Upgrade to 11 or even -current...

[geno_bsd]

hey there !

it is possible to upgrade to 11 or even -CURRENT ?

tia !

[kraileth]

Of course. GhostBSD is actually FreeBSD preconfigured and with some packages preinstalled, no more, no less.

If you want to update to 11.0, first make sure that you're on the latest 10.3 patchlevel:

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freebsd-update fetch install

Then to can go to 11.0 useing the following commands:

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freebsd-update upgrade -r 11.0-RELEASE
freebsd-update install

As a next step reboot so the new kernel gets loaded and then install the userland part of 11.0:

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shutdown -r now
freebsd-update install

Repeat the last step (reboot once more and repeat the freebsd-update command again) to complete the update.

If you want to use -CURRENT, you cannot update in binary but have to compile the system yourself. However unless you have a good reason to go with -CURRENT, I would recommend against it. You could however try out -STABLE if you want something of a middle ground between -RELEASE and -CURRENT. Feel free to post again if you're interested in that.

[geno_bsd]

YES ! i wanna 11 -STABLE . . .

[geno_bsd]

Feel free to post again if you're interested in that

yep , i´m interested !

[kraileth]

Feel free to post again if you're interested in that

yep , i´m interested !

Alright! -STABLE and -CURRENT are built from source. The first thing to do is to make sure that your source directory is empty and then checkout the latest -STABLE code from SVN:

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rm -rf /usr/src/*
svnlite co svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/11 /usr/src

Then you compile the userland ("world") and kernel (in that order!):

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cd /usr/src
make buildworld
make buildkernel

This will take some time to finish, depending on your hardware. Finally you install the system (in reverse order; it probably doesn't matter in this case, but form a habit of it):

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make installkernel
make installworld

Reboot your box and you should have an 11-STABLE system (which after some more work will become 11.1 in a couple of month, BTW.) Have fun!

[macondo]

Thanks kraileth, it worked flawlesly from FreeBSD 11.0 to 11.1