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Installing FreeBSD |
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Sunday Feb 17 5:10:38 2019 |
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Several years ago I tried installing some variant of BSD (do not |
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remember which one) without any success. I only remember you had to |
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prepare something called slices (ie. partitions on your hard disk) |
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and the whole thing was not easy to do, not for a newbie at least. |
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Over the years and after using other unix-like operating systems I |
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was well ready to try the installation again. Oh man, much to my |
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surprise it was so, so easy that I still cannot believe it myself. |
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The current version is 12 and even though I had to repeat the steps |
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couple of times since I didn't exactly know what the installer trie |
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to accomplish in certain steps, the process was easy as 1,2,3. |
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Unlike my first time years ago, this time I chose installing to the |
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entire hard drive so I didn't have to worry about partitions (I do |
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not even know whether the system still calls them slices or not). |
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The downside of such an easy and quick installation is that you end |
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up with a truly barebones system, no graphical environment, very |
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little software installed. Well, I guess that a newbie can feel |
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lost in such an scenario. Imagine that the first program I had to |
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install was "pkg" the package manager. Oh my... |
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After that, almost everything was downhill. I had to get used to so |
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applications I had hardly ever used like the csh and urxvt (I knew |
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about urxvt but never it used extensively). |
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Then after installing x-org, i3, mc, elinks, screen I could use |
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FreeBSD like a pro. Until I discovered that dillo was compiled |
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without --enable-ssl. I tried hard to install it from the ports |
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enabling ssl but to no avail. So I made the switch to surf (from |
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the suckless project) and now I can really be happy with my new |
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system. |
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p.s. From the top of my head I also installed mplayer for multimedi |
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stuff. |
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