Being the thoughts and writings of one Gustaf Erikson; father, homeowner, technologist.

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Saturday, 2005-01-15

Biting another bullet

I upgraded the Ultra 5 to OpenBSD 3.6. Some notes for next time:

  • The machine doesn’t boot from the floppy, use the cd-rom image instead.

  • Don’t just delete the entries in /var/db/pkg, cleanly remove old packages with pkg_delete -q /var/db/pkg/\* instead. Or in other words, RTFM.

Now I just need to get tramp working so that I can edit these posts in greater comfort and security.

Update: I discovered I need the latest X stuff too, for ghostscript. I can’t remember if the installation tgz sets should be handled specially, I just did a tar xzf xbase36.tgz -C / and hoped for the best.

Updated on Thursday, 2024-12-02. Posted at 23:45, in the comp category. Comments [0]

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