is trivial.
Bernd Schoeller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:44:30 +0200, Christopher Vance [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
It might not be the 'right' way to do things, but I've had no trouble
upgrading machines remotely. YMMV, depending on how busy
Chris Cappuccio wrote:
doing it all in one step is trivial.
Please guys. Nick spend a lots of time trying to make the process very
clear and exact for everyone. He put many warning in there and even with
that, some users find ways to shoot themselves in the foot by using none
standard,
On 2006/09/22 13:42, Daniel Ouellet wrote:
Chris Cappuccio wrote:
doing it all in one step is trivial.
Please guys. Nick spend a lots of time trying to make the process very
clear and exact for everyone. He put many warning in there and even with
that, some users find ways to shoot
Hi list,
I have a machine running OpenBSD 3.6 on a remote location that I would
like to upgrade. I only have ssh access unless I buy myself an expensive
plane ticket. I wondered if there's a safe way to upgrade remotely or
should I just wait until I get an opportunity to be in front of the
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