diff --git a/distrib/notes/amiga/upgrade b/distrib/notes/amiga/upgrade
index 26fc9fc37a55..ea91dbb4d611 100644
--- a/distrib/notes/amiga/upgrade
+++ b/distrib/notes/amiga/upgrade
@@ -1,11 +1,8 @@
-	$NetBSD: upgrade,v 1.13 1998/02/01 16:28:54 is Exp $	
+	$NetBSD: upgrade,v 1.14 1998/05/09 03:49:30 ross Exp $	
 
-The upgrade to NetBSD _VER is a binary upgrade; it would be prohibitive
-to make users upgrade by compiling and installing the _VER sources, and
-it would be very difficult to even compile a set of instructions that
-allowed them to do so.  Because of the various changes to the system,
-it is impractical to upgrade by recompiling from the sources and
-installing.
+The upgrade to NetBSD _VER is a binary upgrade; it can be quite difficult
+to advance to a later version by recompiling from source due primarily
+to interdepencies in the various components.
 
 To do the upgrade, you must have the NetBSD kernel on AmigaDOS and
 you must transfer the miniroot file system miniroot.fs onto the swap
diff --git a/distrib/notes/i386/upgrade b/distrib/notes/i386/upgrade
index 5f21d38fa04d..e6f6497479d4 100644
--- a/distrib/notes/i386/upgrade
+++ b/distrib/notes/i386/upgrade
@@ -1,11 +1,8 @@
-	$NetBSD: upgrade,v 1.13 1998/01/09 18:46:33 perry Exp $	
+	$NetBSD: upgrade,v 1.14 1998/05/09 03:49:30 ross Exp $	
 
-The upgrade to NetBSD _VER is a binary upgrade; it would be prohibitive
-to make users upgrade by compiling and installing the _VER sources, and
-it would be very difficult to even compile a set of instructions that
-allowed them to do so.  Because of the many changes to the system, it
-is difficult and impractical to upgrade by recompiling from the sources
-and installing.
+The upgrade to NetBSD _VER is a binary upgrade; it can be quite difficult
+to advance to a later version by recompiling from source due primarily
+to interdepencies in the various components.
 
 To do the upgrade, you must have the boot floppy image (boot.fs)
 available.  You must also have at least the "base" and "kern"
diff --git a/distrib/notes/mac68k/upgrade b/distrib/notes/mac68k/upgrade
index 42b55127bdf6..f15cee0ce4a7 100644
--- a/distrib/notes/mac68k/upgrade
+++ b/distrib/notes/mac68k/upgrade
@@ -1,11 +1,8 @@
-	$NetBSD: upgrade,v 1.10 1998/01/09 18:46:44 perry Exp $	
+	$NetBSD: upgrade,v 1.11 1998/05/09 03:49:30 ross Exp $	
 
-The upgrade to NetBSD _VER is a binary upgrade; it would be prohibitive
-to make users upgrade by compiling and installing the _VER sources, and
-it would be very difficult to even compile a set of instructions that
-allowed them to do so.  Because of the many changes to the system, it
-is difficult and impractical to upgrade by recompiling from the sources
-and installing.
+The upgrade to NetBSD _VER is a binary upgrade; it can be quite difficult
+to advance to a later version by recompiling from source due primarily
+to interdepencies in the various components.
 
 No automated upgrade procedure exists for upgrading to release _VER for the
 NetBSD/mac68k architecture.  The current procedure is essentially to perform
diff --git a/distrib/notes/pc532/upgrade b/distrib/notes/pc532/upgrade
index 37b9b7132840..c08462e2fd21 100644
--- a/distrib/notes/pc532/upgrade
+++ b/distrib/notes/pc532/upgrade
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
-	$NetBSD: upgrade,v 1.5 1998/01/19 20:34:37 phil Exp $
+	$NetBSD: upgrade,v 1.6 1998/05/09 03:49:31 ross Exp $
 
-The upgrade to NetBSD _VER is a binary upgrade; it would be prohibitive
-to make users upgrade by compiling and installing the _VER sources, and
-it would be very difficult to even compile a set of instructions that
-allowed them to do so.  
+The upgrade to NetBSD _VER is a binary upgrade; it can be quite difficult
+to advance to a later version by recompiling from source due primarily
+to interdepencies in the various components.
 
 To do the upgrade, you must have at least base.tgz on disk and
 a copy of the proper netbsd.default.  It will require quite a bit
diff --git a/distrib/notes/x68k/upgrade b/distrib/notes/x68k/upgrade
index fe41247bb8f4..cd43c63f8e8f 100644
--- a/distrib/notes/x68k/upgrade
+++ b/distrib/notes/x68k/upgrade
@@ -1,11 +1,8 @@
-	$NetBSD: upgrade,v 1.2 1998/01/09 18:48:07 perry Exp $	
+	$NetBSD: upgrade,v 1.3 1998/05/09 03:49:31 ross Exp $	
 
-The upgrade to NetBSD 1.2 is a binary upgrade; it would be prohibitive
-to make users upgrade by compiling and installing the 1.2 sources, and
-it would be very difficult to even compile a set of instructions that
-allowed them to do so.  Because of the many changes to the system, it
-is difficult impractical to upgrade by recompiling from the sources
-and installing.
+The upgrade to NetBSD _VER is a binary upgrade; it can be quite difficult
+to advance to a later version by recompiling from source due primarily
+to interdepencies in the various components.
 
 To do the upgrade, you must have the appropriate kernel-copy floppy
 image on a disk, and the upgr12.fs floppy image on another.  You must