Insert FreeBSD CD #1 in the CD drive and turn on the computer.
You may need to go into the computer's system configuration and enable the CD drive as a boot device, or change the boot order so that the computer boots to the CD first.
If your computer cannot boot from the CD drive, follow the instructions listed in the FreeBSD Installation Instructions for creating boot floppies.
If you are using a USB keyboard, choose the 'Boot FreeBSD with USB keyboard' option at the boot menu. (If you don't, your system will be non-responsive. Trust me...)
Note: If you are installing FreeBSD 5.x with a USB keyboard, choose the 'Escape to loader prompt' option at the boot menu, then enter the following commands:
OK set hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x1"OK boot
If you wish to set up two hard drives as a RAID-1 mirroring drive system, perform the following:
From the main menu, choose 'Fixit' to get a shell prompt.
Determine which devices are your hard drives:
# atacontrol list
You should see something similar to:...
ATA channel 2:
Master: ad4
...
ATA channel 4:
Master: ad8
...
In this example, the two drives which will be mirrored are ad4 and ad8.
Create the mirror array:
# atacontrol create RAID1 ad4 ad8
After the array has been created, you can check the status using atacontrol:
# atacontrol status ar0
The response should be:
ar0: ATA RAID1 subdisks: ad4 ad8 status: READY
To return to the Main Menu, enter:
# exit
At the main menu, choose 'Exit Install' to reboot the computer. After the computer reboots, the array device ar0 will be available for installing FreeBSD.
From the main menu, choose the 'Standard' installation.
In the FDISK Partition Editor, choose 'A' to use the entire disk. Choose 'S' to make this partition the boot partition. Press 'Q' to continue.
At the "Install Boot Manager" prompt, choose the appropriate boot manager. This procedure assumes that FreeBSD is the only operating system, so choose the 'Standard' master boot record.
In the Disklabel Editor, create the following partitions: ar0s1a / 512MB as UFS2
ar0s1b swap 2048MB as swap (4x system RAM)
ar0s1d /var 4096MB as UFS2 + Softupdates
ar0s1e /usr remaining as UFS2 + Softupdates
Choose 'Q' to continue.
Choose Distributions:
Developer
Ports
Custom Distributions: Games
Choose 'OK' to go to next menu.
Choose installation media. In this case CD/DVD.
At the 'Last Chance' warning, choose "YES."
(At this point the System will install...)
You will be prompted for several miscellaneous configuration options:
Ethernet device 'bge0':
IPv6 Config: No
DHCP: No
Host: machine_name.your_domain.tld
Domain: your_domain.tld
IP Address: 10.70.153.1
Warning: If your network card is not included in the generic kernel, do not bring up the interface!
Gateway: No
inetd: Yes
ssh: Yes (there is some follow-up in Post-Install Cleanup)
Anonymous FTP: No
NFS Server: No
NFS Client: No
Customize console: Fast repeat rate
Time Zone: Local, not GMT. (set to your time zone)
Linux Binary support: No
Mouse Configuration: No (or set to your mouse, if you're using one)
Packages: No
Additional users: No (Add users after Post-Install Cleanup)
Set 'root' password: ******
Exit install.
(System reboots...)
