When upgrading through an untar from /, the only problem you may have to deal
with is the fact that it won't overwrite open files while its running.  Some
files (like init) are impossible to overwrite from inside NetBSD.

The optimal thing to do is to boot from a miniroot and mount your partitions
up and do the install.  Maybe we should make a miniroot part of the
distribution?

Gene

Thus spake Brad Salai:
> 
> >> A snapshot of NetBSD-1.2Alpha/mac68k is now available in the
> >(which means they'll appear on the mirrors, as well).
> >
> >        ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/mac68k/
> >
> >Thanks for hard work!  Many of us appreciate it...
> >
> 
> We really do, the collective amount of time that having these snapshots
> saves is enormous.
> 
> A question, I've always installed the snapshots from a Mac partition using
> the installer. I now have enough room on my netbsd partition for the
> tarballs, and wonder if there is anything that I have to watch out for if I
> tar zxvf them from /  ??
> 
> I'll do it as root, but should I also start up in single user mode?
> 
> Brad
> 
> 
> 


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