[geeks] Sun Ultra 1 Operating System

[Jeremy Grosser]

> I'm still stuck on v3.9 of OpenBSD as I found out the cdrom
> drive died a few weeks back when I went to install 4.0 after my CD's
> turned up :(

I recently needed to update a few OpenBSD boxes to 4.0 from some  
fairly old versions (3.5, 3.6) and found that booting the ramdisks  
works extremely well. Just download the bsd.rd image for the version  
you want to update to, put it somewhere on your boot partition and  
reboot. At the second stage bootloader (the "boot> " prompt) type  
"boot hda1:/bsd40.rd" or something along those lines. When the system  
boots, select the upgrade option and just follow along.

Keep in mind that you'll need to merge changes in /etc manually by  
following the instructions here: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/ 
upgrade40.html

I was able to upgrade a system from 3.5 to 4.0 incrementally with  
very few problems. Any smaller issues you might run into (network  
drivers changing) should be noted in the FAQ.
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Jeremy Grosser
synack at csh.rit.edu
www.neohippie.net