FreeBSD 5.0 Hard Drive Installation Guide

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FreeBSD is a very good UNIX, I used it for nearly two years, here are some of my installation experience for beginners to refer to.

The acquisition of FreeBSD installation disk

You can go to FreeBSD's official website as well as its mirror image website to download, recommended download optical mirror, suffix name is ISO, after downloading conditional can be carved into a direct boot disk (in Nero, choose to be made from the optical disc mirror, rather than directly to the uncompressed ISO folder dragged in, In this case, the CD can not be started directly, the Web site below has dozens of mirror, using FlashGet settings to replace the URL function download is very fast

Http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html

Second, hard disk installation

If you are unable to start the disk for a variety of reasons (or ...), then only prepare three clean floppy disks, one for writing KERN.FLP, the second for writing MFSROOT.FLP, and the third for writing DRIVERS.FLP (used to load various drivers).

Extract the FreeBSD to the WIN98 or Win2K system (the primary partition must be FAT) primary, and the folder name must be FreeBSD.

There is at least 1.5G of space left on the hard drive

c:\freebsd\tools\fdimage c:\freebsd\floppies\kern.flp a: // 制作启动盘By analogy, MFSROOT.FLP,DRIVERS.FLP.

Set BIOS, boot sequence for floppy

Insert KERN.FLP Floppy disk

Insert MFSROOT.FLP Floppy disk

Select Load Driver

Insert DRIVERS.FLP Floppy disk

Select Msdos

Select Stard

Remove the selected hard drive space and press D

Then press C, fill in the pre-use hard disk space, recommend the use of "1500m" format, the same type

Select Bootmanager

A option is not recommended (advanced user use)

Highlight/var, press D.

Highlight/tmp, press D

Highlight/var, press D.

Press C, set/var, space as much as possible

Set the space size of the/tmp,/var as needed

Select the installation type as needed.

When Setup is complete, set up

In the xfree86cfg, the system will prompt you to configure is not successful, whether at the time of configuration, select No, most cases your configuration is successful, continue to choose Desktop, recommend you in Pacage KDE choice, kdebase, and other packages, Do not choose KDE because, as I have tested it many times, the package is the culprit that caused the KDE crash. Then write ". Xinitrc" to write

exec startkde

Then execute on the command line:startx

Enjoy FreeBSD!