On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 06:16:49PM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've managed to get myself into the ugly position of needing to do a
> remote source upgrade from 3.9 to 4.0. Reason: Using RAIDFRAME on an
> architecture I don't have handy over here...
>
> Do I have to take care about more issues than are covered in FAQ4+5?
>
> Or even better, can I somehow mount partitions within a RAID type
> partition from a GENERIC kernel (sans having RAID protection in that
> case, with a rebuild after that)?
If it were me, I would:
1. build a 4.0 RAIDFrame system locally, in a qemu or vmware virtual
machine if necessary, on spare hardware if not.
2. make a release of that system.
3. Backup the remote system, and have a facility for recovery.
4. Transfer the bsd, bsd.rd, and *.tgz filesets to the remote system.
5. Follow the "Upgrading without install media" instructions in
http://openbsd.rt.fm/faq/upgrade40.html -- I prefer the mergemaster
package to help automate /etc maintenance, the FAQ discusses manual
/etc maintenance.
