FreeBSD 13

Raymond_Sickler · February 10, 2021, 2:18pm

Will Nomad be ready for Freebsd 13 in March? And will we able to upgrade with octopkg?

mk1 · February 10, 2021, 4:45pm

we will release NomadBSD 1.4 this week (I hope) which is base on FreeBSD 12.2-p3, so March is a bit too early for us. But we will switch to 13 as soon as possible.

Regarding your second question: If you installed NomadBSD to a HDD you can upgrade it like any other FreeBSD installation via freebsd-update, followed by pkg upgrade -f. Note, however, that some of the NomadBSD tools won’t run anymore after the upgrade due to the ABI change.

Raymond_Sickler · February 10, 2021, 5:45pm

That didn’t work. Must be upgrade from source. Will I have to re-install my system to get 12.2 p3?

mk1 · February 10, 2021, 6:19pm

If you want NomadBSD 1.4, you will have to reinstall it as we don’t have an upgrade system. But the FreeBSD base system can be upgraded via:

% sudo freebsd-update fetch
% sudo freebsd-update install

Raymond_Sickler · February 10, 2021, 11:23pm

That doesn’t work. I get a list of packages that will be upgraged and then the word end in the terminal. Are there any switches to include?

Raymond_Sickler · February 11, 2021, 12:09am

Thats ok… I went back to GhostBSD. Keep trying though. You’ll figure it out.

ludensen · February 11, 2021, 3:15pm

You just have to press “q” to continue - it’s just a scroll-able list
and you’ll have to do it more than once.

That’s standard FreeBSD procedure - NOT anything the NomadBSD guys have gotten wrong… (they are very friendly and capable as you already have found out )

[friendly teasing] Hopefully you will figure it out (by trying again) [/friendly teasing]

lme · February 12, 2021, 8:27pm

Thank you for you nice words, @ludensen.

ludensen · February 14, 2021, 1:54pm

@lme
You are welcome
In my short time on this forum, I have read your very knowledgeable, kind and patient answers to not so kindly formulated questions (not thinking of this one, @Raymond_Sickler )
Sir, you have my respect! I would propably have “vented” trying to answer some of those, but you guys didn’t

Donald · February 22, 2021, 5:05pm

I find this topic very interesting because I have never been able to get my video, mouse, or sound to work with any of the GhostBSD iso’s and I have tried them all. NomadBSD boots and runs perfectly on my system out of the box. My system: Dell XPS 8100 with an i7 processor and 8 Gigs of memory, ATI video 6700, and HDMI sound.

Raymond, be aware there are some major changes in FreeBSD-RELEASE-13. As I understand it, GhostBSD is having some issues with it. I expect NomadBSD to also have issues to over-come with 13.

PC-BSD and Solaris 10 are wonderful operating systems and I used them both until their EOL. I will continue using NomadBSD as my daily driver because it works well on my system and I hope GhostBSD continues to work well on your computer.

Best wishes,
Donald

Raymond_Sickler · February 22, 2021, 7:50pm

I don’t have ghostbsd. I have nomad installed on my hard drive.

o428tmp · February 24, 2021, 12:40pm

I have upgraded (my self build/compiled) Nomad-12.1 to 12.2, with “freebsd-update upgrade -r 12.2-RELEASE”, succesfully.
Note that this may require up to 500 MB of space in workdir.

Raymond_Sickler · February 24, 2021, 2:54pm

You could of done it with freebsd-update fetch install. Freebsd 12.2-p4 is out.

o428tmp · February 25, 2021, 10:09am

No. With “fetch” you get all available binary updates (based on the currently installed world) to update, lets say, from 12.2-p3 to 12.2-p4.
With “upgrade” you get the necessary files for upgrading to a new and supported release. E. g. from 12.1 to 12.2.

Raymond_Sickler · February 25, 2021, 2:05pm

It is freebsd-update fetch install. You can use the same

mk1 · February 25, 2021, 2:27pm

This is just the a shorter form for

freebsd-update fetch
freebsd-update install

The latter, however, allows you to first check what would be changed, before you decide to install the patches.

Raymond_Sickler · February 25, 2021, 9:46pm

One line “freebsd-update fetch istall”

ludensen · February 25, 2021, 10:33pm

Why prefer only the necessary updates and not all updates?
-do they break something?

and welcome on the forum judging by the self-compiled Nomad install, you’re not that new to FreeBSD… though you are taking the wording in the man-page quite literally

[Edit]
My take:
In this day and age good IT-security means keeping all SW upto-date!

o428tmp · February 26, 2021, 9:30am

I wrote necessary files and not, necessary updates only.
I have done upgrade and updates. That means, I did “upgrade -r 12.2-RELEASE”, with everything that goes with it, rebooted and then I did “fetch/install” (according to FreeBSD security advisories/errata notices).
:~ # freebsd-version -ukr
12.2-RELEASE-p4
12.2-RELEASE-p4
12.2-RELEASE-p4

mario · March 1, 2021, 1:50pm

kudos for bothering with ‘friendly’ teasing. my opinion is that the poster didn’t merit any friendliness.