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Booting install.iso from grub.
I was considering reducing my waste by installing grub and creating a partition just for syncing with -current.
I was wondering if anyone has tried it this way: [grub] [install.iso partition] [OpenBSD] This way I can boot the iso - update the box and boot into OpenBSD w/o having to burn a cd. Plus this is an older laptop and syncing from cvs tree is not ideal. Thoughts? |
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Hi @tls !
Is it necessary ? Why wouldn't you upgrade via ftp simply ? |
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This seems a much saner route - thank you.
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sysmerge(8) does all work locally. It saves changes to common configuration files (usually those residing in /etc...) in a temporary directory, & points out differences to those configuration files already in use. sysmerge also will merge the differences at your direction. The problem sysmerge addresses is that new configuration files may leave the system in an unknown state, so instead of the upgrade process leaving you with a non-working system, the Perl script points out what differences exist, & allows you to make the configuration changes whenever you choose. So if you installed a snapshot three weeks ago, & tomorrow decide to deal with the differences in configuration files, everything that is needed already resides on your filesystem. Nothing more is going to be downloaded. |
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But as you said I am free to make the adjustment when I deem fit, thank you. |
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