> On Oct 24, 2026, at 3:30 PM, Thomas Kupper <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On 24.10.2026 21:23, Brian Brombacher wrote:
>>>> On Oct 24, 2026, at 2:17 PM, Thomas Kupper <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> [email protected] wrote on 24.10.2026 06:41:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> I have an encrypted installation of OpenBSD 7.9 i386 on a hard drive. This
>>>> is on a computer with no internet connection, completely offline. Is there
>>>> a way to upgrade to 8.0 using a USB drive? If so, how?
>>>
>>> You can rsync an OpenBSD mirror's i386 files to an USB stick and point
>>> sysupgrade to it. And point installurl(5) to the USB stick. Needs quite a
>>> lot of space but same method can be used for later updates.
>>>
>> The file “install80.img” was created for this purpose.
>> https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html
>>>> On Oct 24, 2026, at 2:17 PM, Thomas Kupper <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> [email protected] wrote on 24.10.2026 06:41:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> I have an encrypted installation of OpenBSD 7.9 i386 on a hard drive. This
>>>> is on a computer with no internet connection, completely offline. Is there
>>>> a way to upgrade to 8.0 using a USB drive? If so, how?
>>>
>>> You can rsync an OpenBSD mirror's i386 files to an USB stick and point
>>> sysupgrade to it. And point installurl(5) to the USB stick. Needs quite a
>>> lot of space but same method can be used for later updates.
>>>
>> The file “install80.img” was created for this purpose.
>> https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html <https://www.openbsd.org/faq/
>> faq4.html>
>
> But you still need to update all installed apps and for that a local repo
> somewhere will be necessary.
>
Yes, you are correct, packages are a problem. The i386 packages directory for
8.0 is 56 GB. They’d be better off downloading just what they need, if at all
possible.
