Hi,

Upgraded my 1.2BETA sun3 to NetBSD-1.2 yesterday.

My check list:
-get kernel sources, make 1.2 kernel and install
-shutdown -r now New kernel
-get other sources, cat the chunks together into .tar.gz files, and
 place them on a local disk
-shutdown to single user
-fsck -pf
-mount -a    	# already mounted, but ran it anyway
-dump / , /var , /usr , and /home to tape
-update 	# start update daemon
-cd / ; -tar --unlink -xzvpf /scratch/NetBSD-1.2/binary/base.tar.gz
-cd /usr/mdec ; disklabel -B sd0  	# this didn't work, disklabel doesn't
					# seem to support -B at all
-./installboot ufsboot bootxx /dev/rsd0c	# didn't work, moaned about 
						# too many blocks
# gave up trying to upgrade bootblock, probably okay anyway
-sync
-cd / ; tar --unlink -xzvpf /scratch/NetBSD-1.2/binary/comp.tar.gz
-tar --unlink -xzvpf /scratch/NetBSD-1.2/binary/games.tar.gz
-tar --unlink -xzvpf /scratch/NetBSD-1.2/binary/man.tar.gz
-tar --unlink -xzvpf /scratch/NetBSD-1.2/binary/misc.tar.gz
-tar --unlink -xzvpf /scratch/NetBSD-1.2/binary/text.tar.gz
-cd /usr/tmp; tar --unlink -xzvpf /scratch/NetBSD-1.2/binary/etc.tar.gz
-update many files in /etc , /root , etc by hand.
-reboot

So everything went pretty smooth, funny about the bootblock though.
The disklabel command was in the NetBSD install notes, installboot I looked
up in the manual.

Jari Kokko