FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE Installation Instructions
Abstract
This article gives some brief instructions on installing FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE and upgrading the systems running earlier releases.
Table of Contents
Installing FreeBSD
The Installing FreeBSD
chapter of the FreeBSD
Handbook
provides more in-depth information about the
installation program itself, including a guided walk-through with
screenshots.
Upgrading FreeBSD
If you are upgrading from a previous release of FreeBSD, please
read upgrading section in the Release Notes
for
notable incompatibilities carefully.
Upgrading from Source
The procedure for doing a source code based update is described
in Synchronizing Source
and Rebuilding
world
.
For SVN use the releng/11.1
branch which will be
where any upcoming Security Advisories or Errata Notices will be
applied.
Upgrading Using "FreeBSD Update"
The
freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of i386 and
amd64 systems running earlier FreeBSD releases. Systems running
10.3-RELEASE
, 11.0-RELEASE
, or
11.1-RC[123]
can upgrade as follows:
# freebsd-update fetch # freebsd-update install
Now the freebsd-update(8) utility can fetch bits belonging to 11.1-RELEASE. During this process freebsd-update(8) will ask for help in merging configuration files.
# freebsd-update upgrade -r 11.1-RELEASE
# freebsd-update install
The system must now be rebooted with the newly installed kernel before the non-kernel components are updated.
# shutdown -r now
After rebooting, freebsd-update(8) needs to be run again to install the new userland components:
# freebsd-update install
At this point, users of systems being upgraded from earlier FreeBSD releases will be prompted by freebsd-update(8) to rebuild all third-party applications (e.g., ports installed from the ports tree) due to updates in system libraries.
After updating installed third-party applications (and again, only if freebsd-update(8) printed a message indicating that this was necessary), run freebsd-update(8) again so that it can delete the old (no longer used) system libraries:
# freebsd-update install
Finally, reboot into 11.1-RELEASE
# shutdown -r now
Last modified on: May 16, 2021 by Allan Jude