On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, carnivorous@gmail.com wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm not sure if this was asked already, but I'd like to upgrade from
> 2.0 -> 3.0 via ssh.  The machine in question is a few thousand miles
> away.  In the past, I just downloaded the .tgz files under binary/sets
> to / and then just extracted them (everything except etc.tgz).  This
> worked so far, but there were some significant changes in 3.0 so it
> will most likely break my current install if I do it this way.
>
> Is there some sort of script that needs to be run that I'm missing?
> Like an upgrade script that will let me specify where the install
> packages are and the script does the rest?
>
> Any help is much appreciated.  Feel free to e-mail me directly, so
> this thread doesn't clutter the list.

 	I've done something very similar with remote machines.
 	- Extract new kernel, mv /netbsd /onetbsd, ln <new_kernel> /netbsd
 	- reboot
 	- extract exerything except etc.tgz
 	- usr/sbin/postinstall -s .../etc.tgz
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