Upgrading to 14.1 from 14.0

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My understanding from the documentation is that you must run the following commands to upgrade your existing system before going to a new version of FreeBSD.

The following instructions don't work as expected. When I run the "Fetch" command, the system lists 100+ items, and then stops at a cursor like this :
From there, you must keep the enter button down to come to the end of the list, to which I see (END). You cannot enter the install command or any other command for that matter. The only way I have gotten out of this screen is hitting ctrl-z. Then executing the install command yields nothing. What am I missing? Thank you in advance.
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The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of amd64,arm64, and i386 systems running earlier FreeBSD releases. Systemsrunning 13.3-RELEASE or 14.0-RELEASE can upgrade as follows:

# freebsd-update fetch
# freebsd-update install
 
jbl85 said:
When I run the "Fetch" command, the system lists 100+ items, and then stops at a cursor like this :
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The installation script shows you the items using a pager. As far as I know the usual pager is "less". In the pager you can navigate using the cursor keys, page up and down and so on. You can try that by piping the result of a directory listing through a pager, for example by find ~/*|less.
The key "q" should quit the pager. With CTRL-Z you just put it in the background. With "fg" it should be moved to the foreground again. With the script shifted to the background the installation script does not finish. This is what you observe.
 
chrbr said:
The installation script shows you the items using a pager. As far as I know the usual pager is "less". In the pager you can navigate using the cursor keys, page up and down and so on. You can try that by piping the result of a directory listing through a pager, for example by find ~/*|less.
The key "q" should quit the pager. With CTRL-Z you just put it in the background. With "fg" it should be moved to the foreground again. With the script shifted to the background the installation script does not finish. This is what you observe.
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That was it. The simple key I needed was "q" to get out of the pager. Thank you.
 
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