That makes sense, is there an faq on mounting from a miniroot??

Brad


>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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>
>--
>Gene Skonicki - sparta@imsa.edu - Of course I'm sane, the voices tell me so.