Hey,
This is related to Creating USB Flashdrive installer. I posted previously. I have another OpenBSD machine in my office, not that the company requires it but as it's my machine, I installed whatever I want. The machine is still on 5.2, so this is a good chance to test my shiny USB Flashdrive installer.
If your machine is just like mine, which support USB Booting, I just boot from USB Flashdrive. Bolded is my input.
Welcome to the OpenBSD/amd64 5.3 installation program.
(I)nstall, (U)pgrade or (S)hell? u
Available disks are: sd0 sd1.
Which disk is the root disk? ('?' for details) [sd0] ?
sd0: ST9160823AS (149.1G)
sd1: DataTraveler 2.0 (1.9G)
As you can see it asked for the root disk. Which is the disk I want to upgrade. I choose ? to check which device is for my primary disk and which is for the USB Flashdrive. As you can see, sd1 is my Kingston DataTraveler USB Flashdrive. So then I just press ENTER for the default choice [sd0] for the root disk.
Let's upgrade the sets!
Location of sets? (cd disk ftp http or 'done') [cd] disk
Remember the sets are in the USB Flashdrive so I need to set the location correctly. So I choose disk.
Is the disk partition already mounted? [no] ENTER
Available disks are: sd0 sd1.
Which one contains the upgrade media? (or 'done') [sd1] ENTER
a: 1228768 64 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1
i: 2658867 1228863 MSDOS
Available sd1 partitions are: a i.
Which one has the upgrade sets? (or 'done') [a] Enter
Pathname to the sets? (or 'done') [5.3/amd64] 5.3
The sd1 is not mounted, so I need to answer accordingly. I then choose sd1 and then the a partition (remember sd1a is for OpenBSD, sd1i is for MSDOS). My 5.3 sets is in sd1a/5.3/ so I just input the directory name 5.3.
Select sets by entering a set name, a file name pattern or 'all'. De-select sets by prepending a '-' to the set name, file name pattern or 'all'. Selected sets are labelled '[X]'.
Now I can see the list of sets I have in the 5.3 directory. Continue to upgrade as usual. After it's upgraded, I rebooted the machine to change the timezone, then mount the USB Flashdrive again to do sysmerge. The usual stuff.
Installation via USB Flashdrive is FAST! Later.
This is related to Creating USB Flashdrive installer. I posted previously. I have another OpenBSD machine in my office, not that the company requires it but as it's my machine, I installed whatever I want. The machine is still on 5.2, so this is a good chance to test my shiny USB Flashdrive installer.
If your machine is just like mine, which support USB Booting, I just boot from USB Flashdrive. Bolded is my input.
Welcome to the OpenBSD/amd64 5.3 installation program.
(I)nstall, (U)pgrade or (S)hell? u
Available disks are: sd0 sd1.
Which disk is the root disk? ('?' for details) [sd0] ?
sd0: ST9160823AS (149.1G)
sd1: DataTraveler 2.0 (1.9G)
As you can see it asked for the root disk. Which is the disk I want to upgrade. I choose ? to check which device is for my primary disk and which is for the USB Flashdrive. As you can see, sd1 is my Kingston DataTraveler USB Flashdrive. So then I just press ENTER for the default choice [sd0] for the root disk.
Let's upgrade the sets!
Location of sets? (cd disk ftp http or 'done') [cd] disk
Remember the sets are in the USB Flashdrive so I need to set the location correctly. So I choose disk.
Is the disk partition already mounted? [no] ENTER
Available disks are: sd0 sd1.
Which one contains the upgrade media? (or 'done') [sd1] ENTER
a: 1228768 64 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1
i: 2658867 1228863 MSDOS
Available sd1 partitions are: a i.
Which one has the upgrade sets? (or 'done') [a] Enter
Pathname to the sets? (or 'done') [5.3/amd64] 5.3
The sd1 is not mounted, so I need to answer accordingly. I then choose sd1 and then the a partition (remember sd1a is for OpenBSD, sd1i is for MSDOS). My 5.3 sets is in sd1a/5.3/ so I just input the directory name 5.3.
Select sets by entering a set name, a file name pattern or 'all'. De-select sets by prepending a '-' to the set name, file name pattern or 'all'. Selected sets are labelled '[X]'.
Now I can see the list of sets I have in the 5.3 directory. Continue to upgrade as usual. After it's upgraded, I rebooted the machine to change the timezone, then mount the USB Flashdrive again to do sysmerge. The usual stuff.
Installation via USB Flashdrive is FAST! Later.
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