Subject: Re: Upgrading NetBSD?
To: maximum entropy <entropy@tappedin.com>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/26/2001 20:27:19
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, maximum entropy wrote:
> > tar -xvzpf $i -C /
[...]
> And you really don't need to say "--unlink", since that has been the
> default for several years.
Speaking of "defaults for years", sysinstall supports upgrades now. In
addition to all of the above, it will move your old "/etc" to
"/etc.old", install the new "/etc", and delete any obsolete files
(binaries that have changed location &c). It's fairly painless if you
can get the sets over ftp, or nfs, or if you can put them on a
seperate partition.
Frederick