Re: planning to upgrade to 14.0

On Wed, 22 Nov 2023 20:25:01 +0000
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Nov 2023 15:00:03 -0500
> LuMiWa <lumiwa@dismail.de> wrote:
> 
> > Systems running 12.4-RELEASE or 13.2-RELEASE can upgrade as follows:
> > 
> > # freebsd-update fetch
> > # freebsd-update install
> 
> 	This is just in case you are not fully up to date in your
> current installation - there was a bug found in freebsd-update
> because a file in 13.2 and earlier became a directory in 14.0 and
> freebsd-update didn't handle it. So it is important that your old
> release is fully up to date before attempting to upgrade to 14.0.
> 
> > Now the freebsd-update(8) utility can fetch bits belonging to
> > 14.0-RELEASE. During this process freebsd-update(8) will ask for
> > help in merging configuration files.
> > 
> > I did run freebsd-update fetch but there are nothing to install. It
> > is to early and files are not exist or I do not need them and I
> > should just run 
> 
> 	If there was nothing to install then you should be fine to go
> ahead with the normal upgrade.
> 
> > freebsd-update upgrade -r 14.0-RELEASE
> > 
> > And my hard disk:
> > 
> >  gpart show =>       40  500118112  nvd0  GPT  (238G)
> >          40     532480     1  efi  (260M)
> >      532520  490201088     2  freebsd-ufs  (234G)
> >   490733608    8388608     3  freebsd-swap  (4.0G)
> >   499122216     995936        - free -  (486M)
> 
> 	You're running UFS so you don't need to worry about the ZFS
> changes and the need to update the boot loader before you upgrade the
> ZFS pool.
> 

Thank you very much. It was so fast :)


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