FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE Installation +
FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE Installation Instructions
-

The FreeBSD Project

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FreeBSD is a registered trademark of the FreeBSD Foundation.

Intel, Celeron, EtherExpress, i386, i486, Itanium, Pentium, and Xeon are trademarks or @@ -39,22 +39,22 @@ its members.

Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks. Where those designations appear in this document, and the FreeBSD Project was aware of the trademark claim, the designations have been followed -by the “™” or the “®” symbol.

+by the “™” or the “®” symbol.

-
+

This article gives some brief instructions on installing FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE and upgrading the systems running earlier releases.

1 Installing FreeBSD

The +

2 Upgrading FreeBSD

If you are upgrading from a previous release of FreeBSD, please read upgrading section in the Release Notes for notable incompatibilities carefully.

2.1 Upgrading from Source

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.

+href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html" +target="_top">http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html.

For SVN use the releng/9.1 branch which will be where +

For SVN use the releng/9.1 branch which will be where any upcoming Security Advisories or Errata Notices will be applied. The branch tag -to use for updating the source is RELENG_9_1 for CVS.

+to use for updating the source is RELENG_9_1 for CVS.

2.2 Upgrading Using “FreeBSD +

2.2 Upgrading Using “FreeBSD Update”

The -freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary +freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of i386 and amd64 systems running earlier FreeBSD releases. Systems -running 7.[34]-RELEASE, 8.[123]-RELEASE, or - 9.1-RC[123] can upgrade as follows:

+running 7.[34]-RELEASE, 8.[12]-RELEASE, 9.0-RELEASE, 9.1-BETA1, or 9.1-RC[123] can upgrade +as follows:

First, ensure that your current system is up to date; a change was recently made to -freebsd-update(8) (Errata Notice freebsd-update(8) (Errata Notice FreeBSD-EN-12:01.freebsd-update) which is needed in order to upgrade to FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE.

-# freebsd-update fetch
-# freebsd-update install
++# freebsd-update fetch
+# freebsd-update install
 
 
 Now the 
-freebsd-update(8) utility can fetch bits
+freebsd-update(8) utility can fetch bits
 	belonging to 9.1-RELEASE. During this process 	
-freebsd-update(8) will ask for help in merging
+freebsd-update(8) will ask for help in merging
 	configuration files.
 
--# freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RELEASE
++# freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RELEASE
 
 
 Due to changes in the way that FreeBSD is packaged on the 	release media, two
@@ -137,79 +138,79 @@ complications may arise in this process 
 

 
 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
+class="filename">/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
+freebsd-update(8) and confirm that an updated
+	 kernel will be placed into 	 /boot/kernel before
 proceeding beyond 	 this point.
 
 
 
-The FreeBSD source tree in /usr/src 	 (if present) will
+
The FreeBSD source tree in /usr/src 	 (if present) will
 be deleted. (Normally the 	 
-freebsd-update(8) utility will update a source
+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
+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.)
 
 
 
--# freebsd-update install
++# freebsd-update install
 
 
 The system must now be rebooted with the newly installed 	kernel before the
 non-kernel components are updated.
 
--# shutdown -r now
++# shutdown -r now
 
 
 After rebooting, 
-freebsd-update(8) needs to be run 	again to
+freebsd-update(8) needs to be run 	again to
 install the new userland components:
 
--# freebsd-update install
++# freebsd-update install
 
 
 At this point, users of systems being upgraded from FreeBSD 	8.2-RELEASE or
 earlier will be prompted by 	
-freebsd-update(8) to rebuild all third-party
+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
+freebsd-update(8) printed a message
 	indicating that this was necessary), run 	
-freebsd-update(8) again so that it can delete the
+freebsd-update(8) again so that it can delete the
 old (no 	longer used) system libraries:
 
--# freebsd-update install
++# freebsd-update install
 
 
 Finally, reboot into 9.1-RELEASE
 
--# shutdown -r now
++# shutdown -r now

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