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don't claim the old /etc configuration is merged in, 'cause it ain't so. 

noted in pr 9662.
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.\" $NetBSD: upgrade,v 1.8 2000/11/02 16:40:45 mbw Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: upgrade,v 1.9 2000/12/23 00:09:05 lukem Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1999, 2000 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@ -108,11 +108,17 @@ another operating system's partition, before beginning the upgrade
process.
.Pp
The upgrade procedure using the
.Ic sysinst No tool is similar to
an installation, but without the hard disk partitioning.
Another difference is that existing configuration files in
.Ic sysinst
tool is similar to an installation, but without the hard disk partitioning.
The original
.Pa /etc
are backed up and merged with the new files. Getting the binary
directory is renamed to
.Pa /etc.old ,
and no attempt is made to merge any of the previous configuration into
the new system except that the previous
.Pa /etc/fstab
file is copied into the new configuration.
Getting the binary
sets is done in the same manner as the installation procedure;
refer to the installation part of the document
for how to do this. Also, some sanity checks are done, i.e.