FreeBSD 9.0 Installation

Start data:
Notebook: Asus x51rl
hdd: 120 Gb
RAM: 1 Gb
Network: wi-fi
OS version: 9.0

Installation:
I choose this version because it is the latest stable version of FreeBSD. Additionally, I have already worked with previous versions and want to compare them.

In this version installation became easier then before. I just was asked about disk partitions, what I want to install (ports, src, docs) and the installation started. I'm not sure about is this good change or bad. Actually, I preferred to do the "minimal" installation in previous versions and add exactly what I need later. Well, lets see what we'll get. Possibly, I didn't read installation guide carefully.

After installation the installer asked me about services which i  want auto-start  And now I have only 4 services. Not sure it is good for everyone, but I never used a lot of them, so it is OK for me. Additionally, as I specified above, wi-fi is the only net interface for my NB now, so I was ready to configure wi-fi manually. But installer proposed me to configure my network interfaces and managed it well. Therefore I have Internet on my NB and this is great because I plan to install everything other from ports.

Additionally, the installer proposed me to create a new user and i did it. I need to switch to root from this account, so I defined group wheel for it; my command shell is tcsh.

Now the installation complete and I can configure system now.

Starting

Hello.

I've decided to create this blog for describing my FreeBSD experience. Actually, I worked with FreeBSD 6 and 7 on my notebook, but for some reasons must have stoped.

But now I decided to continue my work with this perfect OS and will describe all my experience here.

My reasons to do it:

1. I have reinstalled FreeBSD a lot of times and every time I searched for configuration information I need again and again because some posts I used before had been deleted when I needed them. But now I will have all it gathered in one place and this will be the information I need only.
2. I want to thank everyone who posted different solutions and possibly my blog will be useful for someone too.
3. I plan to write all posts here in English. Also I plan translate some posts to Japanese. Therefore, it will my language practice too.

Well, I think I have told for this post. So lets start.

どうぞよろしくお願いします。