Updating from 4.9-RELEASE

[Jon Noack]

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

Jon