Free BSD Installation - Boot-able USB

[Ravi Raj]

Hi

I want to download & install Free BSD 11.2 (Full i.e. Administration &
Developer Edition) to my Laptop. As my Laptop has only USB drives,
please let me know which files to Download? If a download manager or
torrent is available, I would prefer that!

Also, please let me know the procedure for:

1) Making a Boot-able USB drive for installation.

2) Actual Installation.

Thanks

Ravi Raj

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[Matthew Seaman]

Post by Ravi Raj
I want to download & install Free BSD 11.2 (Full i.e. Administration &
Developer Edition) to my Laptop. As my Laptop has only USB drives,
please let me know which files to Download? If a download manager or
torrent is available, I would prefer that!

This is a question that is more appropriate for the freebsd-questions@ list.

Yes, FreeBSD by default contains all of the necessary ingredients to
rebuild the system from source code and to do the initial installation
and administration of a machine. Be aware that by default you will see
a command-line interface only: graphical adminstration tools exist, but
the graphical environment is not included in the install media. You can
set that up after the basic install though, but it does depend on
exactly what sort of laptop you have whether there is all the necessary
hardware support available to run the graphics.

To install from eg. a USB key, download the image here:


http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/11.2/FreeBSD-11.2-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img

and then follow the instructions here for writing that to a USB key:


https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall-pre.html#bsdinstall-usb

We experimented with providing official FreeBSD torrents a while back,
but I don't believe they are currently available. Best to download an
official image via HTTP or FTP.

Post by Ravi Raj
1) Making a Boot-able USB drive for installation.
2) Actual Installation.

The Handbook is your friend:


https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall.html

If you run into any problems, please ask via the
freebsd-***@freebsd.org list.

Cheers,

Matthew

[Ravi Raj]

Hi

In reference email communication below I am attaching screen-shot with
this email. I also shared the same using Drop Box link.

Thanks

Ravi Raj

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Hi Robert
I have sent you DropBox link to the Screen-shot, did you receive it?
Thanks
Ravi Raj
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Hallo Ravi,
I cannot see your screenshot.  Please send me the link to these files as
text; my mail agent is not capable of displaying attached images.
Most of the installation images only contain the base distribtion or
even less.  As far as I'm concerned, the only image with third party
software on it is the dvd1 image.
You can install all the third party software you want once the
installation is complete using the pkg(8) utility.
Yours,
Robert Clausecker

Hi Robert
I have identified the files to be downloaded, please refer to the
screen-shot below & verify whether they are correct?
One more question: Will these files install Free BSD + Third Party
Software's along with it?
Thanks
Ravi Raj
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Hello Ravi,
Use the memstick or mini-memstick image.  Kindly refer to the FreeBSD
         https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/bsdinstall.html
Yours,
Robert Clausecker
Hi
I want to download & install Free BSD 11.2 (Full i.e. Administration &
Developer Edition) to my Laptop. As my Laptop has only USB drives,
please let me know which files to Download? If a download manager or
torrent is available, I would prefer that!
1) Making a Boot-able USB drive for installation.
2) Actual Installation.
Thanks
Ravi Raj
[phone]
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