The upgrade to NetBSD 1.1 is a binary upgrade; it would be prohibitive to make users upgrade by compiling and installing the 1.1 sources, and it would be very difficult to even compile a set of instructions that allowed them to do so. Because of the various changes to the system, the largest being the 64-bit file size support and shared libraries, it is impractical to upgrade by recompiling from the sources and installing. To do the upgrade, you must have the NetBSD kernel on AmigaDOS and you must transfer the upgrade filesystem upgr-11.fs onto the swap partition of the NetBSD hard disk. You must also have at least the "base11" binary distribution set available, so that you can upgrade with it, using one of the upgrade methods described above. Finally, you must have sufficient disk space available to install the new binaries. Since the old binaries are being overwritten in place, you only need space for the new binaries, which weren't previously on the system. If you have a few megabytes free on each of your root and /usr partitions, you should have enough space. Since upgrading involves replacing the kernel, and most of the system binaries, it has the potential to cause data loss. You are strongly advised to BACK UP ANY IMPORTANT DATA ON YOUR DISK, whether on the NetBSD partition or on another operating system's partition, before beginning the upgrade process. To upgrade your system, follow the following instructions: Transfer the upgrade miniroot filesystem onto the hard disk partition used by NetBSD for swapping, as described in the "Preparing your System for NetBSD Installation" section above. Now boot up NetBSD using the 1.1 kernel using the loadbsd command: loadbsd -b netbsd You should see the screen clear and some information about your system as the kernel configures the hardware. Note which hard disk device is configured that contains your root and swap partition. When prompted for the root device, type 'sd0*' (replacing 0 with the disk number that NetBSD used for your root/swap device). The '*' character indicates that the root filesystem is contained on the swap partition. When you reach the prompt asking you for a shell name, just hit return. You will be presented with some information about the upgrade process and a warning message, and will be asked if you wish to proceed with the upgrade process. If you answer negatively, the upgrade process will stop, and your disk will not be modified. If you answer affirmatively, the upgrade process will begin, and your disk will be modified. You may hit Control-C to stop the upgrade process at any time. However, if you hit it at an inopportune moment, your system may be left in an inconsistent (and possibly unusable) state. You will be asked if you wish to upgrade your file systems to the new file system format. If you do, reply affirmatively. If you don't have your file systems upgraded now, you should probably do it manually after the install process is complete, by using "fsck -c 2". Read the fsck(8) manual page for more details. The upgrade program will then check your root file system, and, if you approved, will upgrade it to the new file system format. It will then mount your root file system on /mnt. If your file systems are being upgraded, the upgrade script will copy the new fsck(8) program to your hard disk and upgrade your remaining file systems. The upgrade program will then mount all of your file systems under /mnt. (In other words, your root partition will be mounted on /mnt, your /usr partition on /mnt/usr, etc.) If you don't already have the NetBSD distribution sets on your disk, look in the installation section for information on how to transfer them to your disk. Once the distribution sets are transferred to your disk, continue here. (Obviously, if the NetBSD distribution sets are already on your disk, because you've transferred them before starting the upgrade process, you don't need to transfer them again now!) After the software has been transferred to the machine (or mounted, in the case of upgrading via NFS), change into the directory containing the "base11" distribution set. Once you are there, run the "Set_tmp_dir" command, and hit return at the prompt to select the default answer for the temporary directory's path name. (It should be the path name of the directory that you're in.) Run the command "Extract base11" to upgrade the base distribution. Repeat the above two steps for all of the sets you wish to upgrade. (For each, change into the directory containing the set, run "Set_tmp_dir" and accept the default path name, then run the "Extract " command.) If you were previously using the security distribution set, you MUST upgrade to the new version, or you will not be able to log in when the upgrade process is complete. Similarly, if you were not previously using the security set, you must NOT upgrade to the new version. When you are done upgrading all of the distribution sets you wish to upgrade, issue the command "Cleanup". It will clean up the installation, by remaking some system databases. When it is complete, you should use "halt" to halt the system. You will probably also want to copy the release "netbsd" kernel image to your root at some point. Your system has now been upgraded to NetBSD 1.1. After a new kernel has been copied to your hard disk, your machine is a complete NetBSD 1.1 system. However, that doesn't mean that you're finished with the upgrade process. There are several things that you should do, or might have to do, to insure that the system works properly. First, if you did not upgrade your file systems to the new file system format during the upgrade process, you may want to do so now, with "fsck -c 2". If you are unsure about the process, it's suggested that you read the fsck(8) manual page. Second, you will probably want to get the etc11 distribution, extract it, and compare its contents with those in your /etc/ directory. You will probably want to replace some of your system configuration files, or incorporate some of the changes in the new versions into yours. Third, you will probably want to update the set of device nodes you have in /dev. If you've changed the contents of /dev by hand, you will need to be careful about this, but if not, you can just cd into /dev, and run the command "sh MAKEDEV all". Fourth, you must deal with certain changes in the formats of some of the configuration files. The most notable change is that the "options" given to many of the file systems in /etc/fstab or by hand have changed, and some of the file systems have changed names. To find out what the new options are, it's suggested that you read the manual page for the file systems' mount commands, for example mount_nfs(8) for NFS. (Note that the information for mounts of type "ufs", i.e. Fast File Systems, are contained in the mount(8) man page.) Finally, you will want to delete old binaries that were part of the version of NetBSD that you upgraded from and have since been removed from the NetBSD distribution. You might also want to recompile any locally-built binaries, to take advantage of the shared libraries. (Note that any new binaries that you build will be dynamically linked, and therefore take advantage of the shared libraries, by default. For information on how to make statically linked binaries, see the cc(1) and ld(1) manual pages.)