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Ross Penner writes:

>  Reading online, it seems that downgrading isn't supported and
>  it's probably best to just reinstall the system. This seems
>  reasonable enough to me but I have a couple problems I need to
>  address first.
>  
>  I have a lot of data on my /usr partition that I would rather not
>  have to backup and then readd to the system. is there a way I can
>  reinstall and leave parts of the file system intact?

	I'm tempted to say "If you have to ask this question, the
answer is "No."."
	:-)


					Robert Huff