FreeBSD provides a text-based, easy to use installation
program. FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE and later use the installation
program known as bsdinstall(8) while
FreeBSD 8.X uses
sysinstall(8). This chapter describes how to use
sysinstall(8). The use of bsdinstall(8) is covered in
Chapter 2, Installing FreeBSD 9.X and
Later.
After reading this chapter, you will know:
How to create the FreeBSD installation media.
How FreeBSD refers to and subdivides hard disks.
How to start sysinstall(8).
The questions sysinstall(8) asks, what they mean, and how to answer them.
Before reading this chapter, you should:
Read the supported hardware list that shipped with the version of FreeBSD to install, and verify that the system's hardware is supported.
In general, these installation instructions are written for the i386™ and FreeBSD/amd64 architectures. Where applicable, instructions specific to other platforms will be listed. There may be minor differences between the installer and what is shown here. This chapter should be used as a general guide rather than a literal installation manual.
All FreeBSD documents are available for download at http://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/
Questions that are not answered by the
documentation may be
sent to <[email protected]>.
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