You can configure network interfaces from bsd.rd manually, even WPA2 encrypted WiFi, but on upgrade, configuration is borrowed from your installation, so it works as in installed OpenBSD
2014-11-06 18:22 GMT+01:00 Max Fillinger < maximilian.fillin...@uni-duesseldorf.de>: > On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 08:40:39AM -0800, scott wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I've tried unsuccessfully over the last two releases to upgrade my > desktop using bsd.rd/http set retrieval. > > > > What I've done: > > > > cd / > > cp bsd.rd bsd.old.rd > > ftp http://ftp5.usa.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.6/i386/bsd.rd # yes, my > arch is i386 > > > > reboot > > > > boot>boot bsd.rd > > > > Then I begin the upgrade process, and when I get to set selection I > follow the same procedure as shown in: > > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#InstMedia (FAQ 4.5.4), > coincidentally having the same mirror being > > closest to me. > > > > At this point, I get the "couldn't find sets" error (sorry, I don't > remember the exact verbiage). The versions > > looked for were correct, base56.tgz, for example. I tried a few other > mirrors, all with the same result. > > > > I'd appreciate any help :) > > > > -Scott > > > > When you boot bsd.rd, are there any network interfaces configured? What > do you see when you run ifconfig after booting the bsd.rd kernel? > > Something like this happened to me when I configured a trunk interface > to access the internet. Since bsd.rd doesn't (didn't?) do trunk, I had > to configure a network interface before I could download any sets.
