On 17 Mar 2018, at 4:59, Rodney Polkinghorne wrote:
Hi
This is my first post here, I appreciate how much work you all do,
please
be gentle. :-)
Could someone please tell me how to install the latest snapshot, or
point
me at some instructions that work? I tried the following:
1. Download bsd.rd and SHA256.sig from
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/
2. Fail to verify the 6.3 signatures, because I'm running 6.1. (It
would
be nice if the signify man page had instructions to download and
verify
openbsd-<future version>-base.pub.)
3. Reboot, with boot> boot sd0a:/root/bsd.rd
4. Choose to install to sd1 (a USB key), default options, location of
sets
is http, HTTP server is mirror.aarnet.edu.au.
5. The default server directory is pub/OpenBSD/6.3/i386, override that
with
snapshots instead of 6.3
6. Leave all sets selected, and say done
At this point, the installer reported that SHA256.sig had downloaded
and
verified, and that bsd downloaded but failed its checksum test.
Possibly the answer is to ignore the checksums, but I want to ask
first.
Rodney Polkinghorne
AFAIK You can only upgrade from one major release to another. Check
upgrade guide https://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade62.html
At the moment snapshots are already 6.3-beta, which will be the release
following 6.2 according to upgrade guide, and the snapshots are/will be
prepared for upcoming 6.3 (installurl and path, path to packages etc.).
I guess its better the whole system will be correctly updated to
6.2-release first. Then switch from a freshly updated
6.2-release->6.2-current (eq 6.3-beta).
