FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE Installation +Instructions

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This article gives some brief instructions on installing FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE and +upgrading the systems running earlier releases.
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1 Installing FreeBSD

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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.

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2 Upgrading FreeBSD

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2.1 Upgrading from Source

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The procedure for doing a source code based update is described in http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/synching.html +and http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook//makeworld.html.

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For SVN use the releng/9.2 branch which will be where +any upcoming Security Advisories or Errata Notices will be applied.

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Note that CVS is not supported.

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2.2 Upgrading Using “FreeBSD +Update”

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The +freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary + upgrades of i386 and amd64 systems running earlier FreeBSD releases. Systems +running 8.[34]-RELEASE, 9.[01]-RELEASE, 9.1-BETA[123], or + 9.1-RC[1234] can upgrade as follows:

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+# freebsd-update fetch
+# freebsd-update install
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Now the +freebsd-update(8) utility can fetch bits + belonging to 9.2-RELEASE. During this process +freebsd-update(8) will ask for help in merging + configuration files.

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+# freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.2-RELEASE
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Due to changes in the way that FreeBSD is packaged on the release media, two +complications may arise in this process if upgrading from FreeBSD 8.x:

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The FreeBSD, which previously could appear in either /boot/kernel or /boot/GENERIC, now +only appears as /boot/kernel. As a result, any +kernel appearing in /boot/GENERIC will be deleted. Please +carefully read the output printed by +freebsd-update(8) and confirm that an updated + kernel will be placed into /boot/kernel before +proceeding beyond this point.
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The FreeBSD source tree in /usr/src (if present) will +be deleted. (Normally the +freebsd-update(8) utility will update a source +tree, but in this case the changes in release packaging result in the +freebsd-update(8) utility not recognizing that + the source tree from the old release and the source tree from the new release +correspond to the same part of FreeBSD.)
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+# freebsd-update install
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The system must now be rebooted with the newly installed kernel before the +non-kernel components are updated.

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+# shutdown -r now
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After rebooting, +freebsd-update(8) needs to be run again to +install the new userland components:

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+# freebsd-update install
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At this point, users of systems being upgraded from FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE or +earlier 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.

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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:

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+# freebsd-update install
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Finally, reboot into 9.2-RELEASE

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+# shutdown -r now
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