On Oct 27 12:14:08, st...@williamsitconsulting.com wrote:
> I have an older system on physical hardware that needs upgrading. I've been
> procrastinating because it's the type of thing that needs to be done from
> start to finish, and it's rather out of date (OpenBSD 5.2-current) so I know
> there will be all sorts of surprises.
Wouldn't it be easier for you to just install current
(or 5.6 if your CDs arrived yet), and move any specific
things over from your old system?
> I have Virtualbox (2.2.4) running on my Windows PC
> and able to boot/install OpenBSD in it.
You say you currently run on older hardware.
You can get decent hardware for peanuts.
Just install on a real machine, don't bring
any more unnecessary complexities into it.
> I had (what I think is) a great thought today that maybe I could (somehow)
> restore a backup from my physical hardware into the Virtualbox VM and do a
> "test" upgrade there, figuring things out bit by bit with no pressure of my
> system being down. Once I had the upgrade process figured out, I'd then be
> better prepared to do it to my physical system.
Do this on another physical system.
> I have never done a dump/restore of a complete system before.
First figure out what it is exactly that you need to restore.
User accounts and their data, obviously, but what else?
> I'm reasonably comfortable with dump/restore,
> but not to completely "clone" a system.
Why do you need to "clone" the old system?
In a situation like this, I would just install current
and restore the old data onto it, manually.
Jan
