The third BETA build of the 10.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures.
This is expected to be the final BETA release of the 10.1-RELEASE cycle.
The image checksums follow are included in the original announcement email.
Installer images and memory stick images are available here.
If you notice problems you can report them through the Bugzilla PR system or on the -stable mailing list.
If you would like to use SVN to do a source based update of an existing system, use the "stable/10" branch.
A list of changes since 10.0-RELEASE are available on the stable/10 release notes page.
Changes between 10.1-BETA2 and 10.1-BETA3 include:
- Support for serial and null console has been added to the UEFI boot loader.
- A potential panic triggered by referencing a device that has been renamed has been fixed in the cam(4) subsystem.
- OpenPAM has been updated to the Ourouparia (20140912) release.
- New sysctls have been added to vt(4) to enable or disable potentially dangerous key combinations (such as reboot, halt, and break to debugger).
- The mkimg(1) utility has been updated to allow creating empty partition entries.
- The GEOM_ELI class will now cache passphrases for disk decryption, which allows the system to boot after the first passphrase entry if the remaining disks on the system use the same passphrase.
- Support for controlling mfi(4) controller properties has been added to mfiutil(8).
- The /usr/lib32/compat shared library directory has been added to the default ld-elf32.so.1 path.
- Use of "no" for a Norwegian keymap file is now permitted in rc.conf(5).
- Several bug fixes to autofs(5) have been implemented.
The disk images are available in QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, and raw disk image formats. The image download size is approximately 135 MB, which decompress to a 20GB sparse image.
The partition layout is:
- 512k - freebsd-boot GPT partition type (bootfs GPT label)
- 1GB - freebsd-swap GPT partition type (swapfs GPT label)
- ~17GB - freebsd-ufs GPT partition type (rootfs GPT label)
# mkdir -p /dist
# mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 /dist
Next, install pkg(8) from the DVD:
# env REPOS_DIR=/dist/packages/repos pkg bootstrap
At this point, pkg-add(8) can be used to install additional packages from the DVD. Please note, the REPOS_DIR environment variable should be used each time using the DVD as the package repository, otherwise conflicts with packages from the upstream mirrors may occur when they are fetched. For example, to install Gnome and Xorg, run:
# env REPOS_DIR=/dist/packages/repos pkg install \
xorg-server xorg gnome2 [...]
The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of amd64 and i386 systems running earlier FreeBSD releases. Systems running earlier
FreeBSD releases can upgrade as follows:
# freebsd-update upgrade -r 10.1-BETA3
During this process, freebsd-update(8) may ask the user to help by merging some configuration files or by confirming that the automatically
performed merging was done correctly.
# freebsd-update install
The system must be rebooted with the newly installed kernel before continuing.
# shutdown -r now
After rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to install the new userland components:
# freebsd-update install
It is recommended to rebuild and install all applications if possible, especially if upgrading from an earlier FreeBSD release, for example,
FreeBSD 8.x. Alternatively, the user can install misc/compat9x and other compatibility libraries, afterwards the system must be rebooted
into the new userland:
# shutdown -r now
Finally, after rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to remove stale files:
# freebsd-update install
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