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by brynet 2618 days ago
You're reading the manual upgrade guide, for remote systems where you would otherwise cannot boot the ramdisk kernel to upgrade, which handles all of that for you.

If you have console access to the machine, serial or glass. Things are far easier.

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More evidence the hard way instructions should simply be deleted.
Don't let one guy ruin it for the rest of us!

Thanks for your work on OpenBSD Ted.

I would move them to a separate page and not delete them. Sometimes you need to know something about dealing with the ugly. Nice work and your blog is great.