Manual Upgrade to Version 9.10.2-U1

[dkusek]

I have been looking though the manual for 9.10.2-U1 and there is a section that references the manual update being a possibility again; http://doc.freenas.org/9.10/system.html#manual-updates, Section 5.8.5.

After looking through the download pages on the freenas website, https://download.freenas.org/9.10/STABLE/9.10.2-U1/, all I see here is a .tar file. A previous point in the documentation, http://doc.freenas.org/9.10/install.html#upgrading, Section 2.1 claims that there should be a ".GUI_Upgrade.txz: this is a compressed firmware upgrade image."

Is this an error or is this file named something else?

I have tried the .tar file (https://download.freenas.org/9.10/STABLE/9.10.2-U1/) and the .debug.txz file (https://download.freenas.org/9.10/STABLE/9.10.2-U1/x64/) along with their respective checksums with no success. It seems that when I do so, I get the console message:
"Jan 16 14:01:42 freenas notifier: rm: /var/tmp/firmware: Device busy"

I have tried to remove and unmount that device manually and have not been successful.

Has anyone been able to perform the manual upgrade from 9.3.1 to 9.10.2-U1?

Thank you!

 

[m0nkey_]

The manual update file hasn't been provided for a while since the new update mechanism came along. I've opened a bug ticket to see if the documentation is out of date or if the update files are just not being provided: https://bugs.freenas.org/issues/20320

If you want to perform a manual upgrade, apply it by booting from the ISO installer and select 'upgrade' when prompted.

 

[dlavigne]

The doc team added back (a reworded version of) http://doc.freenas.org/9.10/system.html#manual-updates when the button was readded to the GUI. According to https://bugs.freenas.org/issues/20320#note-2, the tar file is the correct one. Please try it again and, if it fails, leave a comment on that ticket about the exact error message.

 

[dkusek]

I will do so. Thank you for your timely responses. I appreciate it.

-Devin