Building the New Kernel

You need to do one more thing before you reboot the system: You need to build a new kernel to go along with the FreeBSD update you just installed. Kernel building was covered in the previous hour, so we are not going to go over it again here. If you need instructions for building a new kernel, see Hour 10, “The FreeBSD Kernel and the Device Tree.”

After you have finished building the new kernel, you can reboot your system with shutdown –r now. This should bring the system back up into multiuser mode running a newly updated version of FreeBSD.

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