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#How to frebsd in easy to boot install#

Choose No when prompted if you want the machine to function as a network gateway.

Enter a computer name in the Host field.

The network configuration screen will open with your IP Address. Assuming you have a DHCP server (any corporate network or home with an internet connection and router has one). It will try to detect a server, but probably won’t find one, that is just fine. All my machines at home support IPv6 now since they are FreeBSD and Windows 7.

(Optional) You may want to say Yes to configure IPv6 these days.

Select you network card type and hit OK.

Choose Yes to configuring an Ethernet network device.

Wait for the installations to complete.

At the Choose Installation Media screen choose CD/DVD.

To get back to the Choose Distributions screen, either select Exit or OK.

src | All (Optional, if you plan on having the source so you can work on it an contribute some work back to FreeBSD.).

Optional – You don’t have to select these but I am selecting them.

Required – You must have the base system and a kernel. (Don’t worry, the Custom is not that hard) and select the following distributions:

For the Boot Manager choose Standard and hit OK.

At Sysinstall’s Main Menu, choose Standard.Insert the installation media and boot off it.

#How to frebsd in easy to boot install#

Step 2 – Install FreeBSD and include Xorg and KDE4 as additional install packages. Use your favorite burning software to burn the ISO to disk.Use gunzip on FreeBSD or 7zip on Windows. Extract it as it is compressed into a zip file.You are probably going to want i386 for a 32 bit computer or amd64 for a 64 bit computer. Connect a USB drive and read and write to it.To consider the desktop a success, the user should be able to do the following after installation: I realize that PC-BSD exists, but sometimes, you need only FreeBSD without PBIs and you want it to do it all yourself because that is why you came to FreeBSD in the first place to be an expert user and be able to set everything up yourself.