Re: bsd.rd and (automated) upgrading

2011-05-11 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Thu, 5 May 2011 21:23:40 + Kevin Chadwick wrote: > On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 13:15:33 +0200 > Rogier Krieger wrote: > > > Yes, see e.g. Yaifo. The link came by earlier this week on the list. > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/yaifo/files/yaifo/4.8/yaifo-4.8.tgz/download > > > I noticed the "U

Re: bsd.rd and (automated) upgrading

2011-05-05 Thread Nick Holland
On 05/03/11 15:09, David Steiner wrote: > On Sun, 01 May 2011 11:07:25 -0400 > Nick Holland wrote: ... >> "sounds dangerous". Perhaps you would like to explain what magic bit >> of knowledge you have that the rest of us lack? > > it says so in the FAQ: http://openbsd.org/faq/upgrade49.html > >

Re: bsd.rd and (automated) upgrading

2011-05-05 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 13:15:33 +0200 Rogier Krieger wrote: > Yes, see e.g. Yaifo. The link came by earlier this week on the list. > http://sourceforge.net/projects/yaifo/files/yaifo/4.8/yaifo-4.8.tgz/download I noticed the "Update to 4.9" added to CHANGES and downloaded yaifo from cvs. Built yaif

Re: bsd.rd and (automated) upgrading

2011-05-03 Thread David Steiner
On Sun, 01 May 2011 11:07:25 -0400 Nick Holland wrote: > On 05/01/11 07:13, David Steiner wrote: > > On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:24:30 -0400 > > Nick Holland wrote: > > > >> > >> um... > >> bsd.rd assumes console. > >> > > > > which i don't have and am looking for a workaround. maybe bsd.rd > > sh

Re: bsd.rd and (automated) upgrading

2011-05-02 Thread Chris Bennett
I use remote IP KVM to do my upgrades. Occasionally, I can't get my keybord input to get boot bsd.rd fast enough, so I just replace bsd with bsd.rd and reboot. Voila! I get bsd.rd without a hitch. If that were to be a problem, I can just kick down to shell, mv bsd back and reboot. All works just

Re: bsd.rd and (automated) upgrading

2011-05-01 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2011-05-01, Amit Kulkarni wrote: > 1) pkg_delete all installed packages after taking backups of > configuration files + data why on earth would you do this?

Re: bsd.rd and (automated) upgrading

2011-05-01 Thread Amit Kulkarni
> OpenBSD uses a monolithic kernel -- all the parts to the kernel are in > the kernel file, which is loaded into RAM at boot. You may now safely > delete the kernel if you so desire once the system is booted, it isn't > used until the next boot. You may also REPLACE the kernel, it has NO > impact

Re: bsd.rd and (automated) upgrading

2011-05-01 Thread Nick Holland
On 05/01/11 12:30, Amit Kulkarni wrote: > Nick, > I have always assumed that you don't run X, i.e you kill X and then > you upgrade from a root console. I do run X on a lot of systems. I'm writing to you on a machine with two 24" 1920x1200 flat panels running a lot of xterms, Firefox, Chrome, xx

Re: bsd.rd and (automated) upgrading

2011-05-01 Thread Nick Holland
On 05/01/11 07:13, David Steiner wrote: > On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:24:30 -0400 > Nick Holland wrote: > >> >> um... >> bsd.rd assumes console. >> > > which i don't have and am looking for a workaround. maybe bsd.rd should > assume: accepts commands from a file/stdin to be automated? or even > bett

Re: bsd.rd and (automated) upgrading

2011-05-01 Thread David Steiner
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:24:30 -0400 Nick Holland wrote: > > um... > bsd.rd assumes console. > which i don't have and am looking for a workaround. maybe bsd.rd should assume: accepts commands from a file/stdin to be automated? or even better: similar to yaifo allow ssh connections to finish the u

Re: bsd.rd and (automated) upgrading

2011-05-01 Thread Henning Brauer
* Stuart Henderson [2011-04-30 22:55]: > With release around the corner it's a good time for a reminder: > > If you're doing this for the upgrade to 4.9 be very careful to do the > untarring exactly as suggested: backup /sbin/reboot first, and untar in > the order suggested with base49 last. Don'

Re: bsd.rd and (automated) upgrading

2011-04-30 Thread Ron McDowell
Stuart Henderson wrote: >> http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade49.html >> > > With release around the corner it's a good time for a reminder: > > If you're doing this for the upgrade to 4.9 be very careful to do the > untarring exactly as suggested: backup /sbin/reboot first, and untar in > the

Re: bsd.rd and (automated) upgrading

2011-04-30 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2011-04-30, Nick Holland wrote: > On 04/30/11 05:53, David Steiner wrote: >> can the upgrade process via bsd.rd be automated? i'm thinking of >> upgrading remote machines, which are only available via ssh . >> >> like this: fetch the latest bsd.rd from ftp. replace /bsd.rd. >> echo 'boot bsd.r

Re: bsd.rd and (automated) upgrading

2011-04-30 Thread Steve Shockley
On 4/30/2011 11:24 AM, Nick Holland wrote: um... bsd.rd assumes console. Related to that, the old HP/Compaq Remote Insight Board products work well in non-Compaq hardware, and give remote access to KVM (web/Java interface) and serial (Java or ssh). http://webdevsys.com/lightsOut.htm has a p

Re: bsd.rd and (automated) upgrading

2011-04-30 Thread Nick Holland
On 04/30/11 05:53, David Steiner wrote: > can the upgrade process via bsd.rd be automated? i'm thinking of > upgrading remote machines, which are only available via ssh . > > like this: fetch the latest bsd.rd from ftp. replace /bsd.rd. > echo 'boot bsd.rd' >> /etc/boot.conf > reboot > > from her

Re: bsd.rd and (automated) upgrading

2011-04-30 Thread Rogier Krieger
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 11:54, David Steiner wrote: > can the upgrade process via bsd.rd be automated? Yes, see e.g. Yaifo. The link came by earlier this week on the list. http://sourceforge.net/projects/yaifo/files/yaifo/4.8/yaifo-4.8.tgz/download Regards, Rogier

bsd.rd and (automated) upgrading

2011-04-30 Thread David Steiner
can the upgrade process via bsd.rd be automated? i'm thinking of upgrading remote machines, which are only available via ssh . like this: fetch the latest bsd.rd from ftp. replace /bsd.rd. echo 'boot bsd.rd' >> /etc/boot.conf reboot from here on, i'd like to automate the upgrade process, by provi