On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:00:54 -0400, Juan Miscaro wrote: > The online upgrade documentation [1] is fairly vehement about its > recommendation regarding the use of the install kernel when upgrading. > I was wondering why? What dangers await someone going down the remote > upgrade path? > > /juan > > [1] http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade42.html#upgrade
Depending on your setup and hardware, a remote upgrade is pretty decently easy. Here I have the privilege of serial console, and then the remote upgrade is identical to the local one; except of rebooting to bsd.rd instead of the CDROM. Uwe