Re: upgrading an old system

[Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

On 08/16/16 14:45, Brad Spencer wrote:
> Going from 2.0 or 3.0 it might be simpler to find another hard drive and
> install it in the system and just reload everything onto the new drive
> and swap it in.

I wouldn't be too worried about booting a netbsd-7 kernel on a v2 
system. But there is a pitfall: Newer systems will not let you log on to 
multi-user without a populated /etc/pam.d, which IIRC was fois^W^Wcame 
to us with netbsd-3.

Cheerio,
hauke

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