Three Installs! - GhostBSD, NomadBSD & FreeBSD

i got a message from lucy and she says can you make another freebsd install video it's been a while since the last one and i think people are starting to realize how bad windows and macos are getting hello from america well lucy i can and i can do one better i can show you how you install ghostbsd and nomad bst as well [Music] before we start if this is your first time to the channel and you would like to learn more about freebsd and the journey to a better desktop and server then please hit subscribe and hit the bell so you don't miss out [Music] right first things we need to do is we need to go to the ghost psd home page if you're just typing ghost psd into google it will take you to an option where you can go to the main page or you can download it straight there we're going to go to the main page so i can show you how to navigate from there so here's the main page it's a lovely uh homepage unlike ghost pst one so click at the top download and it will take you to the official image first which is got mate and you can use torrent or direct download and then underneath you've got ghost pst community images which runs xfce which is the non-official but the official one that you really want to be using is the uh mate one you can download direct from these mirrors so they've got us canadian french and south african or you can use the torrent if you wish minimum specs is 64-bit processor 4 gigabytes of ram and 15 gigabytes of free hard drive space and the network card so we're just going to go down to the french one for me and download from there it's a two and a half gigabyte file size which is not too bad so just save it and then we'll let you do its business and you can also donate if you want which i've done on several occasions and we'll do again it's always nice to give something back to this worthwhile project right it's been downloaded and what we're going to do now is i'm going to write it to a usb stick i'm going to use dd you can change the actual device name if you wish so i've got d a0 but you can be da1 da2 etc and the bs equals 4 megabytes you can change that to 1 if your usb stick is not compatible it just speeds it up really so we're just going to let it do its business all done and there we are so transfer the usb stick to my test machine and then we'll reboot so we're now putting into the usual test machine uh with the usb stick with the newly created ghost bsd image on it oh just light blue up there we are there's a nice welcoming main menu i'm just going to let that run down it's not too bad uh the waiting time on this i'm going to fast forward the boot and because ghost bsd is a live uh system it has to copy some uh things over and there we go a nice girl's psd desktop and if you've seen previous videos on ghost pst you know as you can see it's uh it's got almost everything you need for a desktop setup even in the live mode it's very nice indeed and there we are there's the system resources of the test machine even though we haven't installed it yet speaking of which we will start the install by clicking the install gauss bsd icon and now what this will do it will put it on your hard drive and it will just generally turn a live system into a an install system so we choose the language there is plenty to choose from if you go down to the one that fits your needs and for me that's going to be english i've just seen english uk but we'll leave it at the default uh keyboard layout um change it to english uk obviously you choose the one that suits you best and you can change the keyboard models if you you know specific make of the keyboard you're using so we're just going to test this now i'm going to do some quotation marks pound signs dollar signs and hashes yeah everything's in the right place so we click next and we know the time zone so for me it's going to be europe for you it'd be somewhere else so once we have that we go down to london there we go next in a full disk configuration that means it'll use the entire disk or you could custom if you want to choose something like uh if you want to dual boot so this is what the custom would look like it allows you to add partitions and change things etc i don't normally change that um because i don't normally do blue but if you want to that's the way to do it so clicking on fold this configuration because i want to put the entire drive to gauss bsd it presents us with some zfs options so the drive you want is ada0 and da0 is the install uh usb stick we don't want that one we can choose single disc two mirror three four etcetera etcetera but what we're going to do is uh single disc because we want to go on driving the default pool name is zedroop but we're going to change that and we're going to call it you don't have to do this of course but we're going to call it tank tank there we go that checked and everything else is default gpt and swap yeah we'll leave that as it is so if you're happy with everything there we click on next and it gives us only one option because it's the only one we're installing but you can set up um refine boot manager you can set up a freebsd boot manager or just leave it on freebsd bios loader only um just because that's the only one we've got we'll leave it on that one system password or administration password it's not a strongest one and actually tells you it's super weak and leave it at that real name obviously is robonoggy it automatically fills in the host name with your name at the beginning which is nice but we're just going to change that to test as i always do the username is based upon your full name of course password again there we are very nice one thing i do like is if you get one letter in wrong it tells you whether x there that doesn't match just in case you type something incorrectly so just type the right one and the shell i prefer uh i always go for sh but you've got plenty to choose from there for the born shell is uh sufficient i think for our needs and that's it install the ghost pst install installation process is very nice and we're just going to time it i'm going to fast forward and time how long it takes to install from the disk to the hard drive so we have a fully working system and five minutes 58 seconds zero eight not bad at all and now we're done so we're just going to click on restart take the usb stick out of the uh test machine and we'll boot onto the hard drive on the newly installed ghost psd and there we have it put in the password log in and give it a moment there we go very nice and as you notice on the desktop the installation icon is not there now and we have a fully working course bsd system with all the same things as it did on the live session now with the ability to add plenty more depending on your hard drive size of course so yeah the installation process for ghost pst is super easy and very quick [Music] nomad bsd's installation is a little bit more convoluted but we'll show you what we do right research nomad bsd in the google search engine like we did before and you get an option to download i'll go to the main site we'll go to the main site and just like ghostbst the option is right at the top but if you look at the requirements again 64-bit or 32-bit 5 gigabyte usb and a 1.2 cpu and one gigabyte of ram so the system requirements is modest so we click at the top and go to download and it gives you instructions on how to download and then extract the image file which is very handy for all the major systems you've got all this open bsd netbst macos etc so if you're using any of them systems it shows you how you can do it and of course windows you can use uh etcher etc plenty of mirrors to download from and confusingly the actual image that we want is nomad 13 0r and if you look at the bottom it says nomad 1.4 you would think just looking at that on the cursory glance that nomad 1.4 is higher than nomad 13 but they renamed the latest build to 13 now to represent freebsd 13.0 release just inc you know just so for them it's easy to tell you what what about the tracking on the freebsd so we click on london all the one obviously near yourselves and we save and it's just um it's two gigabytes which is smaller than the ghostbuster image and we start the download and we'll just let it do its business we'll write it to usb stick when it's downloaded right again we're on the command line and we're going to extract the image file or decompress it so lzma and hyphen d for decompress there's the nomad vst image name and we've just decompressed it now we need to write to the usb stick and i'm following the instructions on the nomad bsd website so copy and paste that in again your device name will probably be different fast forward right all done now we're just going to rebuild the test machine with the usb stick installed one thing about the nomad vst install process it really does depend on the speed of your usb stick and the machine i'm using doesn't have usb 3. so it's really slow and the usb stick itself is not famed for being fast so there we are it's booting into the main menu what it'll do first it needs to expand the image to fill up the usb drive and set various uh parameters up so we need to select your language and your locale so it's uh plenty to choose from like ghostbuster there's you know there's very few that's left out of course english united kingdom so now press next and welcome to nomad bsd setup wizard okay so choose the default keyboard layout and it chooses it automatically for the locale that we chose earlier i'm gonna leave that as it is so click next and additional keyboard layouts if you want them which we don't so next again and the time zone and again it automatically chooses based upon your previous answers very good we'll just uh next again it's all very simple so far password like uh ghost psd you need to put in a root or admin password doesn't tell you if he's strong or weaks like he did in ghost pst but that doesn't matter it also does tell you whether they match or not which is again useful so next it's an interesting option now that it gives you whether you can encrypt the actual data on it with it being primarily uh intended for mobile os or you know you can carry around you don't want anyone getting all of it and getting all your data so we're not going to bother with it but that's a very useful feature and your preferred shell editors and file manager so it defaults automatically to fish but again we want born shell easy editor we'll leave and leave pad yeah we'll leave you on leaf pad for the uh gui editor and fire manager will leave it on through that so pretty sensible choices uh straight away and if you're happy with that you take commit and it will write to the usb stick making everything ready for being used as a portable os this took a long time uh like i said this wasn't the speediest your experience may be different but we'll fast forward through it right all done and finish to reboot and it will actually reboot using your usb stick so don't take it out like you did with cops psd because you're not just installing to the hard drive yet that will come up in the next bit but for now it's acting as it should it's acting as a portable os booting off your usb drive so again for the second time we go into the nomad bst menu and we'll just like count down and boot again it wasn't the fastest and uh i really should get something with a usb 3 uh ports i think and there we go that took it sweet time as you can see it's pretty loaded with uh utilities and uh applications which is all very nice and all these will get transferred to your hard drive so we need to go down to system and at the bottom well near the bottom it'll say nomad bsd installer this is the little utility which will do the magic for us it will basically copy what's on the usb stick to the hard drive so next uh obviously just one hard drive we can use you can ask you can use ufs or zfs we'll just choose the default and username now this is an interesting thing it only lets you choose eight characters so yeah that's a rather strange limitation and we'll auto log in anyway but whereas ghostbuster lets you choose uh large names this one doesn't so there's something to be aware of i think next and yeah we'll just commit that just in case you change your mind and there we go so about eight minutes and 53 seconds a little bit longer than ghost pst but not too bad and we'll finish and one more reboot but this time we'll take out the usb stick because we want to boot off the hard drive now and there we are booting into the newly installed on hard drive nomad bsd and this is a wonderful system that they've done to be able to use it as a portable os and then if you want to later then install it hard drive brilliant really nice and it's all very lovely now freebsd is uh slightly more uh involved so go to the freebsd website again like the previous two you get an option to download a few other things as well or go to the main project page which we will do that now and there right at the top it says download freebsd in the big yellow box so you get three choices you can download 13 12.2 or 11.4 you really want to be choosing 13. you get lots of different images that you can choose from which is pretty good but the one that we want is amd64 of course it's good to see that they support 32-bit there's plenty of linux distributions i've given up that so we'll click on amd64 and it will take us to the ftp server and we could just go by uh download the amd64 disc one iso but what we need because we bought onto a memory stick is the memory stick image it's just laid out slightly better it's optimized for memory sticks i think so and it's a gigabyte in size which is not too bad so just let that download nice and quick on uh freebsd mirrors yeah i do get some complains that he's slow but i i really don't have any problems with it i'll just let that finish and for the third and final time we're in the terminal and we're going to be using dd which is now finished because it really doesn't take too long on this one and put it into the test machine and reboot and it will go through the usual freebsd install which really never changes and you can choose install drop to the shell or live cd and it's not live cd is in ghost psd it's slightly different so we're going to choose install we're not going to go with the default key map we're going to go down to all the way down to the bottom uh almost to the bottom anyway united kingdom don't need to test it i know it works so we'll continue with the uk key map and we'll choose a host name again i always choose tester so i know what's going on choose optional system components we don't need the debug symbols uh we're going to leave it at liv 32 could put sauce and parts in if that's something that you really need and normally i would but on this occasion to keep things simple i'm just going to choose slip 32 auto zfs or auto ufs well i'm going to choose auto zfs similarly because i think that's the best default now so we'll click ok for that so we'll just go down to the uh configure the disks choose stripe and select that hard drive you could choose um these other ones if you want like ghost pst but because you've got a single drive you're just going to choose one and the rest of these things will leave as default you can encrypt [Music] disk or encrypt swap so that's that's pretty handy but we'll just proceed as it is and we'll choose yes and the way it goes again i'm going to time this i would imagine it didn't take two minutes there you go well that was really really quick fantastic so we're going to choose password for root it's a bit less user-friendly than the other two ways of doing it but it still works choose the network interface would you like to configure ipv4 yes we would and dhcp yes why not feeling lazy today so it's requiring release now we don't want ipv6 it's going to change that to the google as a fallback there we go and we want to change the time so we don't want utc so we put no europe and all the way down to all the way down to the bottom to united kingdom there we go new one with the bomb and it looks fine we'll skip that because this um we'll skip that because the time is right now these services if you want to uh disable or enable them uh ntp date to get the clock right we don't want dump dev and yeah that's fine i know you can choose if you want to harden the system so we disable ddtrace so secure console you disable send mail which we don't need to be running disable syslog d and clear temp when we reboot would you like to have some users yes of course again just type in username full name it doesn't automatically fill you out like ghostbeer steedles but you know we'll get there login group leave it default and also invite to other groups yes we need wheels so we can access super user from the normal account video just in case there's any compatibility issues and operator so we can access uh any peripherals etc we'll leave that a default and most of these can be left at default anywhere and we get down the password there we go i don't want to lock out the account no and we're happy with this yeah i think so and no we don't want to add another user and that's basically it we just don't need to change anything everything is being done so exit and no again for i don't make any modifications that will allow us to reboot once the system reboots fully then take out the usb stick and it should boot into the newly installed freebsd onto your hard drive and there we go i haven't installed any desktops or anything uh that's for another video i think that but uh it just shows you how you can install onto hard drive and it's really really easy there's a little bit more uh there's a few more questions than the other ones but the process is basically the same anyway hopefully you found this video useful having a look at the three main freebsd based operating systems each with their own little take on how to install but each one doing their own thing very very well so yeah anyway thanks for watching and i'll catch you next time [Music]

Channel: RoboNuggie

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Length: 23min 48sec (1428 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 02 2021

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