On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 12:31:44PM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi, > > davy wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I?ve recently was asked to take over the maintenance of an old OpenBSD > >machine, which has not been updated in the last 7 years. > OpenBSD is stable, isn't it? :) > > > >Currently the machine has been running for close to 1000 days on 4.1. It has > >been a while since I worked with OpenBSD (shame on me), and I?m really not > >sure what the best way would be to upgrade this machine, knowning I don?t > >have a serial or local access to the box. > > > >Can I do a 4.1 -> 5.4 in one shot? > No. You should always do a one-by-one update. I got a tach in that > too. You can skip perhaps one release, but not soo many. I had > troubles with 5.2 -> 5.4 which I was able to fix, but I would have > spent less time by issuing upgrades... > > If you have enough disk-space, I'd just download all releases and > using the very fine upgrade tool... the advantage is that you can > keep the machine running at any moment and continue at a later > stage, quick! > > Otherwise, backup, format, reinstall...
>From 4.1, I'd recommend figuring out what's special, and reinstall to a snapshot. the time_t jump means you're going to have to reinstall base for 5.5 anyways, so save time.
