Hi,
I'm running a FreeBSD server 8.0 Release. And I would want to upgrade it to 8.1.
In the handbook, the steps seem a bit complicated in contrast with what the announcement says at url: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.1R/announce.html
Is that it?
So far I have fetched the latest ports collection with "portsnap fetch update" and I'm upgrading each port to its latest version before taking the big step.
Any caveats I might fall into? Missing steps?
Thanks for your assistance, this is the first time I'll be upgrading the whole system.
I'm running a FreeBSD server 8.0 Release. And I would want to upgrade it to 8.1.
In the handbook, the steps seem a bit complicated in contrast with what the announcement says at url: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.1R/announce.html
The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of i386 and amd64 systems running earlier FreeBSD releases. Systems running 7.[0123]-RELEASE, 8.0-RELEASE, 8.1-BETA1, or 8.1-RC[12] can upgrade as follows:
# freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.1-RELEASE
During this process, FreeBSD Update may ask the user to help by merging some configuration files or by confirming that the automatically performed merging was done correctly.
# freebsd-update install
The system must be rebooted with the newly installed kernel before continuing.
# shutdown -r now
After rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to install the new userland components, and the system needs to be rebooted again:
# freebsd-update install
Is that it?
So far I have fetched the latest ports collection with "portsnap fetch update" and I'm upgrading each port to its latest version before taking the big step.
Any caveats I might fall into? Missing steps?
Thanks for your assistance, this is the first time I'll be upgrading the whole system.