Author name: Dan Langille

What I would do differently when upgrading from 9.3 to 10.1

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Last night I upgraded the main jail server in my lab from FreeBSD 9.3 to FreeBSD 10.1. I just started using the term, home lab, after discovering http://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/. That server contains, amongst other things, these jails: my development environment for http://dev.freshports.org/ my in house webserver, which hosts the above mentioned website my svn repo an […]

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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

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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

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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

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slocum

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This post has been replaced by a newer one. For reference, the previous post on this server is still available. This system was recently converted to a beadm layout. For future reference, this is the slocum server, which I use for various jails and services. The filesystems, well, some of them: And dmesg:

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