FreeBSD
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Hello
Just upgrade my pfsense from 2.0.1 to 2.0.2. Everything seems to be fine by now.
Wanted also to upgrade FreeBSD to a newer one (have 8.1 now). Tried to go through the steps are mentioned here http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.2R/announce.html in the "FreeBSD Upgrade" section but got following errors:
I'm completely noob in bsd systems, but maybe there's someone could help me to solve this issue.
The reason i wanted to upgrade it, besides just having it up-to-date is that i'm running it virtualized with Hyper-V (2008 R2) and starting from FreeBSD 8.2 they've got integration components for it.
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I'm not sure you can upgrade just the BSD part of pfSense or not.
Does the 2.1 version have the OS level you need?
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/board,53.0.html
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No, you can't just upgrade the underlying FreeBSD OS using freebsd-upgrade.
pfsense is much more than just a pretty webGUI over the base OS, it also contains numerous patches, updated software (e.g. openssl, ipsec-tools, isc dhcpd etc) etc. Check the sources at https://github.com/pfsense
Your best bet (depending on the features you'll be using) would be to upgrade to pfsense 2.1-BETA which is built upon FreeBSD 8.3
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So, will the PfSense upgrade using the link i get on the dashboard will also upgrade the OS to a higher version?
And does anybody know if there could be any kind of issues installing Hyper-V components on PfSense's FreeBSD (http://blog.chrisara.com.au/2012/08/hyper-v-integration-components-for_13.html)
It doesn't seem to be providing upgrade to the beta versions, though anyway even if it would i think i better wait until stable version is out. -
A pfSense firmware upgrade upgrades everything, OS world/kernel, binaires, code, and so on.
The "beta" is quite stable, we're just about ready to bump it to RC1
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Thanks for your answers
It's clear for me now)
