1. Get binary sets
2. Unpack Kernel
3. Reboot
4. Binary sets
5. Postinstall check
6. Postinstall fix
7. Reboot
8. Upgrade packages as needed.

I take it that you have /path/to/sets set to /INSTALL

• If not set already, set -o braceexpand
• Fetch binary sets from a NetBSD Mirror. I use the DK mirror.
• echo “mget *gz” | ftp -Va ftp://ftp.dk.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-5.1.2/i386/binary/sets
• Unpack modules
• progress -z -f /INSTALL/modules.tgz pax -rpe
• Unpack Kernel
• progress -z -f /INSTALL/kern-GENERIC.tgz pax -rpe
• Reboot server to let new kernel take effect, remember to set braceexpand if you haven't stuffed it in a login script already.
• Unpack base, comp, games, man, misc, tests and text binary sets.
• for file in INSTALL/{b,c,g,ma,mi,t,x}*tgz ; do progress -zf $file pax -rpe ; done
• Check etc.tgz via postinstall
• postinstall -s /INSTALL/etc.tgz check
• And then fix via postinstall
• postinstall -s /INSTALL/etc.tgz fix
• reboot
• … Enjoy new and upgraded server..