March 13, 2015

Upgrading from FreeBSD 9.3 to FreeBSD 10.1 using beadm and freebsd-update

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In this post, I will use boot environments to upgrade an existing FreeBSD 9.3 to FreeBSD 10.1, and I will do this from within a chroot. Why? Because I can. You might want to read about my previous attempt and one or two, actually three, things I did to get ready for this. In the following commands, I clone the existing running environment to 10.1-RELEASE, then I mount it to /mnt, chroot into […]

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system/bootenv/default/var does not contain /var

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Much like the system/bootenv/default/usr does not contain /usr issue I recently wrote about, I found the same issue with system/bootenv/default/var For this post, I have booted my FreeBSD 9.3 system from mfsBSD thumb drive. I will import the pool, but not mount it. # zpool import -N system I mounted the filesystem in question, and confirm that there is just one ZFS thing mounted: # mount -t zfs system/bootenv/default/var /mnt # mount -t

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Building for new version of system

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I just upgraded from 9.3 to 10.1. I have not yet complete the install. My userland has been upgraded to 10.1 but my apps have not. I have a tmux session sitting like this: [root@slocum:~] # /usr/sbin/freebsd-update install Installing updates… Completing this upgrade requires removing old shared object files. Please rebuild all installed 3rd party software (e.g., programs installed from the ports tree) and then run “/usr/sbin/freebsd-update install” again to finish installing updates.

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