"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