I am upgrading hundreds of boxes a day with only have serial access to them. Installing from an external source would bring any server I use to its knees (I end up using 4-5 Gbps of bandwidth during upgrades.
I assume packages will still be able to grabbed over ftp, although I suspect I should be planning for that to go away too at some point. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: upgrades no longer allow ftp for sets From: "Shawn K. Quinn" <skqu...@rushpost.com> Date: Tue, March 25, 2014 6:38 pm To: misc@openbsd.org On Tue, Mar 25, 2014, at 08:10 PM, n...@leviacomm.net wrote: > Thanks and I understand the reasoning. The current ftp server won't be > able to do http and use of siteXX files prevents using an external > source. Will nfs be supported or am I going to need more hardware? What is preventing you from using, say, a USB thumb drive as the install media? Also note you can install from multiple sources (http for everything else, then a local disk for the siteXX files). -- Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com
