FreeBSD Installation Notes

[machinebacon]

This is of course not related to the BBQ, just some notes I wrote down for a smooth FreeBSD installation.

0) grab the ISO from http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/rele ... AGES/10.0/ or the memstick image:

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wget -c ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/i386/ISO-IMAGES/10.0/FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img

and dd it.

1) on your hard drive, create a free space of at least 5GB. Leave it unpartitioned.

2) boot into the FreeBSD stick and choose to install

3) use the manual/expert setting and choose to use a partition to install (not the whole disk)

4) you will get a partition on a device, like /dev/ada0 or so - that's what we want. We don't touch any other partitions. Please refer to http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO885 ... stall.html

4a) I recommend to create a user there and add it additionally to the 'wheel' group.

5) After installation, reboot into your (main) Linux system

6)

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sudo nano /etc/grub.d/40_custom

Add this snippet:

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menuentry "FreeBSD" {
    set root=(hd0,2)
    chainloader +1
}

where you need to modify the (hdX,Y) to what you have chosen in the installer. hd0 is the first drive, 2 is the second partition on it. In my case, it refers to what we would know as /dev/sda2

7)

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sudo update-grub

and your FreeBSD installation will be detected as unknown OS (or so) - no problem.

8) reboot, and choose the "FreeBSD" entry in grub

9) login as root with root password

9a) add your normal user to the sudoers file (visudo), if needed

10)

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man ports

is one of the first things you want to read :) Probably make yourself an alias, like:

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alias sport='cd /usr/ports && make search name='
alias iport='cd /usr/ports && make install'

or use 'whereis' ;)

11) for binary package installation, you need

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pkg search foo
pkg install foo

12) for a framebuffer terminal, install 'jfbterm'

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pkg install jfbterm

or install from ports

13) you probably want tmux, mpg123 and lynx or w3m (these are pretty light) Think twice if you want emacs-nox11, it takes up an enormous amount of space ;)

14) ... grow a fucking beard :D

[dkeg]

That's great, thank. I'm sure that will come in handy. Appreciate it.

[bones]

Ha! The BSD invasion of the grill begins! Just yesterday I was thinking of writing an OpenBSD HOWTO/Notes for the grill, but wasn't sure it would be welcome/wanted/appropriate. Now I think it is fair game. ;)

Good one, bacon!

[RandomCharacter]

Excellent! I had been wondering how to do this, and your guide seems to be crystal clear. Thanks.

Tim

[machinebacon]

^ The epic beard you have already :D

The installation and system maintenance is pretty straight-forward, there's excellent documentation online, and FreeBSD works OOTB much better than Debian's kfreebsd (which ws painfully slow to set up and install, and which later - thanks to DFSG - refused to accept my eth card)

Time to roast some BSD flavored remaster ;)

[ChefIronBelly]

Thanks for the guide installing now.

[GekkoP]

Very nice. I went with OpenBSD a while ago but I had to dig deeper in BSD-land sooner or later.

[ivanovnegro]

Crazy.

Ha! The BSD invasion of the grill begins! Just yesterday I was thinking of writing an OpenBSD HOWTO/Notes for the grill, but wasn't sure it would be welcome/wanted/appropriate. Now I think it is fair game. ;)

Yes, you can.

[franksinistra]

love this , thanks!
would welcome desktop guide to dragonflybsd or openbsd as i can never reach X with both bsd derivative

[bones]

would welcome desktop guide to dragonflybsd or openbsd as i can never reach X with both bsd derivative

I will have one for OpenBSD, but it will be a few days... gotta get through the work week first.