Unless you have a server that needs its clocked synchronized to UTC, select No when prompted.

I only entered a single DNS entry for IPv4.

Your DNS setting may be detected for you, but if not, you can enter your DNS settings manually.

Your dynamic network settings are determined.

If you enabled IPv6, you probably want this option, unless you have a specific IPv6 address you need to use.

But you probably don’t need it unless you know you need it.

Lately I like to enable IPv6 because all my operating systems now support it.

Unless you have been given a specific IP address to use, say Yes to enabling DHCP.

Unless you know for sure you are going to use IPv6 only, say Yes to enabling IPv4.

Enter a password for the root account when prompted.

Step 3 – Configure Post-installation settings You will now be asked post-installation configuration questions. It is actually not that long of a wait before you are pretty much done. It runs the checksum verification to make sure media is valid.

Click Commit to perform the installation.

Look over the guided partition settings.

Just use Guided and the root partition will fill the drive.Note: Doesn’t look like we have ZFS options yet.

Partitioning can be done for you with Guided or you can do it yourself with Manual.Note: With todays hard drives, there is little to no benefit from having multiple partitions as there was in the past.

Select the optional system components and press enter.

Enter the host name for this new installation.

If you need a special keyboard layout, click yes, otherwise, click no.

The next screen will automatically boot but delays 9 seconds.

Note: If you system doesn’t boot off the DVD check the BIOS settings or try pressing F12 to select the boot device (Or if using a virtual machine, point the virtual machine’s DVD drive to the ISO file.) Part 2 – Install FreeBSD Step 1 – Boot off the DVD

Note: Skip this step if you are installing to a virtual machine.

I’ll give you this hint though…Do not burn the ISO file onto the disk as a file. I am not going to give you steps for burning an ISO, as you could be on Windows, Linux, OS X, and you could be using any of the DVD burning tools out there. Go to and click to the ISO link for FreeBSD 9 for you architecture.Part 1 – Download the media Step 1 – Download the DVD ISO FreeBSD 9 comes with a new installer and installing it is quite fast.

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