Subject: Re: Problems with 1.3-ALPHA
To: Mark Andres <mark@ratbert.aisol.net>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: current-users
Date: 11/05/1997 06:42:13
On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Mark Andres wrote:
: Umm, do you think someone could write up a quick README and toss it into
: the various directories for people who are downloading the 1.3-ALPHA
: snapshots? Since it is critical that you install a 1.3-ALPHA kernel
: before you upgrade, you might want to alert people to this fact. Since I
: saw no README in /pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.3_ALPHA/mac68k/snapshot I foolishly
: assumed that no special instructions were needed to upgrade.
AFAIK, upgrade "instructions" have always stated installation of a new
kernel must come first. You can't use 1.2 binaries with a 1.1 kernel; that
much should be abvious from 1.2 to 1.3_ALPHA.
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