How to FreeBSD: Installation Tutorial (14.0-RELEASE)

[@Felix-ve9hs]

18:24 Or use ee (easy editor) instead of vi :)

[@sheridans]

Thanks, pinned. Never used it 😀

[@alainkoningverdraag6698]

Thank you very much for this video. After twenty plus years of running Linux, FreeBSD is a breath of fresh air; and your video rocks!!

[@sheridans]

Thank you for your kind comments, FreeBSD is a great operating system welcome aboard 😀

[@wildmanjeff42]

Thanks for the video ! Just found your channel, even after all these years of using freebsd and watching many computer freebsd and linux channels. I have no idea why they suggest some of the videos they do, and yet miss channels with content I have specifically been searching for over and over.

[@sheridans]

Thank you so much for your kind words! I'm glad you found my channel after all this time. It's always great to connect with fellow FreeBSD enthusiasts!

[@valeriy3162]

First I wanna thank you for your video , I"m ZERO on BSD and I started to learn how to install, used, and improved my skills on it. I will follow on your video. Thanks again

[@sheridans]

Great to hear!

[@TradersTradingEdge]

Great Sam, keep it going. I'm sure in the coming years many Linuxers will move their servers or even Desktops to FreeBSD like I did. It's really a fantastic OS. I currently exploring Jails / BastilleBSD. It's incredible how Jails on FreeBSD can be managed with it. Looking forward for the next one ;-) Great Job Mate, t'care.

[@sheridans]

Thanks for the feedback! I have some videos planned on jails, such as hosting multiple versions of php in jails and using haproxy to direct traffic to the appropriate jails. Thanks again for your support.

[@kztuptuo7076]

Man I love this series. Im a long time slackware / debian / linux user , who is fed up with linux drama inside linux governing body LINUX FUNDATION. They are more concern with let say various non tech related issues then the kernel it self. Free bsd foundation seems to be oriented on provide the best system possible to its end users. So think i will swich.

[@sheridans]

Thanks for the great feedback 👍 I do love FreeBSD, I do dual boot it with Arch for games and things since Arch has latest available s/w. Debian is good for stability of things requiring docker, etc. It's a been a minute since I used slackware. FreeBSD is an awesome o/s though, my preferred. The separation of system and packages, and no systemd :)

[@lqlarry]

I'm a little late but I'm catching up. Loving the FreeBSD stuff. Subscribed and enjoying.

[@sheridans]

It's never too late, welcome and thank you

[@nightwolf1966]

Awesome job please keep up the great work

[@sheridans]

Thank you! Will try 😀

[@NostalgiaPlaysPS1]

Nice video bro! Can you please make a video showing how I can install some specific libs on my system?

[@sheridans]

Which ones, specifically? 😀

[@NostalgiaPlaysPS1]

@@sheridans I have some downloaded libs files here and I need do install them on my system. They are needed for a game I'm trying to create a server for, so they came with the downloaded server files, but I need to install them on my FreeBSD

[@sheridans]

What's the game? I'm bad at getting games going under wine.

[@NostalgiaPlaysPS1]

@@sheridans It's not using wine, but the game is Metin2. I'm using FreeBSD to run a game server, it runs using C and C++ and it's not under wine, but I found out each version of the OS has it's own libs necessary and each version of the game server has also the libs that are required, but I kinda found out how to bypass the problem, some cool dudes shared a .ova file with the FreeBSD pre configured and with the majority of the required libs already available. But thanks for answering and for the will to help, I'll follow you.

[@sheridans]

Glad you got it run, and ty

[@sizzlecatdaddy]

Good Evening Sir, I am having difficulty using Vi when editing the dir we created at 18:35. theres nothing on the bottom that gives you the available commands.

[@sheridans]

If you struggle with vi, use ee (easy editor) instead

[@sizzlecatdaddy]

@@sheridans I apologize I am very much struggling with trying to use ee. is there any chance you can start a video series for complete Noobs/non technical folks to FreeBSD. I am very intersted

[@knoxduder]

I need help installing it for a dual boot environment on older MacBook pros.

[@sizzlecatdaddy]

Good Day, I get up to 16:10 and notice mine does not display mult user mode only single user mode. Is there anything specific I can do to pull up error code or message to attempt to troubleshoot it? Any help is much appreciated

[@sheridans]

Removed the boot media?

[@sizzlecatdaddy]

Yes i did, now freebsd wont even boot up and displays my mac address and guid and continuous ... like its trying to boot with usb media removed. Even from first inserting usb and booting up freebsd it never has shown multi user@@sheridans

[@sheridans]

Sounds like it's trying to network boot because it can't find something to boot from

[@sizzlecatdaddy]

Should i go into bios and change boot order?@@sheridans

[@sizzlecatdaddy]

Thank you man you are the best, i set boot as my SSD first, when i was doing the installation i guess i had it only to GPT, not bios and uefi. @@sheridans

[@Luix]

first time in my life I install free bsd and it is more difficult than mandrake 8 almost 20 years ago.

[@sheridans]

You need to give it a chance, all operating systems have changed in last 20 years

[@woolfy02]

I'm trying to install the latest version of freebsd on my ThinkPad T495 (AMD graphics) but keep getting this error: psm0: irq 12 on atkbdc0. It Keep saying it's "Giant locked" and I can't seem to get past that. Anyone else figure out how to fix this? Dragonflybsd seems to install fine, which is strange. I've tried to disable the trackpad in the bios and have used a USB keyboard / mouse but, that didn't work. (also tried older versions of freebsd, which does nothing). Arch linux has no issues installing if that helps.

[@sheridans]

You could try option 7 from boot menu: hint.uart.1.disabled="1" boot And see if that works

[@woolfy02]

@@sheridans thank you. I'll try it and let you know.

[@woolfy02]

@@sheridans I'm not sure I'm doing it right. When it boots, I hit option 7 and it says either "back to main menu or load system defaults". Besides that, it has ACPI ON and the last 3 are off. (Im unable to type that command for some reason). When I go back to the original menu and hit 3, I get the option to enter that command. I typed "set hint.uart.1.disabled="1"" and "boot" but, it did the same thing. Very frustrating.

[@woolfy02]

@@sheridans I ended up finding a similar command and, it finally let me into the installer! I did the option 3 and typed these in: set hint.uart.0.disabled="1" set hint.uart.1.disabled="1" boot I'll tried it with the 1 command you mentioned but it didn't like it. Not really sure what was disabled but, it's a lot farther than I've ever been in it. Thanks for the help though!

[@sheridans]

Thanks for sharing that, 👍 glad you're sorted

[@TheWindyweather]

Why is FreeBSD so far behind? If you have not tried it, please try installing Linux Mint. Some of the differences I note are: LMint works WITH SECURE BOOT so you don't have to turn it off. The installer is Graphical. You don't spend minutes or hours configuring apps to use the system, The apps are there when you install. Why does Free BSD not keep up with the times. We have moved on from the 70's by now. At least the rest of us have. I'd love to use FREE BSD, but not in it's current state.

[@sheridans]

I use FreeBSD all the time on desktop and laptop. Desktop had 3 drives, Windows, FreeBSD and Arch. Usually, I'm on FreeBSD, Arch for anything needing Linux, Windows for Video editing and stuff. To each their own, all operating systems have their own merits. Linux wise, I use either Arch or Debian. Don’t really see the point of all the flavours