# FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE Installation Instructions

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> This article gives some brief instructions on installing FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE and upgrading the systems running earlier releases.

## 1 Installing FreeBSD

For instructions on installing FreeBSD, please see Chapter 2 of The FreeBSD Handbook. It provides a complete installation walk-through for users new to FreeBSD, and can be found online at: http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html

## 2 Upgrading FreeBSD

### 2.1 Upgrading from Source

The procedure for doing a source code based update is described in http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/synching.html and http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook//makeworld.html.

The branch tag to use for updating the source is `RELENG_8_3` for CVS. For SVN use `releng/8.3`.

### 2.2 Upgrading Using “FreeBSD Update”

The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of i386 and amd64 systems running earlier FreeBSD releases. Systems running `7.[01234]-RELEASE`, `8.[012]-RELEASE`, `8.3-BETA1`, or `8.3-RC[12]` can upgrade as follows:

    # freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.3-RELEASE

During this process, FreeBSD Update 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(8) needs to be run again to install the new userland components:

    # freebsd-update install

At this point, users of systems being upgraded from FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE or earlier will be prompted by freebsd-update to rebuild all third-party applications (e.g., ports installed from the ports tree) due to updates in system libraries.

After updating installed third-party applications (and again, only if freebsd-update(8) printed a message indicating that this was necessary), run freebsd-update(8) again so that it can delete the old (no longer used) system libraries:

    # freebsd-update install

Finally, reboot into 8.3-RELEASE

    # shutdown -r now

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