Jonathan Thornburg <jthorn4...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently reinstalled my main laptop (which was at 6.5-stable/amd64)
> with 6.6/amd64. Almost everything "just worked", and the things that
> didn't were 3rd-party stuff not from OpenBSD. A big thank-you to everyone!
>
> And... a specific itch-you-scratched-very-nicely I'd like to praise:
>
> For the past few years I've usually (re)installed OpenBSD by burning a
> boot DVD and then booting that. But this time I found myself with the
> combination of a broken built-in cd/dvd drive, and a computer which didn't
> seem to want to boot from USB even after fiddling with bios settings.
> Being able to copy the new (6.6) bsd.rd to an existing filesystem on the
> (running) old OpenBSD system, then boot that bsd.rd to install, was
> really really nice. Thank you!
well you missed out
for 6.5 onwards, all you had to was type
sysmerge
sysupgrade
for 6.6 onwards you'll only need sysupgrade
