Dear Andre,

just for my own education, and because I need to re-install netbsd 
after sorting out my harddisk problem (eg getting a new drive). How 
do you stop all services ?
I can't do a netboot, because I don't have a intel machine with 
bsd/linux running.
It would be really nice to  have the install cd which would give you 
a interactive shell like in the debian distributions.

Frank

>Am Mon den 04 Aug 2003 um 10:21:35AM +0100 schrieb Frank Mattes:
>
>>  I'm wondering if its possible to  just download the binary for 1.6.1
>>  and unzip/tar it in the / directory.
>>
>Yes, this does work indeed. However, i did a netboot for this and mounted
>the disks in /mnt before the update. Maybe that is a bit too much safety,
>but i felt better this way.
>tar zxvf --unlink $DISTFILE should do, too (after stopping all services).
>
>Bye,
>
>	andre


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