Operating System Notes

Beginning the Install

Boot off a FreeBSD cd and choose standard installation.  You will be asked questions, here are my suggested answers.

Drive Setup

Drive	Size	Use
ad4	10G	Operating System
ad5	100G	Raid Stripe 1
ad6	100G	Raid Stripe 2
ad7	100G	Raid Stripe 3

OS File System Setup

File System	Mount	Size
ad4s1a	/	256M
swap	swap	1024M
ad4s1e	/var	64M
ad4s1f	/tmp	64M
ad4s1g	/usr	remaining

Distributions

Kern-Developer, with ports (choose User, with ports if you already have a kernel compiled)

Network Interfaces

xl0 - Local Area Network (Internal):

hostname	digitalpimp
domain	princenet
gateway
name server	127.0.0.1
IPv4 Address	192.168.17.100

 

Act as a network gateway (relay's packets between interfaces): Yes

Personal Preferences

Answer no to all other questions (or pick you own preferences, but many will be set during the restore of rc.conf)

Packages

Install the following packages when the setup program asks.  If they dont exist in the package list, be sure to install them using the ports collection after the installation is complete.

bash, pdksh, cvsup_without_gui, ispell, unix2dos, mkisofs, buffer

Install User Accounts

bpfountz	<password>	/home/bpfountz	/usr/local/bin/ksh
BinsFriend	<password>	/home/nonexistant	/sbin/nologin

The user BinsFriend is given a bad shell (/sbin/nologin) to deny them the ability to log on to the machine.  This type of user account is useful for users who will only be using the server for network services like samba, nfs, or ftp.

Set the root password.

Installation Complete

Exit the installer and reboot.