On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:00:54 -0400, Juan Miscaro wrote:
> The online upgrade documentation [1] is fairly vehement about its

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> 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