Hmm, you do have an excellent point there. Those disks, it's a miracle they
're still working. I'll think the re-start from bare metal is the best way
forward.
Thank you for your honest answers! At least I didn't get frustrated because
of upgrade hell! :)
2014-02-06 Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net:
On 02/06/14 05:49, davy wrote:
Hi,
I've recently was asked to take over the maintenance of an old
OpenBSD machine, which has not been updated in the last 7 years.
Currently the machine has been running for close to 1000 days on 4.1.
It has been a while since I worked with OpenBSD (shame on me), and
I'm really not sure what the best way would be to upgrade this
machine, knowning I don't have a serial or local access to the box.
Can I do a 4.1 - 5.4 in one shot?
thx! Davy
You have a seven+ year old machine, with comparibly old disks.
My suggestion:
Build out a new machine using -current (yes, not 5.4. you have a big
bump coming with 5.4 to 5.5, but if you install -current now, you are
over the bump...then start back on releases/stable with 5.5). Configure
the new machine exactly as you want it. Now, put it in service, decom
the old machine...or minimum, swap the disks out of the old machine with
these newly configured disks.
This way, you never lose your functioning system...and you can freshen
your hardware, too.
Nick.
