I had already done the 5-8->5.9, 5.9->6.0 route when I got the note reading saying how lucky I was ...
What actually provoked this upgrade was the acquisition of a new Soekris Net6501-50, to replace my old Net5501. My home internet connection had gotten faster than the old Net5501 100MB NICs could handle. But the net6501 would not boot with the old OpenBSD 5.8, after I just moved the harddrive over from the net5501. Once the upgrade to OpenBSD 6.0 was done on the net5501 and the harddrive moved over again, the net6501 booted fine. Then I just had to boot into single user and fix the fstab ( %s/wd/sd/ ) and /etc/hostname.* files ( vr -> em ) among other things. It is running fine now. Download speed went from about 70MB/s to 195MB/s with the new gigabit NICs. I will likely move to current later this week. Thanks to all. On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 12:43 AM, Nick Holland <n...@holland-consulting.net> wrote: > On 03/04/17 18:40, Rick Ballard wrote: > > I have an old soekris running 5.8 -current. When I try to boot from the > > latest snapshot bsd.rd, I cannot get a list of packages from any mirror I > > tried: > > Unable to get a verified list of distribution sets > ... > > OpenBSD 6.0-current (RAMDISK_CD) #200: Thu Mar 2 11:17:49 MST 2017 > ^^^^^^^^^^^ > > dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/RAMDISK_CD > ... > > HTTP Server? (hostname, list#, 'done' or '?') [openbsd.cs.toronto.edu] 6 > > HTTP Server? (hostname, list#, 'done' or '?') [openbsd.delfic.org] done > > Location of sets? (disk http or 'done') [http] > > HTTP proxy URL? (e.g. 'http://proxy:8080', or 'none') [none] > > HTTP Server? (hostname, list#, 'done' or '?') [openbsd.delfic.org] > > Server directory? [/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386] > > *Unable to get a verified list of distribution sets.* > > well. seems that you have got very lucky in the not-so-lucky sense of > the word. > > You managed to pull down a March 2 bsd.rd, which was for "6.0-current" > and then all the mirrors updated to "6.1-beta" before you managed to do > the update. > > So you got an install kernel looking for *60.tgz, and what was available > was *61.tgz. > > Just get yourself a new bsd.rd. And a lottery ticket. In fact, get the > lottery ticket first. > > Nick. > > -- Rick Ballard Dartmouth,Nova Scotia, Canada
