On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 09:48:20PM +0200, Maciej Jan Broniarz wrote:
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> 2009/7/21 Bret S. Lambert <bret.lambert@gmail.com>:
> > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 09:36:01PM +0200, Maciej Jan Broniarz wrote:
> >> 2009/7/21 Emilio Perea <eperea@walkereng.com>:
> >> > 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.
> >> >
> >> > You can upgrade to -current snapshots using the normal methods or if you
> >> > prefer running -stable you can build a release in another computer and
> >> > install from that. ?A standard binary upgrade followed by sysmerge is
> >> > relatively quick and easy.
> >>
> >> Is there a way to do it without rebooting the machine into single mode?
> >
> > You can try untarring snapshots manually, but that's far outside the
> > realm of being supported.
> >
> > If you're upgrading the kernel, you're going to have to reboot. I'm not
> > sure what you're trying to avoid single user mode for.
> >
> 
> 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.

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> mjb
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