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Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 20:13:55 -0700
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On Sep 27, 2006, at 7:49 PM, Norberto Meijome wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:46:42 -0700
> Chris <snagit@cbpratt.prohosting.com> wrote:
>
>> Presuming I can live with
>> certain driver issues on 6.1 RELEASE P6, are there any serious
>> dangers or unique procedures in going backward, to RELENG_6_1 from
>> RELENG_6 that suggest it would be better to just start from scratch?
>> I've not fallen back from CURRENT to a RELEASE, this will be my first
>> time.
> I did then 6.2-Prerelease to 6.1-p6 to 6.2-Prerelease to 6.1p6 to  
> 6.2 journey
> ...
> Overall, pretty painless experience.

Thank you both for your responses. I'm starting the process now  
because the unexpected oddities seem to mount and this system should  
go live this week... it was so stable and I was warned about  
following the bleeding edge at least twice now.