FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE is officially recommended for new installations.
If you perform a new installation, I do recommend the switch to pkgbase – before exiting the installer for the operating system.
The switch is not difficult, now – and will become easier with future releases.
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.
<https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1gsjbm5/installing_freebsd_with_pkgbase_november_2024/>
An ultra-condensed explanation:
a) install the OS
b) install the OS
– and the second installation negates the need for future use of freebsd-update.
Yes – pictured here – will give you the so-called chroot environment, in which you can complete the switch. There's a traditional command prompt.
<https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.2R/>
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.
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