Use the -n option to sysupgrade to not reboot after files are downloaded and verified. Then delete the unwanted tarballs as mentioned from /home/_sysupgrade/ and reboot.
See sysupgrade(8): https://man.openbsd.org/sysupgrade > On Aug 1, 2019, at 7:31 AM, Antal Ispanovity <[email protected]> wrote: > > 2019-08-01 8:08 GMT+02:00, Harald Dunkel <[email protected]>: >> Hi folks, >> >>> On 7/30/19 3:08 PM, Hrvoje Popovski wrote: >>> >>> try to update both boxes to latest snapshot at least because in snapshot >>> you have excellent tool called sysupgrade ... you will love it :) >>> >>> with this tool you can upgrade os to latest snapshot without any problem >>> over ssh :) >>> >> This is cool. >> >> Due to space and speed restrictions (compact flash card) and to reduce >> downtime I would like to avoid the games and the Xwindow "balast" on my >> gateways. Does sysupgrade recognize the tar balls that are already >> installed, or does it become a "sysinstall" in this case? > Iif I remember correctly it doesn't. Someone solved this by removing > the unnecessary tarballs from the _sysupgrade folder and performed the > upgrade after it. >> >> Sorry for asking, but the man page https://man.openbsd.org/sysupgrade >> doesn't tell. >> >> >> Thanx in advance >> Harri >> >> >
