Hi misc! I just successfully sysupgraded a net4801 with a 4GB CFdisk from 6.5 to 6.6.
The net4801 has no display hardware so I wanted to delete the unused sets before rebooting, using "sysupgrade -n". I also don't need to compile on the system (which thanks to "syspatch" should not be necessary), so the "comp" set could also be deleted, as well as the games. The problem in my situation was a "/home" of just 376M, and that "sysupgrade -n" loads all sets into a "/home/_sysupgrade" directory before stopping, and the downloaded sets (it loads ALL the ".tgz" sets referenced in SHA256, besides other files) didn't fit in! That's why the sysupgrade stopped with an error, and the later part of this utility -- which verifies sets, creates the "/auto_update.conf" file and installs the "/bsd.upgrade" kernel --, didn't run. So the system was not ready to reboot into the upgrade kernel. So I modified a copy of the sysupgrade script of the 6.5 system to only *download* the scripts I needed (no delete necessary). Since others may need to upgrade in similar situations, I created a patch against the sysupgrade script (of the 6.6 system, e.g. after the upgrade, but it's almost identical to the 6.5 one) so that you may see how this can be done: I echoed the original sets to the console, redefined the sets I need, and re-echoed these so I could check if everything looks good. Once I was satisfied, I removed the "return" command to let the "sysupgrade -n" run to it's end. After checking that the upgrade files seemed to be at their place, the reboot worked just as planned. Once figured out it's really simple. This old net4801 is slow, but it's nice because it has 7 NICs. KARL's kernel relinking takes quite some time though (but it's not often rebooted). One alix to go ... Thanks to the OpenBSD team for all these tools, and to those who reported their mishaps in similar situations. Peer *** /usr/sbin/sysupgrade Sat Oct 12 18:52:33 2019 --- sysupgrade Fri Oct 25 02:02:11 2019 *************** *** 1,6 **** #!/bin/ksh # ! # $OpenBSD: sysupgrade.sh,v 1.25 2019/09/28 17:30:07 ajacoutot Exp $ # # Copyright (c) 1997-2015 Todd Miller, Theo de Raadt, Ken Westerback # Copyright (c) 2015 Robert Peichaer <r...@openbsd.org> --- 1,6 ---- #!/bin/ksh # ! # $OpenBSD$ # # Copyright (c) 1997-2015 Todd Miller, Theo de Raadt, Ken Westerback # Copyright (c) 2015 Robert Peichaer <r...@openbsd.org> *************** *** 158,163 **** --- 158,172 ---- # INSTALL.*, bsd*, *.tgz SETS=$(sed -n -e 's/^SHA256 (\(.*\)) .*/\1/' \ -e '/^INSTALL\./p;/^bsd/p;/\.tgz$/p' SHA256) + + echo "===========" + echo "$SETS" + echo "-----------" + SETS="INSTALL.i386\nbsd\nbsd.rd\nbase66.tgz\nman66.tgz" + echo "-----------" + echo "$SETS" + echo "===========" + return #Comment out this line once you are satisfied with the set selection. OLD_FILES=$(ls) OLD_FILES=$(rmel SHA256 $OLD_FILES)
