Re: NEWBIE: Best way to upgrade?

From: Dave Uhring (daveuhring_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/17/05 

Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 05:03:04 -0500

On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 08:44:30 +0100, Steve P wrote:

> I am wanting to upgrade to 3.7 and have a couple of questions:
>
> 1) If I download the src to current and buildworld will this be the
> latest 3.6 or 3.7?

No, that would be -current.

> 2) If it possible to (on a live system) shrink the swap partition by a
> few meg and dd the cd image to it and boot from a set disk partition?

Not necessary. You can do a live upgrade.

http://openbsd.org/faq/upgrade37.html

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