It looks mighty tempting, and I'm about to try it on my 7500, but I
want to check a few things first.

My plan as it stands is this:

1) Boot from the current boot.fs.

2) Select Upgrade (as opposed to Install or Shell).

3) Install all the packages from the sets (which I have on the local
hard drive already) EXCEPT kern.tgz and etc.tgz.

4) Reboot and have the machine behave.

Some questions...

0) Would I be better advised to do a dump of my entire drive to the
(copious) free space on the Sun clients in cs.swarthmore.edu?

(I can get away with it - there's space and I administrate them
anyway.)

1) Is there an OF upgrade from Apple that will work with the 7500?

(I think I have OF 1.x.5 where x might be 0, but I'm working from
memory.)

3) I'm currently running kernel version 1.4P, which I compiled from
the sources and installed without upgrading kmem and gcc as I should
have, which I later did by hand. In fact, I'm going the snapshot route
so that I can stop having one foot in 1.4.1 and one in -current. I
have a moderate amount of custom stuff in my kernel setup (including a
BUFPAGES setting for my 192 MBs of RAM and some pinnings of drives to
sd? numbers).

Can I continue using this kernel with the 20000205 snapshot?

Should I build a new kernel with my configuration before doing the
installation and move it to /netbsd while on the boot floppy?

Or do I *really* have to install kern.tgz because it includes more
than just a kernel?

I'm well aware that the binary distribution won't write over things
like /usr/local, /home, and /chroot (which contains BIND, postfix, and
a couple of other daemons I don't really trust), but can someone else
say so so that I feel better?

4) Anything I'm missing towards this goal?

Thanks for any help you can give...

       ~ g r @ eclipsed.net

PS, I was very impressed with 1.4.2_ALPHA, which I just put on a
Performa 6500 which I'm using in a distributed computing project.
The install was very clean, and wscons looks great (if scrolling is a
little slow).