I'm a little confused. What I think you are describing is:

a) Take a pre-existing 1.6.0 system
b) download all the  archives from  
"ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.6.1/cobalt/binary/sets"
c) extract all archives on top of the 1.6.0 system, overwriting older 
versions of files

Is this what you mean?

thanks --
chas

Andre Schulze as8-at-rcs.urz.tu-dresden.de |netbsd| wrote:

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>> Am Mon den 04 Aug 2003 um 10:21:35AM +0100 schrieb Frank Mattes:
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>>> I'm wondering if its possible to  just download the binary for 1.6.1 
>>> and unzip/tar it in the / directory.
>>>
>>>   
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>> 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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