At 10:22 AM -0500 9/16/02, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
>On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Nicolas Saurbier wrote:
>
>>  Oh, now something comes to my mind....
>>  When I boot the NetBSD floppys, there´s a point called "Update 
>>NetBSD..." or similar.
>>  So, when I boot the 1.6 Floppys and do an update, is that all???
>
>Nearly. :-)
>
>The "Upgrade NetBSD" option moves your old "/etc" to "/etc.old", and
>makes a new one. What I prefer to do, is discard the new "/etc", move
>the old right back, then run "etcupdate". It does all this even if
>you choose not to install the "etc.tgz" set, by the way.
>
>Also, your root's "crontab" and ".cshrc" and ".login" files are
>overwritten -- again, even if you choose not to install "etc.tgz".
>[It's a known bug.] Having been through this a few times, I make
>copies of those and put them right back, too.

OK, the paranoid in me wonders if there is anything else that needs 
to be backed up. Maybe the stuff in /var? Is there anything in /var 
that the updated might wipe out?