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"Edmund Craske" <edmund@m00is.net> writes:

> Note that the procedure shown will likely break your system
> if you're upgrading from 5.1 or earlier, so do:
> shutdown -r now
> then boot into single user mode, as described in the handbook,
> instead of shutdown now.

I guess this teaches me not to try to paraphrase the handbook again.
Thanks for the friendly kick in the butt.

> The process described by Kai is not as depicted in UPDATING...

Indeed.  Hm.  See above...

Kai