2009/7/21 Bret S. Lambert <[email protected]>: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 09:48:20PM +0200, Maciej Jan Broniarz wrote: >> 2009/7/21 Bret S. Lambert <[email protected]>: >> > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 09:36:01PM +0200, Maciej Jan Broniarz wrote: >> >> 2009/7/21 Emilio Perea <[email protected]>: >> >> > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 07:28:52PM +0200, Maciej Jan Broniarz wrote: >> >> >> I have installed openbsd on a 2 gb cf card. Is there a way to update >> >> >> my system and install all patches for my release using binaries? I >> >> >> have no free space to recompile the system from sources, still i would >> >> >> like to do an update if necessary. >> >> > >> For e.g. when I just need to patch few programs I don't want to reboot >> the whole machine. I want to minimize any downtine as much as >> possible. > > Then you can burn a release on another machine as outlined in the release > man page. > > If you don't have another machine of the same arch, you can NFS mount > the source and obj dirs and build from there. > > It'll take a week and a day, though, to do that if you're on a slow machine, > which I'm guessing you are, since it runs off of CF. > >>
The machine has dual-core xeon cpu and 2 gb of ram so it is quite fast. It is a small router box, so I have choose CF over regular hdd. What I am looking for is a way to update the system as easily as with freebsd-update of apt-get. Unpacking archives to my / looks fine, but I was wondering if there is an easier method. mjb -- [ -----< Maciej Jan Broniarz || [email protected] >------ ] | Siamo qui \ sotto la stessa luce \ sotto la sua croce \ | | cantando ad una voce \ E l'Emmanuel Emmanuel, Emmanuel, | [ ---------------< E l'Emmanuel, Emmanuel >-------------- ]
