Cheap easy fast way is to move /etc/hosts somewhere else prior to

upgrade.  Not sure if things like sysmerge will help
On 11/4/08, Chris  wrote:

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> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Kenneth R Westerback

>  wrote:

>> On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 02:37:40PM -0800, Chris wrote:

>>> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 4:51 AM, Alexander Hall

>>> wrote:

>>> > I doubt he's trying to install stuff to the ramdisk...

>>>

>>> Thanks all for your help.

>>>

>>> My current OpenBSD 4.3 installation is sitting on / (/var, /home,

>>> /root and everything else is under /) - only one partition. And I have

>>> about 34.7g free in there. So my / is not small and has gigs of space

>>> free available. Also, my /etc/hosts file is 666K.

>>>

>>> Thanks for any further help.

>>>

>>

>> The upgrade.sh script will copy the hosts file onto the ramdisk. A

>> 666K hosts file is enough to be problematic I suspect.

>

> Yes, you are right. It was the /etc/hosts file. The installation went

> smoothly after removing lots of entries from there.

>

> Most of the entries of my /etc/hosts file actually come from

> http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm - it basically blackholes

> unwanted sites. Is there any way I can get around the upgrade issue

> without having to remove entries from my /etc/hosts file? Thanks.

>

>

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