{"id":4943,"date":"2023-10-18T15:18:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T07:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/?p=4943"},"modified":"2023-10-18T18:41:57","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T10:41:57","slug":"installing-freebsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/installing-freebsd\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing FreeBSD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" data-attachment-id=\"4944\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/installing-freebsd\/installing-freebsd\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Installing-FreeBSD.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,750\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.78&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 14 Pro&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1697194961&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6.86&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.03030303030303&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Installing-FreeBSD\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Installing-FreeBSD-300x225.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Installing-FreeBSD.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Installing-FreeBSD.jpeg\" alt=\"Installing FreeBSD\" class=\"wp-image-4944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Installing-FreeBSD.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Installing-FreeBSD-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Installing-FreeBSD-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the biggest hurdles I always had to learning and installing FreeBSD or Linux was getting it installed. Though it&#8217;s much easier nowadays. As a reference point, the last time I installed and used Linux as my main operating system was back in 2006 with Ubuntu 6.06. Many things have changed since then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This time I felt more confident as I was armed with the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.freebsd.org\/en\/books\/handbook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">famed FreeBSD handbook<\/a> to guide me. If you&#8217;re looking to get started with FreeBSD, I&#8217;d suggest you go through it and get an idea of things. It&#8217;s a great resource to use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the images below are sourced from the handbook, since it&#8217;s a lot prettier than the photo I took of my computer screen, and the file size is a lot smaller.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"simpletoc-title\">Table of Contents<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"simpletoc-list\">\n<li><a href=\"#hardware\">Hardware<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#installation-media\">Installation media<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#installing-freebsd\">Installing FreeBSD<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#conclusion\">Conclusion<\/a>\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"hardware\">Hardware<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>My choices of installation destinations were the spare Dell laptop, an old Dell desktop, and a virtual machine. While a virtual machine would be easier and safer to get started with, I felt it&#8217;d probably just be more fun to use the desktop, as eventually, I&#8217;d want to build a NAS. So, a desktop would make more sense. The desktop had an Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5400 CPU with 4GB of RAM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was slightly concerned about the amount of RAM because if I wanted to test ZFS, it might require more RAM, but that can be addressed later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I threw on an old 64GB SSD, hooked it up to a spare monitor and concluded the hardware was ready for use.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"installation-media\">Installation media<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.freebsd.org\/en\/books\/handbook\/bsdinstall\/#bsdinstall-pre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">relevant section of the handbook<\/a> gave me a few images to choose from, and I went with the memstick.img option. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Getting the image written to a spare USB drive using the command line utilities in macOS would be simple enough, but I&#8217;ve always had this irrational fear that I might accidentally write it to the wrong disk, so I decided to use the old installation of Windows 7 that was on the Dell desktop to burn the image. That way any mistakes would be contained there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I downloaded <a href=\"https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/win32diskimager\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Win32DiskImager recommended by the handbook<\/a> from SourceForge, though surprisingly all I received were the source files. Usually I&#8217;d expect to get an executable too. Considering I wasn&#8217;t going to compile it from source, I decided to just look for another program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Halfway through, I realised that I could just find something with a graphical interface to burn the image on macOS instead, and I ended up following the <a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntu.com\/tutorials\/create-a-usb-stick-on-macos#1-overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">steps on the Ubuntu tutorial page<\/a> and used Etcher to prepare the installation media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"503\" data-attachment-id=\"4947\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/installing-freebsd\/etcher\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Etcher.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,503\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Etcher\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Etcher-300x151.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Etcher.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Etcher.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4947\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Etcher.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Etcher-300x151.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Etcher-768x386.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Image source: <a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntu.com\/tutorials\/create-a-usb-stick-on-macos#6-write-to-device\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ubuntu<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"installing-freebsd\">Installing FreeBSD<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>I initially thought I should create a screen capture or photo of each and every step of the installation, but as I went through the installation itself, I felt that idea was unnecessary as the handbook already had extremely detailed step-by-step instructions, along with screenshots and detailed explanations on basically every option that was presented to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To me, that was an amazing validation of the handbook, and I really have to tip my hat to the folks behind it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because of that, I&#8217;m only posting certain parts of the installation process below where I felt might be more relevant to my thought process. If you&#8217;re looking for a step-by-step guide, the handbook is the way to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" data-attachment-id=\"4944\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/installing-freebsd\/installing-freebsd\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Installing-FreeBSD.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,750\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.78&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 14 Pro&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1697194961&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6.86&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.03030303030303&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Installing-FreeBSD\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Installing-FreeBSD-300x225.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Installing-FreeBSD.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Installing-FreeBSD.jpeg\" alt=\"Installing FreeBSD\" class=\"wp-image-4944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Installing-FreeBSD.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Installing-FreeBSD-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Installing-FreeBSD-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Once the installation media was ready, booting into this screen was straightforward, and I selected 1 to proceed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" data-attachment-id=\"4952\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/installing-freebsd\/screen2-disk-selection\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen2-Disk-selection.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,750\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.78&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 14 Pro&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1697195713&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6.86&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;125&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.011111111111111&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screen2-Disk-selection\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen2-Disk-selection-300x225.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen2-Disk-selection.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen2-Disk-selection.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4952\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen2-Disk-selection.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen2-Disk-selection-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen2-Disk-selection-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Selecting the correct disk was pretty straightforward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" data-attachment-id=\"4953\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/installing-freebsd\/screen3-partition-review\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen3-Partition-review.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,750\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.78&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 14 Pro&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1697195791&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6.86&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;125&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.011111111111111&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screen3-Partition-review\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen3-Partition-review-300x225.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen3-Partition-review.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen3-Partition-review.jpeg\" alt=\"Reviewing the partition setup\" class=\"wp-image-4953\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen3-Partition-review.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen3-Partition-review-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen3-Partition-review-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It was my understanding that the swap space should be double that of the actual RAM size, and I&#8217;m not sure why the defaults set it at 2.6GB instead of 8GB, but I decided to just roll with it and see what would happen later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I decided to go with the UFS file system for now over ZFS due to my earlier concerns over RAM. I&#8217;ll explore the differences and requirements of ZFS later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" data-attachment-id=\"4954\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/installing-freebsd\/screen4-network-adapter\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen4-Network-adapter.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,750\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.78&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 14 Pro&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1697196091&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6.86&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;125&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.011111111111111&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screen4-Network-adapter\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen4-Network-adapter-300x225.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen4-Network-adapter.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen4-Network-adapter.jpeg\" alt=\"Network card was detected\" class=\"wp-image-4954\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen4-Network-adapter.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen4-Network-adapter-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen4-Network-adapter-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Most importantly for me, the network card was detected and an IP address was retrieved over DHCP without any fuss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I recall many years ago when I had trouble getting my network card detected and installed in Linux, which caused me a lot of grief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"400\" data-attachment-id=\"4957\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/installing-freebsd\/bsdinstall-finalconfiguration\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/bsdinstall-finalconfiguration.png\" data-orig-size=\"720,400\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"bsdinstall-finalconfiguration\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/bsdinstall-finalconfiguration-300x167.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/bsdinstall-finalconfiguration.png\" src=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/bsdinstall-finalconfiguration.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4957\" style=\"width:650px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/bsdinstall-finalconfiguration.png 720w, https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/bsdinstall-finalconfiguration-300x167.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Image source: <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.freebsd.org\/en\/books\/handbook\/bsdinstall\/#bsdinstall-pre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FreeBSD handbook<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I was a little confused and frustrated here, because I had selected OK, and didn&#8217;t get any feedback for a few minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I thought I didn&#8217;t successfully key in my input, when in actual fact it was probably just writing the final bit of set up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fortunately nothing bad happened, and I just needed to wait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" data-attachment-id=\"4955\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/installing-freebsd\/screen5-successful-login\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen5-Successful-login.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,750\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.78&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 14 Pro&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1697197047&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6.86&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.022222222222222&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screen5-Successful-login\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen5-Successful-login-300x225.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen5-Successful-login.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen5-Successful-login.jpeg\" alt=\"FreeBSD was successfully installed\" class=\"wp-image-4955\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chungliwen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen5-Successful-login.jpeg 1000w, 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It was really straightforward and I should have tried this sooner instead of worrying about the challenges that I might have faced.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"conclusion\">Conclusion<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>From this exercise I&#8217;ve happily accepted that the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.freebsd.org\/en\/books\/handbook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FreeBSD handbook<\/a> is a really good resource that lives up to its name. If anybody wants some help with FreeBSD, I think it&#8217;s a good place to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re keen to find out more about the FreeBSD project, I think <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w6oGeTm95no&amp;list=PLLyOAjBz644aPAJuAL38WYaturNDYiGzw&amp;index=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thi<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w6oGeTm95no&amp;list=PLLyOAjBz644aPAJuAL38WYaturNDYiGzw&amp;index=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">s<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w6oGeTm95no&amp;list=PLLyOAjBz644aPAJuAL38WYaturNDYiGzw&amp;index=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> video<\/a> is a great place to start. It&#8217;s one of the first videos I watched to get a better understanding of the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest hurdles I always had to learning and installing FreeBSD or Linux was getting it installed. Though it&#8217;s much easier nowadays. 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