Hi,

I followed the unsupported procedure below to upgrade a sacrificial 2.6
system to 2.8. During the extraction process I started getting the following
error:-

Bad system call (core dumped)

It looks as if a required system file/lib/util was overwritten - what is the
safest order in which to do the extraction? I need base28, comp28, misc28
and man28.

Thanks

Abdul

PS. out of interest - is there any way to recover from the above situation.

Thanks.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-miscopenbsd.org [mailto:owner-miscopenbsd.org]On Behalf Of
> Chris Cappuccio
>
>
> I haven't had any problems upgrading my 2.6 systems to the latest
> snapshots,
> remotely even...
>
> copy all of the *28.tgz files to /tmp, including X if you want it
>
> cd /tmp
> tar xzf etc28.tgz
> rm etc28.tgz
>
> This is so you don't clobber /etc
>
> cd /
> sh
> for i in `ls /tmp/*gz`; do
> tar xzpf $i
> done
>
> Ta-da...Your system is mostly upgraded...
>
> Now move /bsd to /obsd
>
> Move the bsd kernel to /bsd
>
> cd /tmp/etc
>
> Take note of /etc/rc.conf
>
> cp netstart rc.conf security rc rc.securelevel login.conf
> services ssh*config /etc
>
> Edit /etc/rc.conf to reflect similar settings to your old rc.conf
>
> If you have anything in /etc/aliases, move it to /etc/hostname.XX
> on lines after the first one, with stuff line inet alias x.y.1.2
> 255.255.x.x
>
> Edit /etc/master.passwd with vipw, and in between 0:0::0:0 on
> root's password
> line, make it 0:0:daemon:0:0....For yourself and other
> administrators, your
> lines should be 0:0:staff:0:0....This gives you unlimited process
> limits...Everyone else is subject to other limits in /etc/login.conf
>
> reboot
>
> See 2.8 fly
>
> Upgrading is not 'supported' but is damn easy to do this way
>
>
>
>

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