Graham Perrin<p>FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE is officially recommended for new installations. </p><p>If you perform a new installation, I do recommend the switch to pkgbase – before exiting the installer for the operating system. </p><p>The switch is not difficult, now – and will become easier with future releases. </p><p>Your emphasis should be to minimise the traditional steps – in particular, do not rush to add a user. Things such as addition are, instead, easily performed after first boot of the installed system. </p><p>&lt;<a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1gsjbm5/installing_freebsd_with_pkgbase_november_2024/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comme</span><span class="invisible">nts/1gsjbm5/installing_freebsd_with_pkgbase_november_2024/</span></a>&gt;</p><p>An ultra-condensed explanation: </p><p>a) install the OS <br>b) install the OS </p><p>– and the second installation negates the need for future use of freebsd-update. </p><p>Yes – pictured here – will give you the so-called chroot environment, in which you can complete the switch. There's a traditional command prompt. </p><p>&lt;<a href="https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.2R/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">freebsd.org/releases/14.2R/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>&gt;</p><p>Packaging of the OS became official more than a year ago; packages are maintained by the Primary Release Engineering Team; freebsd-update is an axe candidate for 15.0; and so on. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/packages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>packages</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/pkg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pkg</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/install" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>install</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/installation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>installation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/installer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>installer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/switch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>switch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/pkgbase" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pkgbase</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/announce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>announce</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/release" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>release</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/axe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>axe</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/freebsdupdate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freebsdupdate</span></a></p>