On 1/25/2004 1:32 PM, Ken Smith wrote: > 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. It's mentioned in the "Source Upgrades" sub-section of the "Notes on Upgrading from FreeBSD 4.X" section of the Early Adopter's Guide: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.2R/early-adopter.html#AEN192 The "Common Notes" sub-section is also extrememly informative: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.2R/early-adopter.html#AEN198 JonReceived on Sun Jan 25 2004 - 12:53:58 UTC
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