Note: As of December 2000, FreeBSD 4.2 has been released. There has been no time to update the tutorials but it is not that different to what is described here. Just translate over the numbering system. It is recommended you use the latest FreeBSD distribution.

Disclaimer

Note: Because of variations in install, multiple toolsets, (never knowing whether a previous install might have affected the next one); some/all(?) of the following information might be wrong; and there are probably better methods for doing the following. Keep this in mind and feel free to think a bit before blindly following the instructions. The following installation guides leave the systems with no open scannable ports for maximum security. It is assumed that users will enable the servers they require at a later date. (If you do install Xwindows at a later date, use of port 6000 by X can be disabled by adding the flag '-nolisten tcp' to the X server command line.)

BSD UNIX Installation Guides

• Installing FreeBSD 3.3 Minimum via Network/FTP (High Security Server Install) and Win95 - Dual Boot

• Installing FreeBSD 3.3 Minimum via local CD-ROM (High Security Server Install) and Win95 - Dual Boot

• Installing FreeBSD 3.3 Minimum via local DOS Hard-disk Partition (High Security Server Install) and Win95 - Dual Boot

• Installing FreeBSD 3.3 XWindows Setup via Network/FTP (High Security Server Install) and Win95 - Dual Boot

• Installing FreeBSD 3.3 XWindows Setup via local CD-ROM (High Security Server Install) and Win95 - Dual Boot

• FreeBSD (Gig distribution on a single DVD - 9Gig): http://www.freebsd-services.com/

BSD Hints

• Installing EGCS G77 Fortran 77 on FreeBSD 3.3

Other Things

• Mirroring the FreeBSD website: http://www.freebsd.org/internal/mirror.html
  http://www2.uk.freebsd.org/internal/mirror.html

• To mirror at the moment, this requires - CVSup - CVS-Optimized General-Purpose Network File Distribution System (FreeBSD web site uses this to allow mirroring)
  • CVSup uses the rsync algorithm but is a completely different program.
  • At http://www.polstra.com/projects/freeware/CVSup/
  • Needs modula 3 - http://www.polstra.com/projects/freeware/CVSup/

• FreeBSD UK Users Mailing list website: http://listserver.uk.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-users

• Above list uses Mailman software: http://www.list.org/

• FreeBSD links and notes
  • At http://cgi.viewport.force9.co.uk/freebsdnotes/
  • FreeBSD Rocks: http://www.freebsdrocks.com/
  • FreeBSD Diary: http://www.freebsddiary.org/
  • Why is Linux Successful? - An Opinion: http://www.freebsddiary.org/linux.php
  • FreeBSD - Starting stuff at boot time: http://www.freebsddiary.org/boot.php
  • BSD Advocacy in a Linux-centric Environment - Starting stuff at boot time: http://www.freebsddiary.org/bsdadvocacy.php
  • Changing the pre-login text - also known as /etc/issue: http://www.freebsddiary.org/prelogin.php