Am Mon den 04 Aug 2003 um 10:21:35AM +0100 schrieb Frank Mattes:

> I'm wondering if its possible to  just download the binary for 1.6.1 
> and unzip/tar it in the / directory.
> 
Yes, this does work indeed. However, i did a netboot for this and mounted
the disks in /mnt before the update. Maybe that is a bit too much safety,
but i felt better this way.
tar zxvf --unlink $DISTFILE should do, too (after stopping all services).

Bye,

	andre