on 7/12/01 11:15, Ken Wellsch at kwellsch@tampabay.rr.com wrote:

> Steven Sartorius wrote:
>> 
>> I'm currently running 1.5W and decided to upgrade to 1.5.1 by installing
>> from source.   This morning I grabbed the tarballs from the 1.5.1 release
>> directory and built a new (GENERIC) kernel with no problems.  When I go to
>> boot the new kernel, though, things start off normally (the kernel starts to
>> load) but before I see any boot messages the machine spontaneously reboots.
>> Never seen this before in NetBSD.  Anyone have any ideas?
> 
> 1.5W is a release of -current.  While 1.5.1 is a upgrade from 1.5.
> So you are running an "old" kernel via 1.5.1 with a new userland (-current).
> 
> Trust me, 1.5.1 is *not* an upgrade to -current (e.g. 1.5W).
> 
> Apologies this is confusing... the lettered 1.5 versions are branches
> of -current as I understand the naming scheme.
> 
> -- Ken

Guess I'm still enough of a newbie that I didn't realize this.  I had
thought that the way the numbering scheme worked was 1.5, then 1.5A-Z and
then 1.5.1.  Mea culpa!  I guess this means that from 1.5W I can 'upgrade'
to 1.5X-Z and then 1.6.

Thanks for the explanation...

Steve