Installing FreeBSD

Installing FreeBSD For Non-geeks And Beginners

I know they are floating all around the Internet. Installation guides for various operating systems. And now here’s another one. Now I don’t claim my guide is better than others, but this guide is written with the beginner and non-geek in mind. I’ve put a lot of effort into making it easy to read and hopefully easy to understand as well. I also tried explaining “why” as often as I could instead of just explaining “how”. The “why” part is perhaps not as elaborated as I could have wished for. But I hope you will find this guide useful.

When I first decided to write a guide on installing FreeBSD the release was 2.2. And one would install FreeBSD from 2 floppies. This option is still supported up and to release 7.4 but not covered in this guide.

But to cut to the chase here is my guide on how to install FreeBSD. It will show you how to install FreeBSD from a CD-ROM image. The release we will install is FreeBSD 7.3. The latest release at the time of writing.