On Sat, Jun 04, 2016 at 09:05:09PM +0300, li...@wrant.com wrote: > Sat, 4 Jun 2016 12:37:14 -0500 Chris Bennett > <chrisbenn...@bennettconstruction.us> > > I am following the same procedure for each snapshot I install. > > Download files to one USB hard drive, boot bsd.rd, install to other USB > > flash drive and reboot. > > > > But I have a problem, the install are on another drive that's not even > > mounted. So I have to mount, cd to directory and manually run sysmerge. > > Here is an idea: download to your home directory on the laptop the latest > snapshot and install on the main hard disk in the system. This also works > great for consecutive upgrades from newer snapshots by copying over bsd.rd > in the root of the disk and booting from it. Installing to a USB disk is, > very inconvenient for daily usage, it further limits you in the long run. > > Later, for all systems this can be further improved to auto-upgrade > from the local network. This is fully automatic, works flawless and > requires you to only manually review sysmerge and then upgrade pkgs. > > All my systems run only OpenBSD installed permanently on primary drives. > > > Thanks
Yes, I fully agree. Desktop hard drives are well suited to handling all of the bumping and banging of traveling between countries by bus or plane. And the slamming onto and off of security X-ray scanners is totally harmless. I will just throw away my 2TB usb HARD DRIVE. After all, OpenBSD doesn't support the USB3 in my brand new computer multi-architecture, multi-country system. It really sucks having to use a usb FLASH DRIVE to keep it's src, xenocara and ports up to date even when the snapshot is broken, not like I could mount it on another architecture and cvs up. That was fun. I can be an ass too. Get real, dude(ette)? I run older cobbled together hardware that helps keep both the new and old hardware working. Someone has to do it, or serious mistakes could slip by. Sorry to everyone for all this noise, he/she/they get my dander up sometimes. It's cathartic but rude of me. Chris
