Subject: Re: 1.6.1 -> 2.0 by extracting binary sets
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Valeriy E. Ushakov <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/22/2005 11:44:18
rgf <r8@socal.rr.com> wrote:

> I was thinking of upgrading to 2.0 manually like we used to do in
> NetBSD-mac68k, by copying over the kernel, rebooting, then
> extracting all of the sets manually with tar or pax.

When going 1.6->2.0 it'd be wise to pre-extract /libexec, /lib, and
/rescue.  Those are not in 1.6, so they won't interfere with the
running 1.6 system.  And they might help if anything "goes wrong"(tm),
epsecially /rescue.

SY, Uwe
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