Re: upgrading distribution

Michael Wileman <[email protected]> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:32:46 -0400 (EDT)

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.ports.hpcsh
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 15:23:20 -0400, Michael Wileman wrote:
>
>> Am I missing anything here? All the online help talks about an initial
>> install, but no one discusses an upgrade.
>
> No need to reformat the card, just untar the sets except the etc.tgz
> in single user mode (or on another machine) and run postinstall(8).
>
> My -current i386 laptop has started its life as 1.5 or something like that.
>

So you mean untar them OVER the current installation? And can I run 
postinstall also on the other machine, or it must be run on the 
680?

I'll check out the man page.

Thanks,
Mike