> On Aug 26, 2017, at 4:14 AM, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > > On 2017-08-26, Bryan Linton <b...@shoshoni.info> wrote: >> On 2017-08-25 13:09:14, Jordon <open...@sirjorj.com> wrote: >>> I’ve been running snapshots on my machine for a while now. About once or >>> twice a week I will interrupt the boot with ‘bsd.rd’ and run through the >>> ‘U’ process to get the latest builds. The only weirdness is that it alway >>> defaults to a really slow mirror (i have to manually enter a different one) >>> and it simply doesnt work when I enter a number from the list. Is this a >>> proper way to update? > > For upgrades, it will default to the mirror in /etc/installurl. > >>> What about when the version gets bumped? Since the switch to 6.2, this >>> method doesn’t work because it doesnt give the list of packages - just the >>> kernel ones. Is this expected behavior and the solution is to boot from a >>> flash drive or PXE from the latest 6.2 media? >>> >> >> The older bsd.rd is probably only looking for files tagged with >> its own version. I.e. If you have 6.1 installed, it's looking >> for base61.tgz and not base60.tgz or base62.tgz. > > Right - you should always use a new bsd.rd to do the upgrade. >
Ahh… so my process of booting the current bsd.rd to install the next one is not recommended. Good to know. Thanks Jordon
