Re: Upgrade order for armv7hf rpi

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On Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at 11:35:57PM +0100, Luis P. Mendes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ running 9.0_BETA from August 18th, and
> would like to upgrade the system.
> sysupgrade returns an error, so I'm not using it.
> 
> What I've done so far was:
> Copied the sets to some directory.
> Opened via vnconfig the most recent installation image armv7.img.
> 
> What is the order to upgrade the system?
> Is this one correct?
> 1. Copy the /netbsd file from the image to the / over the old one.
> 2. Copy all the files of the image's /boot the the /boot dir.

You need to reboot here. It's not guaranteed that an old kernel can run
new binaries.

We make better guarantees on new kernels running old binaries :-)

> 3. Extract all the sets of the base system.
(Skip etc.tar.gz.)

> 4. Run etcupdate