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If only openBSD had some sort of documentation for all this.
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I dont want to upgrade instead I want to do a fresh install when 6.2 reaches its EOL. Thanks a lot for replying. Last edited by bsd007; 6th October 2017 at 02:12 PM. |
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6.2 is going to be released soon, but it is not released yet.
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One year from the release date: https://www.openbsd.org/62.html
aka October 15, 2018 |
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You are not running 6.2. You are running -current, which was named "6.2" in order to prepare for 6.2-release. Your system is either older or newer than 6.2-release, depending on the date of your snapshot.
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As stated above, you are not running 6.2-release. At this moment, the most recent release is 6.1.When 6.2 is released, it will be supported until the day that the Project releases 6.4. There is no exact date. OpenBSD is released twice per year. Historically, this has been on-or-about May 1 and November 1. But these dates are subject to change. Quote:
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bsd007,
My buddy jggimi is an advanced user, a port maintainer. It makes sense for people like him and ibara to run -current. You and I have the luxury of benefiting from their expertise. They hack the -current branch and their work makes it into upcoming releases. I am a new user (I've been using OpenBSD since version 5.0). It may make more sense for you to install OpenBSD 6.2 when it is released on or about September 15, and apply security updates via syspatch as the updates become available. As jggimi suggested taking the time to read the ample documentation is a requirement for new OpenBSD users. These are suggestions only and not intended as a put down. I'm happy that you are a member here. I'm glad that you like OpenBSD. I like it as well.
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Okay I will download and install 6.2 when it is released but before I do that I have to figure out how to burn a CD in OpenBSD using K3B. I have installed K3B but when I launch it it says
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No optical drive found. K3b did not find any optical device in your system. Solution: Make sure HAL daemon is running, it is used by K3b for finding devices. |
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HAL is ancient, deprecated Linux technology (it is not included in Gnu/Linux distros for a few years). I suggest using pendrive. If you really want CD, burn it with growisofs (I had successfully burn 1 CD disc some time ago).
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$ sysctl kern.version kern.version=OpenBSD 6.2 (GENERIC.MP) #134: Tue Oct 3 21:22:29 MDT 2017 deraadt@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP |
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This is not a requirement. You do not need bootable media to reinstall or to upgrade if you have a running system. Just download the appropriate RAMDISK kernel (bsd.rd), place it in your root directory, and select it when booting. Then you can do a network install or a network upgrade, without a local copy of installation media. If needed, local filesets can be stored locally and then mounted by the install or upgrade script.
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This is a little off topic but may as well be addressed here for clarity.
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