FreeNAS 11 Upgrade...?!

[Abbot Yuri]

I went through the wiki and found the instructions for upgrading through the GUI in Chrome. Did so. I downloaded FreeNAS-11.0-RELEASE.debug.txz since it was being advertised on the site. I also the the SHA file to go with it. Did the manual update and uploaded the .txz and waited patiently and nervously. Watched the terminal and it did all the database stuff, restarted, the boot list was still listing 9.10. I waited patiently and it restarted again and booted back into 9.10 stable. I wanted 11. Did I do something way wrong? I followed the instruction, backed up the database, downloaded the most recent txz and uploaded it to the server through the GUI.

HELP! It plain old didn't work. Or do I have to do it again?

 

[dlavigne]

Post a screenshot of your System -> Boot. Also, what are the system's hardware specs?

 

[danb35]

I went through the wiki

What wiki?

If you're running 9.10, in your web GUI, go to System -> Update, set the train to 11-STABLE, and click Check Now. In the window that pops up, make sure "apply updates after downloading" is checked, then click OK.

Edit: See http://doc.freenas.org/11/system.html#update

 

[Abbot Yuri]

System Boot:

System Specs:

 

[Abbot Yuri]

Alright. I'm following your instructions, danb35. And I went through section 2 instead of section 5 of the manual. Thanks, danb35. :) I just hope it works this time. LOL

 

[Abbot Yuri]

YAY! It finally took. 11.0 STABLE. Whee! Now if only I could get another issue taken care of. I'll have to start a new thread for that, though. Thanks, again, guys. :)

 

[danb35]

Glad it's working. Though I'm still curious, what wiki? I thought the FreeNAS wiki was dead (again).

 

[Chicken76]

I can attest to a similar behavior.
I had 9.10.2-U5 installed, went to System -> Update -> Manual update and supplied it this file: FreeNAS-11.0-U1.iso
After the update I ended up with 9.10.2-U6. How is this possible? I didn't even have the -U6 iso downloaded, so there's no way I could have misclicked on a different file.

 

[danb35]

I had 9.10.2-U5 installed, went to System -> Update -> Manual update and supplied it this file: FreeNAS-11.0-U1.iso

Why? See the manual:

Manual update files can be identified by their filenames, which end in -manual-update-unsigned.tar.

Manual updates cannot be used to upgrade from older major versions.

Nothing tells you that the .iso is suitable to use for the Manual update.

 

[Chicken76]

Why? See the manual:

Nothing tells you that the .iso is suitable to use for the Manual update.

I see. So the only way to upgrade from a previous major version is to boot from the ISO, right?

 

[danb35]

I see. So the only way to upgrade from a previous major version is to boot from the ISO, right?

No.

If you're running 9.10, in your web GUI, go to System -> Update, set the train to 11-STABLE, and click Check Now. In the window that pops up, make sure "apply updates after downloading" is checked, then click OK.

Edit: See http://doc.freenas.org/11/system.html#update

 

[Chicken76]

No.

You truly are a FreeNAS Wizard as your status says. Thank you again.