"Dr. Nicola Mingotti" <nmingo...@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed-09-Oct-2024 23:05, Benny Siegert wrote:
>>
>>
>> Am 09.10.24 um 22:57 schrieb Dr. Nicola Mingotti:
>>> - some important files are overwritten : rc.conf, /etc/passwd ...
>>>    once [a few hours ago] i lost /etc/fstab (but i was copying one 
>>> set at a time and
>>>    rebooting to see what happens)
>>
>> You can use sysupgrade from pkgsrc for this. Just point it at the 
>> directory containing the sets. It is careful not to overwrite your 
>> configuration files when unpacking stuff.
>>
>
> Haha ! I will definitely try that tomorrow.
>

I've not done a netboot myself but maybe this approach works for your needs

=> https://www.netbsd.org/docs/network/netboot/

I have this sysupgrade.sh script to single step the process

 1 #!/bin/sh
 2 
 3
 RELEASEDIR="https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-10/latest/$(uname
 -m)"
 4 
 5 
 6 #doas sysupgrade fetch $RELEASEDIR
 7 #doas sysupgrade modules
 8 #doas sysupgrade kernel
 9 #doas sysupgrade sets
10 
11 #doas sysupgrade etcupdate
12 #doas sysupgrade postinstall
13 doas sysupgrade clean


-- 
vl

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