According to the openbsd upgrafe-minifaq you have to do a handful of things in order to upgrade your system, but i feel it is leaving a handful of things out. for example:
Do you have to perform the steps in the order they are written? (oldest on the bottom to newest on the top)
Do you perform these steps before booting from floppy and choosing the upgrade option? (or after updating via tarball)
Can you upgrade a system that does not have a compiler on it? (since many people remove the compiler from their firewall for security purposes)
is there an upgrade minifaq addendum somewhere? It would be so easy for me to just wipe my system and install from scratch, but i want to do it the 'right way'. for example, if i had a lot of users on this system that would be a good reason to upgrade and not do a clean install (and have to re-create their accounts). If i wanted to, could I copy the /etc/password file and /hom directory over to the new system and assume that the users will be able to access the new system?
Do you have to perform the steps in the order they are written? (oldest on the bottom to newest on the top)
Do you perform these steps before booting from floppy and choosing the upgrade option? (or after updating via tarball)
Can you upgrade a system that does not have a compiler on it? (since many people remove the compiler from their firewall for security purposes)
is there an upgrade minifaq addendum somewhere? It would be so easy for me to just wipe my system and install from scratch, but i want to do it the 'right way'. for example, if i had a lot of users on this system that would be a good reason to upgrade and not do a clean install (and have to re-create their accounts). If i wanted to, could I copy the /etc/password file and /hom directory over to the new system and assume that the users will be able to access the new system?
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