Re: Upgrading a 90s laptop from 5.1 to 10 -- no FD or CDROM

To: "Greg Troxel" <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>
Subject: Re: Upgrading a 90s laptop from 5.1 to 10 -- no FD or CDROM
From: joelp%sdf.org@localhost
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2023 02:59:08 -0000

>
> I have been doing inplace upgrades on systems for years, almost entirely
> successfully.  My scripts are in pkgsrc/sysutils/etcmanage, which in
> addition to etcmanage has BUILD-NetBSD and INSTALL-NetBSD.  This will
> seem like a lot, but I find once I'm set up, updating is very easy and
> reliable.

Okay, really great info and this looks like a reasonable path to have
staged version upgrades. If I get motivated this is the option.

Still. So nice to enjoy NetBSD 5.1. And Python 2.6.6 &#128514;

Thanks everyone.

-Joel

References:
- Upgrading a 90s laptop from 5.1 to 10 -- no FD or CDROM
  - From: joelp
- Re: Upgrading a 90s laptop from 5.1 to 10 -- no FD or CDROM
  - From: Greg Troxel

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