Hmm, you do have an excellent point there. Those disks, it's a miracle they 're still working. I'll think the re-start from bare metal is the best way forward.
Thank you for your honest answers! At least I didn't get frustrated because of upgrade hell! :) 2014-02-06 Nick Holland <n...@holland-consulting.net>: > On 02/06/14 05:49, 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. > > > > 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? > > > > thx! Davy > > > > You have a seven+ year old machine, with comparibly old disks. > > My suggestion: > Build out a new machine using -current (yes, not 5.4. you have a big > bump coming with 5.4 to 5.5, but if you install -current now, you are > over the bump...then start back on releases/stable with 5.5). Configure > the new machine exactly as you want it. Now, put it in service, decom > the old machine...or minimum, swap the disks out of the old machine with > these newly configured disks. > > This way, you never lose your functioning system...and you can freshen > your hardware, too. > > Nick.
