In this video, i am going to show how to Install freeBSD 11.1 plus XFCE desktop and basic applications.

FreeBSD is a UNIX-like operating system for the i386, amd64, IA-64, arm, MIPS, powerpc, ppc64, PC-98 and UltraSPARC platforms based on U.C. Berkeley's "4.4BSD-Lite" release, with some "4.4BSD-Lite2" enhancements. It is also based indirectly on William Jolitz's port of U.C. Berkeley's "Net/2" to the i386, known as "386BSD", though very little of the 386BSD code remains. FreeBSD is used by companies, Internet Service Providers, researchers, computer professionals, students and home users all over the world in their work, education and recreation. FreeBSD comes with over 20,000 packages (pre-compiled software that is bundled for easy installation), covering a wide range of areas: from server software, databases and web servers, to desktop software, games, web browsers and business software - all free and easy to install.

Download

https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/ISO-IMAGES/11.1/FreeBSD-11.1-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso

Home Page

http://www.freebsd.org

Commands

How to Install freeBSD 11.1 plus XFCE desktop and basic applications

Select the install option

Choose your keyboard layout

Choose your hostname

Choose optional components

Partition management
Choose the partition type and file system (I am going to use guided and ZFS file system)

Partition management
Confirm and proceed

Partition management
Choose the virtual device type (i only have one hdd so i am going to select stripe)

Partition management
Select the hard drive or hard drives where you want to install freeBSD

Partition management
Confirm that you want to write changes to the disk

Create the root password

Network management

Set your time zone and date

Choose the services to start on boot

Choose system security hardening options

Create a user
Remember to add the user to the wheel group

Exit reboot and remove the DVD

Login with the root user

Install nano text editor

pkg install -y nano

Install xorg

pkg install -y xorg

Install Slim

pkg install -y slim slim-themes

Open and edit rc.conf

nano /etc/rc.conf

Add to the file

dbus_enable="YES"

Add to the file

hald_enable="YES"

Add to the file

slim_enable="YES"

Save and exit
Ctrl+x

Open and edit your user .xinitrc file

nano /home/youruser/.xinitrc

Add to the file

exec startxfce4

Save and exit
Ctrl+x

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