This page is a cheat sheet for installing a default configuration of FreeBSD. After you have burned the download to a DVD drive then boot from that DVD. These steps will quickly get your FreeBSD system to the point where it has the O/S installed and configured enough so that you can securely SSH into it to finish building and configuring the host. Ethernet Configuration: IPv4 DHCP - Select option 1, boot FreeBSD default.
- Sysinstall: Standard installation.
- Drives: Choose a drive to install to. The list might look something like this:
ad10
ad4
ad6
ad8 - FDISK Partition Editor:
A = Use entire disk. S = Set bootable. Q = Finish. - Boot Manager: S = Standard MBR.
- FreeBSD Disk Partitions (FreeBSD Disklabel Editor):
A = Auto defaults. This command may produce a partition layout that looks like the table below. - Distribution: All (all system sources and binaries).
- Ports Collection: Yes.
- Install Media: CD/DVD.
- Done: OK.
- Configure Ethernet: Yes. The devices capable of running the Ethernet protocol will be displayed, and may look similar to the following:
re0 RealTek 8139C/8169/8169S/8110S PCI Ethernet Card
sis0 SiS 900/SiS 7016 PCI Ethernet Card
fwe0 FireWire Ethernet Emulator
fwip0 IP over FireWire
plip0 Parallel Port IP (PLIP) peer connection - Try IPv6 configuration of the interface? No
- Try DHCP configuration of the interface? Yes
Host: <host-name> Domain: <your-domain-name>
IPv4 Gateway: 10.11.12.1 Name Server: 10.12.12.12
re0 Configuration: IPv4 Address: 10.11.12.107/204
- Should this machine be a network gateway? No
- Configure inetd and associated services? No
- Enable ssh login? Yes
- Allow anonymous FTP? No
- Configure as NFS server? No
- Configure as NFS client? No
- Customize system console settings? No
- Set time zone? Yes
- PS/2, serial, or bus mouse? No
- Browse the ports collection? No
- Add a user? Yes
- Set admin password? Yes
- Change any more options? No
- X = Exit Install.
Part. | Mount | Size (MB)
| Newfs | Part
| ad4s1a | /
| 512 | UFS2 | Y | ad4s1b | swap | 4096 | SWAP | | ad4s1c | /var | 8939 | UFS2+S | Y | ad4s1d | /tmp | 512 | UFS2+S | Y | ad4s1e | /usr | 176 | UFS2+s | Y |
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