Installing FreeBSD made easy

Download ISO

Create new VM

• Allocate at least 512MB RAM Allocate at least 4 GB Harddisk Allocate at least 12MB Video RAM Set Hardware Clock to UTC option Disable Audio Disable Floppy Boot

Load ISO to boot from

Start VM

Boot Default from Menu

Select Country

Select Keymap

Select (S)tandard Install

On the FDISK Screen press: a Then: q

Select non-interactive Boot Manager

Disklabel Editor

The most interesting and tricky part of the setup.

If you want to play around with FreeBSD it is safe to Press: a

This will do the following layout on a 4GB Disk (512M RAM):

ad0s1a /    563M
ad0s1b swap 153M
ad0s1d /var 870M
ad0s1e /tmp 217M
ad0s1f /usr 2292M

This is what it looks like on a 8GB Disk (512M RAM):

ad0s1a /    716M
ad0s1b swap 429M
ad0s1d /var 1945M
ad0s1e /tmp 486M
ad0s1f /usr 4614M

This is what it looks like on a 8GB Disk (1G RAM):

ad0s1a /    691M
ad0s1b swap 783M
ad0s1d /var 1766M
ad0s1e /tmp 441M
ad0s1f /usr 4510M

In my personal experience this is not an optimal layout. To play around no problem but for serious servers a big no go.

Defining Disk Layout

What server do I want to Install?

* Database * Web * File * Malware * Log

In each scenario you should be aware that different directories grow differently in sizes.

Pro & Contra of this setup

Potentially more flexible. Better for restoration. Better for Management.

But what about just making this layout:

ad0s1a /    4.5G
ad0s1b swap 512M

For the sake of this exercise we do a Kern-Developer Install (Gives us all the goodies we need and can be extended easily afterwards)

• Would you like to configure any Ethernet network devices?

Sure

• IPv6 AutoConf?

Naj

• DHCP?

For real!

• Hostname! (reverse DNS #foo)

  DomainName (.lan/.local) Gateway?

You nuts?

• inetd?

get a life!

• SSH?

yep

• Anonymous FTP?

pr0n?

• NFS Server?

nope

• NFS Client?

Njet!

• Console Settings Customizations?

Better not.

• TimeZone?

Yeah (UTC)

• TZ?

Depends where you at. Europe/Luxembourg for us.

• Mouse?

Cmon' you a n00b

• FreeBSD Package Collection?

No, we have ports.

• Add additional User?

Yes. (add group for $LUSER) Put $LUSER into wheel

Reboot. (eject Media)