Installing 5.3

As I'm going to try and do the install of 5.3, I'm digging up some links to follow. I downloaded the miniinst ISO, just to make it a little easier. We'll see what happens from there.

Here's what I've found so far:

• Of course, you need to start here : Installing FreeBSD, which is the installation guide from the FreeBSD.org handbook.


• Installing FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE
  from the Colorado State engineering department's very useful looking FreeBSD Guide.


• 
  FreeBSD Stable Release Install Guide : It is a 4.9/4.10 install guide, but it is very well done.
  

I'll add any more links I come across to this entry.

FreeBSD Guide page

Here's a very useful looking web site called "FreeBSD Guide". It looks like it is hosted by the Colorado State engineering department. Lots of cool help found here so far!

Welcome to our FreeBSD Guide!

Live CD list

The LiveCD List is a table with all the myriad possible "Live" CDs that are downloadable. 99% of them are, of course, Linux ones, but both the FreeBSD Live CD and the FreeSBIE cd are on the list. It's a great way to test out your configuration, and many of them can be installed right from the LiveCD. Check it out!

The LiveCD List

Trying 5.3 again

Well, I'm going to try it again. I'm downloading the latest 5.3 released version, and I'm going try to installed 5.3 on my "other" machine. As mentioned in here previously, I haven't had much luck with a full-blown, X Windows install, having problems with both X and getting the mouse to work through my KVM switch. But the fact that the FreesBie release worked pretty well has encouraged me to try it again. We'll see, I guess.

Wiki overview

I'm looking into adding a Wiki to some of the web sites I host, and I came across this pretty solid overview of open source wiki software. Written in Nov. 2004, it's pretty up to date and has given me lots of grist to chew over:

ONLamp.com: Which Open Source Wiki Works For You?

More IPFiltter help

Yet another page, somewhat dated, for using IPFilter:


Firewalling with FreeBSD and IPF

Of course, don't forget the handbook page:

Firewalls

And your local examples found at:

/usr/share/examples/ipfilter/