Hi,
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.
OpenBSD is stable, isn't it? :)
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?
No. You should always do a one-by-one update. I got a tach in that too.
You can skip perhaps one release, but not soo many. I had troubles with
5.2 -> 5.4 which I was able to fix, but I would have spent less time by
issuing upgrades...
If you have enough disk-space, I'd just download all releases and using
the very fine upgrade tool... the advantage is that you can keep the
machine running at any moment and continue at a later stage, quick!
Otherwise, backup, format, reinstall...
Riccardo
