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Index: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall/chapter.xml
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<indexterm><primary>installation</primary></indexterm>
- <para>Beginning with &os;&nbsp;9.0-RELEASE, &os; provides an easy
- to use, text-based installation
- program named <application>bsdinstall</application>. This
- chapter describes how to install &os; using
+ <para>There are several different ways of getting &os; to run,
+ depending on the environment. Those are:</para>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Virtual Machine images, to download and
+ import on a virtual environment of choice.
+ These can be downloaded from the
+ <link xlink:href="https://www.freebsd.org/where.html">Download FreeBSD</link>
+ page. There are images for KVM (<quote>qcow2</quote>),
+ VMWare (<quote>vmdk</quote>), Hyper-V (<quote>vhd</quote>),
+ and raw device images that are universally supported.
+ These are not installation images, but rather the
+ preconfigured (<quote>already installed</quote>) instances,
+ ready to run and perform post-installation tasks.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Virtual Machine images available at Amazon's
+ <link xlink:href="https://aws.amazon.com/mp/solutions/freebsd/">AWS Marketplace</link>,
+ <link xlink:href="https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps?search=freebsd&amp;page=1">Microsoft Azure Marketplace</link>,
+ and <link xlink:href="https://console.cloud.google.com/launcher/details/freebsd-cloud/freebsd-11">Google Cloud Platform</link>,
+ to run on their respective hosting services.
+ For more information on deploying &os;
+ on Azure please consult the relevant chapter in the
+ <link xlink:href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/freebsd-intro-on-azure">Azure Documentation</link>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>SD card images, for embedded systems such
+ as Raspberry Pi or BeagleBone Black. These can be
+ downloaded from the
+ <link xlink:href="https://www.freebsd.org/where.html">Download FreeBSD</link>
+ page. These files must be uncompressed and written
+ as a raw image to an SD card, from which the board will
+ then boot.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Installation images, to install &os; on
+ a hard drive for the usual desktop, laptop, or server
+ systems.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ <para>The rest of this chapter describes the fourth case,
+ explaining how to install &os; using the text-based
+ installation program named
<application>bsdinstall</application>.</para>
<para>In general, the installation instructions in this chapter

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