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From: "Bjoern Koenig" <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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Erich Dollansky wrote:

> You can upgrade to 5.3 after it is released.

Where "upgrade" means "format your hard disk and do a fresh clean =
installation".

I already tried to upgrade a 4.10 to 5.3 a half dozen times; it failed =
always. I didn't expect anything else because 4 and 5 are too different.

Bj=C3=B6rn