Success ! Beastie is now running 15.0-RELEASE. Admittedly I did have one little hiccup at the stage where it says to upgrade all ports and as I thought I dont have as i'm using binary packages I ignored and continued which then gave me an error for doas ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libutil.so.9" not found, required by "doas" . After a wee panic aka squeaky bum time I found the answer which was to run as root pkg bootstrap -f and then pkg upgrade. After that everything rebooted nicely. Now I'm left with my Bastille jails which I need to read a little more on as I really don't want to stuff them up. So this might wait until tomorrow ??? #FreeBSD