upgrade revision 1.3.2.1
1 1.2 thorpej It is possible to easily upgrade your existing NetBSD/hp300 system 2 1.2 thorpej using the upgrade program in the miniroot. If you wish to upgrade 3 1.2 thorpej your system by this method, simply select the `upgrade' option once 4 1.2 thorpej the miniroot has booted. The upgrade program with then guide you 5 1.2 thorpej through the procedure. The upgrade program will: 6 1.2 thorpej 7 1.2 thorpej * Enable the network based on your system's current 8 1.2 thorpej network configuration. 9 1.2 thorpej 10 1.2 thorpej * Mount your existing filesystems. 11 1.2 thorpej 12 1.2 thorpej * Extract binary sets from the media of your choice. 13 1.2 thorpej 14 1.2 thorpej * Fixup your system's existing /etc/fstab, changing the 15 1.2 thorpej occurrences of `ufs' to `ffs' and let you edit the 16 1.2 thorpej resulting file. 17 1.2 thorpej 18 1.2 thorpej * Make new device nodes in your root filesystem. 19 1.2 thorpej 20 1.2 thorpej * Copy a new kernel onto your root partition. 21 1.2 thorpej NOTE: the existing kernel WILL NOT be backed up; doing 22 1.3 jtc so would be pointless, since older kernels may not be 23 1.3.2.1 thorpej capable of running NetBSD _VER executables. 24 1.2 thorpej 25 1.2 thorpej * Install a new boot block. 26 1.2 thorpej 27 1.2 thorpej * Check your filesystems for integrity. 28 1.2 thorpej 29 1.2 thorpej While using the miniroot's upgrade program is the preferred method 30 1.2 thorpej of upgrading your system, it is possible to upgrade your system 31 1.2 thorpej manually. To do this, follow the following procedure: 32 1.2 thorpej 33 1.2 thorpej * Place _at least_ the `base' binary set in a filesystem 34 1.2 thorpej accessible to the target machine. A local filesystem 35 1.3.2.1 thorpej is preferred, since the NFS subsystem in the NetBSD _VER 36 1.3 jtc kernel may be incompatible with your old binaries. 37 1.2 thorpej 38 1.3.2.1 thorpej * Back up your pre-existing kernel and copy the _VER 39 1.2 thorpej kernel into your root partition. 40 1.2 thorpej 41 1.3.2.1 thorpej * Reboot with the _VER kernel into single-user mode. 42 1.2 thorpej 43 1.2 thorpej * Check all filesystems: 44 1.2 thorpej 45 1.3 jtc /sbin/fsck -pf 46 1.2 thorpej 47 1.2 thorpej * Mount all local filesystems: 48 1.2 thorpej 49 1.2 thorpej /sbin/mount -a -t nonfs 50 1.2 thorpej 51 1.2 thorpej * If you keep /usr or /usr/share on an NFS server, you 52 1.2 thorpej will want to mount those filesystems as well. To do 53 1.2 thorpej this, you will need to enable the network: 54 1.2 thorpej 55 1.2 thorpej sh /etc/netstart 56 1.2 thorpej 57 1.3 jtc * Run the update(8) daemon, to ensure that new programs 58 1.3 jtc are actually stored on disk. 59 1.3 jtc 60 1.3 jtc update 61 1.2 thorpej 62 1.2 thorpej * Make sure you are in the root filesystem and extract 63 1.2 thorpej the `base' binary set: 64 1.2 thorpej 65 1.2 thorpej cd / 66 1.2 thorpej tar --unlink -zxvpf /path/to/base11.tar.gz 67 1.2 thorpej 68 1.2 thorpej NOTE: the `--unlink' option is _very_ important! 69 1.2 thorpej 70 1.2 thorpej * Install a new boot block: 71 1.2 thorpej 72 1.2 thorpej cd /usr/mdec 73 1.2 thorpej disklabel -B <root disk, e.g. sd0> 74 1.2 thorpej 75 1.2 thorpej * Sync the filesystems: 76 1.2 thorpej 77 1.2 thorpej sync 78 1.2 thorpej 79 1.2 thorpej * At this point you may extract any other binary sets 80 1.2 thorpej you may have placed on local filesystems, or you may 81 1.2 thorpej wish to extract additional sets at a later time. 82 1.2 thorpej To extract these sets, use the following commands: 83 1.2 thorpej 84 1.2 thorpej cd / 85 1.2 thorpej tar --unlink -zxvpf <path to set> 86 1.2 thorpej 87 1.2 thorpej NOTE: you SHOULD NOT extract the `etc' set if upgrading. Instead, you 88 1.2 thorpej should extract that set into another area and carefully merge the changes 89 1.2 thorpej by hand. 90
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