Right after installation, you can login as root. Your default shell will be csh.
Before moving on, setup SSH so you can login as root remotely:
sed -ie 's/#PermitRootLogin no/PermitRootLogin yes/g' /etc/ssh/sshd_config /etc/rc.d/sshd restart
Update the kernel and userspace, and then reboot the machine:
freebsd-update fetch freebsd-update install
Before installing any packages, let's bring the ports tree up to date. Depending on your install, you may already have a ports tree, but it will be outdated at this point.
Fetch the latest ports snapshot and update the tree:
portsnap fetch portsnap extract > /dev/null
Before building any ports from source, update the configuration for all builds:
echo BATCH=yes >> /etc/make.conf echo WITHOUT_TEST=yes >> /etc/make.conf echo WITHOUT_X11=yes >> /etc/make.conf
cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Denver /etc/localtime echo ntpdate_enable=YES >> /etc/rc.conf /etc/rc.d/ntpdate start
Now that the base install is finished, let's move into the basic utilities.
Load linux modules:
kldload linux kldload linux64
Enable auto load of modules in /etc/rc.conf:
kld_list="linux linux64" linux_enable="YES"
Add to /etc/fstab:
procfs /proc procfs rw 0 0 linprocfs /compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0 0
Install htop:
pkg install htop