Best way to update FreeBSD 11 ?

Sergey Manucharian sm at ara-ler.com
Thu Dec 3 15:22:47 UTC 2015


Excerpts from Daniel Nebdal's message from Thu 03-Dec-15 01:22:
> > On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 02:39:24PM -0700, Sergey Manucharian wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> What is the best way to update FreeBSD 11-CURRENT?
> >> Initially I've installed it from an image from [0] a couple of months ago.
> 
> If you have root on ZFS, you can shuffle your directories around to get
> something compatible with beadm [1] . With that in place, you could clone
> your existing install, chroot into it, do the upgrade there, and then if it
> looks like it should work you can activate it and reboot to test.

Thanks, Daniel!

I'll definitely try that. I do have root on ZFS.

Sergey


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