On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:13:34AM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: > 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.
And then there's yaifo (in ports), which gives you bsd.rd+sshd. You must get the config correct so it knows the interfaces, but it will be a good choice for some people. Especially if you'd like to repartition, etc., remotely. -- Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation
