FreeBSD Install

• FreeBSD
• FreeBSD Ports

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 Depending on your install, you may already have a ports tree, but it will be outdated at this point.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