How to upgrade FreeBSD 13.2 to 14.0

I just found out that FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE will be end-of-life support within 1 month time from now. It’s time to upgrade FreeBSD on one of nas boxes to 14.0-RELEASE. The following is to capture the steps used to perform the upgrade. It’s similar to my old post. SSH into the server, and run tmux or screen. You really don’t want to lose SSH connection during the upgrade. $ ssh kenno@nas2 $ tmux Check the current running version of FreeBSD: root@nas2:~ # freebsd-version 13....

May 29, 2024 · 5 min · 873 words · kenno

How to upgrade FreeBSD from 13.0 to 13.1

I feel upgrading FreeBSD from 13.0 to 13.1 is so minor that it might not worth a blog post. The thing is, I just did this upgrade on one of my 2 nas servers a month ago, and now I forgot how to do this already. This post should be short, and I will include the reference(s) at the end if you’d like to learn more about this update process....

July 19, 2022 · 2 min · 307 words · kenno

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