Installing FreeBSD from iso without CD, and one more question

[majid fooladpour]

Thank you Mathew. How come the images are so big (917 MB)? The iso
image I downloaded was only 45.7 MB.

On 01/01/2011, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
> On 01/01/2011 12:23, majid fooladpour wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am new to FreeBSD and I have a few questions which may or may not be
>> related directly to ports.
>>
>> I have downloaded FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso, is there
>> anyway to install FreeBSD with this on a Flash memory (without burning
>> a CD)?
>
> You want one of the USB memory-stick images for that -- eg.
>
> http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/8.2/FreeBSD-8.2-RC1-i386-memstick.img
>
> Actually, if you're running a reasonably up-to-date CPU, then you're
> probably better of with a 64bit system:
>
> http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-amd64/8.2/FreeBSD-8.2-RC1-amd64-memstick.img
>
>> - I have installed FreeBSD 6.2 from a bootable CD,
>
> ... which is quite a long time out of support now: you really want 8.x
> for a new install.
>
>> - I know how to mount the usb flash in FreeBSD 6.2
>> - I have Windows XP on another hard drive and I can open the iso file
>> inin there with 7zip and extract the files/folders to rearrange them
>> and save the result back to flash disk.
>
> You can do everything you need from Unix -- it will take a little time
> before you learn all the commands and so forth you need, but it will
> ultimately give you better results.
>
>> I thought when you install a *nix like system you are ready to go with
>> all you need for web development. This does not seem to be true. I
>
> Correct.  Installing the OS is just the beginning.  FreeBSD is not
> supplied pre-configured to perform any particular role: while it can do
> just about anything, it takes the admin (ie. you) to put the necessary
> pieces together.
>
>> need to set up a LAMP environment. In Windows I got that in two steps:
>> 1. Downloaded XAMPP from Apache Friends and installed (and got Apache
>> + PHP + MySQL),
>> 2. Downloaded Notepad++ and installed
>> What should I do in FreeBSD to get the same envo? - And I really want
>> the ability to have debugging on PHP which I missed on Windows.
>
> Well, LAMP ==> Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP.  Forget the Linux part --
> you've already chosen a superior alternative.  The other three
> components you'll need to install from ports.  The following commands
> should get you pretty much where you need to be:
>
>    # portsnap fetch install
>    # cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster
>    # make all install clean
>    # rehash
>    # portmaster databases/mysql55-server
>    # portmaster www/apache22
>    # portmaster lang/php5
>
> You'll get a number of OPTIONs dialogues during the course of that: for
> the most part, you can just take the defaults *but* when installing
> lang/php5 make sure you check the option 'Build Apache Module'.
>
> You will also need to install various other PHP, pear and pecl modules
> to give you all the required PHP functionality -- it's best to use the
> ports to do that where the appropriate bits are available from ports.
>
> Now, that, plus a bit of work on configuration files is what you need to
> build a production webserver.  For development support, you'll need to
> install a bunch of other software.  Precisely what to install is a
> matter of personal taste.  There are a number of different ones
> available.  Given you're coming from a Windows environment, you'll
> probably find one of the all-singing, all-dancing IDEs closest to what
> you're used to.  Probably java/phpeclipse would be a good one to try,
> but it needs you to install a lot of other stuff, including java.
>
> 	Cheers,
>
> 	Matthew
>
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