On 2007/03/22 00:07, Maurice Janssen wrote: > Is it OK to untar the .tgz files on a running system (after rebooting > with the new kernel of course) or is it recommended to boot in single > user mode?
See 'upgrading without install media' in the closest Upgrade Guide (http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade40.html, etc). Especially note the flags to tar.