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VMWare: Operating system: Install: FreeBSD: How install FreeBSD v3.4 on VMWare v4.0 for Windows?
Nov 15th, 2003 18:51
Knud van Eeden,
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VMWare: Operating system: Install: FreeBSD: How install FreeBSD v3.4
on VMWare v4.0 for Windows?
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Steps: Overview:
1. -Possibly download your FreeBSD CDs at
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-
1/books/handbook/mirrors.html
2. -Create a new virtual machine
(menu 'File'->'New'->'Virtual machine'
3. -Choose 'FreeBSD'
4. -Give it a descriptive name
(e.g. 'FreeBSD v3.4 - English')
5. -Accept the defaults
6. -Possibly reduce the assigned memory
to e.g. 64 megabyte (or else it
might slow or freeze your Microsoft Windows XP
with 256 megabyte RAM)
7. -Start the virtual machine
8. -This will start the installation of FreeBSD
9. -Select 'check kernel configuration in Visual mode'
10. -Choose 'Novice installation' (for example)
11. -Select 'A' entire disk
12. -Select 'C' create slice
13. -Select 'Q' to quit
14. -Select 'Install the FreeBSD Boot manager'
15. -Select 'A' (Autodefaults for all)
16. -Select 'Q' (Finish)
17. -Select 'A' to install all
18. -Select 'A' to install cryptography
19. -Select '1' to install from a FreeBSD CDROM
20. -Choose 'Y'es to start the formatting
21. -After some time you should see
'All File information written successfully'
22. -It will now start to extract the packages
from CD to your VMWare disk
So you should see e.g. 'Extracting bin into / directory ...'
and so on...
23. -Reboot in text mode
24. -Login as root
su
<your root password>
25. -Install VMWare tools
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23. -After choosing/trying some further settings for
the mouse, and graphical screen, it installed
OK, with desktop KDE as the desktop manager
(FreeBSD uses XFree86 as the XWindows manager).
24. -The only thing I still have to change is the size of the
icons and fonts on the desktop (really much too big).
I will try to do
this for example via the settings in the VMWare .vmx file,
otherwise by running xfree86.
25. -If you press <CTRL><T>, this will/should open a console.
Otherwise click on button 'One', that will open the
file manager, if you then choose the menu option
'File'->'Open Console'
26. -After reboot, a text mode screen was presented.
In the console type
xf86config
27. -Press <ENTER> to continue
28. -Choose the mouse you use (I chose 9. 'Microsoft IntelliMouse')
-y to emulate
-type /dev/tty0 for the mouse
29. -I did not chose XKB
30. -Alt keys: no
31. -I chose '1. Standard VGA'
32. -Restarting showed that
VertRefresh() was null
33. -I edited the XF86Config file:
-To see the manual of vi, type:
man vi
-To edit the file manually, type:
vi /etc/XF86Config
-To save the file type:
<ESCAPE>
:w <filename to save>
e.g.
:w /etc/XF86Config
If you want to force an
overwrite of a read only
file, use:
:w! <filename to save>
e.g.
:w! /etc/XF86Config
-To quit, type:
<ESCAPE>
:q
or you can also use
<CTRL><Z>
to abandon the editor
34. -I edited the file /etc/XF86Config
searched for the entry
VertRefresh( null )
Press <INSERT> to be able to
edit,
and replaced it with
VertRefresh( 60 )
then save the file and quit.
35. -I rerun after some trying again
xf86config
chose
4. PS/2 mouse,
'no' Emulate3buttons
5. and video mode
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Internet: see also:
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VMWare: Operating system: Install: FreeBSD: How install FreeBSD v4.8
on VMWare v4.0.5 for Windows?
http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/26577/fid/525
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VMWare: v4.0: Operating system: Install: All: Overview
[Windows/Linux/Unix/FreeBSD/Solaris/Novell]
http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/22119/fid/1149
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