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installation
- Beginning with &os; 9.0-RELEASE, &os; provides an easy
- to use, text-based installation
- program named bsdinstall. This
- chapter describes how to install &os; using
+ There are several different ways of getting &os; to run,
+ depending on the environment. Those are:
+
+
+
+ Virtual Machine images, to download and
+ import on a virtual environment of choice.
+ These can be downloaded from the
+ Download FreeBSD
+ page. There are images for KVM (qcow2),
+ VMWare (vmdk), Hyper-V (vhd),
+ and raw device images that are universally supported.
+ These are not installation images, but rather the
+ preconfigured (already installed) instances,
+ ready to run and perform post-installation tasks.
+
+
+
+ Virtual Machine images available at Amazon's
+ AWS Marketplace
+ and Microsoft Azure Marketplace,
+ to run on their respective hosting services.
+ For more information on deploying &os;
+ on Azure please consult the relevant chapter in the
+ Azure Documentation.
+
+
+
+ SD card images, for embedded systems such
+ as Raspberry Pi or BeagleBone Black. These can be
+ downloaded from the
+ Download FreeBSD
+ page. These files must be uncompressed and written
+ as a raw image to an SD card, from which the board will
+ then boot.
+
+
+
+ Installation images, to install &os; on
+ a hard drive for the usual desktop, laptop, or server
+ systems.
+
+
+
+ The rest of this chapter describes the fourth case,
+ explaining how to install &os; using the text-based
+ installation program named
bsdinstall.In general, the installation instructions in this chapter