On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:13:34AM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote:
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> 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.

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