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Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 14:32:34 -0500
From: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU>
To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
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On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 11:12:21AM -0800, Doug White wrote:

> Its in UPDATING on -CURRENT.  I guess we need to explicitly warn people to
> read the -CURRENT UPDATING and not the -STABLE one when planning their
> upgrade.

For what it's worth I was reading the right file.  If you want to warn
people about something warn them not to be afraid of doing something
before they actually try it.  :-(  Booting a 5.X kernel in a 4.X world
sounded scary but seems to have worked just fine.

> Also see the section "To upgrade in-place from 4.x-stable to current" near
> the bottom of the file.

Missed that part completely. :-(   Thanks.

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