On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 12:45 PM, Theo de Raadt <dera...@openbsd.org> wrote:
> > > Upgrade with a snapshot. > > > > > > You don't stand a chance figuring out what we changed and making your > way > > > through it. > > > > Do you mean that I can simply boot with a fresh bsd.rd and upgrade my > system? > > > > Thank you both for your answers. > > Yes. Follow the advice someone else provided, to upgrade step by step over > sequential releases. > > I had a test machine that was on 5.5 that I just did this exact process on; it worked exactly as advertised. Updating the ports took some time since the machine had a truckload of stuff running on it and was so far out of patch, but for me it was worth it vs installing clean and restoring data from backup.
