Upgrading Freebsd 11.2 to 12.0-RELEASE

FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE was released today, and that means it’s time to upgrade 2 of FreeBSD 11.2 machines to this latest version. One of my FreeBSD boxes is a desktop used at work, and the upgrade went well without any issues. In this post, I’m going to document how the upgrade is done on my nas server at home. First ensure that the FreeBSD is up to date: root@nas:~ # freebsd-update fetch src component not installed, skipped Looking up update....

December 12, 2018 · 4 min · 679 words · kenno

Upgrading my nas from FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE to 11.2-RELEASE

FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE was released a few days ago. This means it’s time to upgrade the FreeBSD running on my nas. For the most part, this was all what I did: After it’s been upgraded, I also need to update the Zpool. Let’s upgrade the zpool as suggested: Next is to update the boot code. If for whatever reason you’re following this step to update zpool (zroot) on your FreeBSD, make sure you know what is your boot disk is....

June 30, 2018 · 1 min · 113 words · kenno