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  10   <info><title>&os; &release.current; Installation Instructions</title>
  11
  12     <author><orgname>The &os; Project</orgname></author>
  13
  14     <pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
  15
  16     <copyright>
  17       <year>2016</year>
  18       <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation Project</holder>
  19     </copyright>
  20
  21     <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks">
  22       &tm-attrib.freebsd;
  23       &tm-attrib.intel;
  24       &tm-attrib.sparc;
  25       &tm-attrib.general;
  26     </legalnotice>
  27
  28   <abstract>
  29     <para>This article gives some brief instructions on installing
  30       &os; &release.current; and upgrading the systems running earlier
  31       releases.</para>
  32   </abstract>
  33 </info>
  34
  35   <sect1 xml:id="install">
  36     <title>Installing &os;</title>
  37
  38     <para>The <uri
  39         xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/bsdinstall.html">Installing
  40           &os;</uri>
  41       chapter of the <uri
  42         xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/">&os;
  43         Handbook</uri> provides more in-depth information about the
  44       installation program itself, including a guided walk-through with
  45       screenshots.</para>
  46   </sect1>
  47
  48   <sect1 xml:id="upgrade">
  49     <title>Upgrading &os;</title>
  50
  51     <para>If you are upgrading from a previous release of &os;, please
  52       read <uri
  53       xlink:href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/&local.rel;R/relnotes.html#upgrade">upgrading
  54       section in the Release Notes</uri> for notable
  55       incompatibilities carefully.</para>
  56
  57     <sect2>
  58       <title>Upgrading from Source</title>
  59
  60       <para>The procedure for doing a source code based update is
  61         described in
  62         <uri xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/synching.html"></uri> and
  63         <uri xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/makeworld.html"></uri>.</para>
  64
  65       <para>For SVN use the <filename>releng/&local.rel;</filename> branch
  66         which will be where any upcoming Security Advisories or Errata
  67         Notices will be applied.</para>
  68     </sect2>
  69
  70     <sect2>
  71       <title>Upgrading Using <quote>&os; Update</quote></title>
  72
  73       <para>The &man.freebsd-update.8; utility supports binary
  74         upgrades of &arch.i386; and &arch.amd64; systems running
  75         earlier FreeBSD releases. Systems running
  76         <literal>9.3-RELEASE</literal>,
  77         <literal>10.3-RC[12]</literal> can upgrade as follows:</para>
  78
  79       <screen>&prompt.root; freebsd-update fetch
  80 &prompt.root; freebsd-update install</screen>
  81
  82       <para>Now the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility can fetch bits
  83         belonging to &release.current;.  During this process
  84         &man.freebsd-update.8; will ask for help in merging
  85         configuration files.</para>
  86
  87       <screen>&prompt.root; freebsd-update upgrade -r &local.rel;-RELEASE</screen>
  88
  89       <para>Due to changes in the way that &os; is packaged on the
  90         release media, two complications may arise in this process if
  91         upgrading from FreeBSD 9.3:</para>
  92
  93       <orderedlist>
  94         <listitem>
  95           <para>The &os;, which previously could appear in either
  96             <filename>/boot/kernel</filename> or
  97             <filename>/boot/GENERIC</filename>, now only appears as
  98             <filename>/boot/kernel</filename>.  As a result, any
  99             kernel appearing in <filename>/boot/GENERIC</filename>
 100             will be deleted.  Please carefully read the output printed
 101             by &man.freebsd-update.8; and confirm that an updated
 102             kernel will be placed into
 103             <filename>/boot/kernel</filename> before proceeding beyond
 104             this point.</para>
 105         </listitem>
 106
 107         <listitem>
 108           <para>The &os; source tree in <filename>/usr/src</filename>
 109             (if present) will be deleted.  (Normally the
 110             &man.freebsd-update.8; utility will update a source tree,
 111             but in this case the changes in release packaging result
 112             in the &man.freebsd-update.8; utility not recognizing that
 113             the source tree from the old release and the source tree
 114             from the new release correspond to the same part of
 115             &os;.)</para>
 116         </listitem>
 117       </orderedlist>
 118
 119       <screen>&prompt.root; freebsd-update install</screen>
 120
 121       <para>The system must now be rebooted with the newly installed
 122         kernel before the non-kernel components are updated.</para>
 123
 124       <screen>&prompt.root; shutdown -r now</screen>
 125
 126       <para>After rebooting, &man.freebsd-update.8; needs to be run
 127         again to install the new userland components:</para>
 128
 129       <screen>&prompt.root; freebsd-update install</screen>
 130
 131       <para>At this point, users of systems being upgraded from &os;
 132         9.3-RELEASE or earlier will be prompted by
 133         &man.freebsd-update.8; to rebuild all third-party applications
 134         (e.g., ports installed from the ports tree) due to updates in
 135         system libraries.</para>
 136
 137       <para>After updating installed third-party applications (and
 138         again, only if &man.freebsd-update.8; printed a message
 139         indicating that this was necessary), run
 140         &man.freebsd-update.8; again so that it can delete the old (no
 141         longer used) system libraries:</para>
 142
 143       <screen>&prompt.root; freebsd-update install</screen>
 144
 145       <para>Finally, reboot into &release.current;</para>
 146
 147       <screen>&prompt.root; shutdown -r now</screen>
 148     </sect2>
 149   </sect1>
 150 </article>