FreeBSD Installation Details

FreeBSD: http://mirrors.163.com/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-amd64/8.3/FreeBSD-8.3-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso with thunder download can,
Virtual Machine hard disk is set to 20 GB, memory 512 MB, the partition is as follows:
/2048 M
Swap 1024 M
/Usr 17401 M
The Installation Process of freeBSD is described below at www.2cto.com:
1. Select Start Mode

The options are:
1. Start FreeBSD directly [Default]
2. Enable FreeBSD by disabling power management,
3. Start FreeBSD in Safe Mode
4. Start FreeBSD in single-user mode
5. More details are output when FreeBSD is started.
6. Enter the command prompt status
7. Restart
Generally, press enter to start it by default.
If a hardware error cannot be started, you can disable power management.
In security mode, more hardware features (including power management) are disabled ).
The single-user mode is generally used to restart an update or forget the root user password.
The fifth mode can output more detailed information at startup to help you identify some potential problems.
The sixth mode can be used when the self-compiled kernel cannot be started and you want to switch to the old kernel.
2. Select a country:


Use the arrow keys to select the desired country. China is recommended for installation,
3. Select keyboard ing:
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Select the default one.
4. Go to the installation menu:

Select the default Standard mode for installation.
5. Prompt message:

This option can be ignored for modern hard disks.
6. Hard Disk partitioning:
If you have other systems or data on your hard disk, back up the data. In this example, all the hard disk space is used. Press A and Q.
Select A to use the entire hard disk. Then press Q to exit
Step 7: Let me select the method for installing the Boot manager in the Boot manager system. We select the first option, that is, the standard method (no interaction is required). This is the default recommended method, among the other items, the second item "BootMgr" indicates the system to which you can choose to enter if there are other operating systems in your system, the third item "None" indicates that the existing boot manager is retained.
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8. Skip the prompt.

9. Create a freeBSD Partition
1) In, select C and enter 2048 M.

2) When selecting/partition file type, we select FS type, as shown in:

3) for the mount point, select/, as shown in:

4) Next, divide the swap partition. If the memory is smaller than 4 GB, swap is recommended to be 1.5-2 times of the memory. If the memory is greater than 4 GB, swap can be as many as the memory, in this example, the memory is 512 M, so swap is divided into 1024 M. The division process is as follows:


All hard disk space is divided into the/usr directory in the following steps. Shows the freeBSD partition in this example:

10. Select the installation media, as shown in:

11. At this time, the system will prompt you to format and install the system immediately, and whether to choose to continue. This is the last chance to change. We will select YES, as shown in

12. The system will ask if you need to configure the ethernet card. We will select YES. As shown in:
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13. In the following process, freeBSD8.3 configures the NIC (em0 by default) for us, as shown in:

14. If the system asks if IPV6 is enabled, choose NO, as shown in:

15. The system will continue to ask if we need to use the DHCP server to automatically allocate IP addresses. Here we want to configure it ourselves and select NO, as shown in

16. Enter the specific Nic configuration, as shown in

17. The system will prompt you whether to enable the em0 Nic immediately. Select YES, as shown in:

18. The system prompts whether to use this machine as a gateway and select No, as shown in:

19. If you need to configure inetd and other network services, select No, as shown in:

20. The system asks if you need to log on via SSH. That is, enable openssh. If it is enabled, the system opens port 22 to allow secure logon to the system. Select YES, as shown in.

21. The system asks if anonymous FTP users are allowed to access the machine and select NO, as shown in

22. If you want to Configure NFS server or client recently, select NO, as shown in:

23. The system determines whether to define terminal configurations, such as font size and moving speed of the cursor, depending on the specific environment, as shown in:

24. Ask if you want to set the system time zone and select YES, as shown in:

25. Do you need to define the system's GMOS clock in UTC format? Select NO, as shown in

26. Select the region. Here, select Asia, as shown in:

26. Select the region. Here, select Asia, as shown in:

28. Select the time zone. Beijing time is the first item, as shown in:

29. Do you want to use the Chinese National Standard Time (CST)? Select YES, as shown in

30. whether to use the mouse in the console. Select No here, as shown in:

31. Do you want to browse FreeBSD's software set?

32. Select YES if you want to add a new user, as shown in:

33. user and group management interface

34. Add users. Here we add a user in the wheel group, which enables you to switch to the Root permission through the su command for necessary system management. The wheel group is the root system group. As shown in:

35. Exit user management, as shown in:

36. Set the root password, as shown in:


37. The system asked if you still need to check or change the configuration. This is the last chance to change the configuration. Select NO here, as shown in www.2cto.com.

38. Do not hesitate to select [X Exit Install]. We will end the installation! (Now I can breathe a sigh of relief)

Last step, restart