Dave Gawley wanted me to help him set up watcher202.cscf as a FreeBSD system. So here's what I did. watcher202 is a Sun Fire V60z server with a pair of Xeon 2.8GHz CPUs and a pair of 34gb SCSI disks.

Base Install

1. Obtain 5.3-RELEASE CD.
2. Boot said CD, choose Custom install.
3. Partition disks. Dave and I chose to set up a 6gb root slice, 20gb for /usr, and 3gb for /var.
4. Custom: select only the base. We don't care about installing sources, manpages, or any of that stuff, it'll come later.
5. There's probably actually a few steps missing here, but not many.
6. Copy make.conf from oates.cs (for lack of a better source for the time being) and edit out references to perl. We don't need or want profiled libraries, and they're not available from freebsd5.cscf anyway.
7. Update the OS from freebsd5.cscf 's build.

Post Install Configuration

1. Edit /etc/inetd.conf to allow the set of r utilities (shell, login, exec).
2. Edit /etc/rc.conf and let inetd run.
3. Start inetd: /etc/rc.d/inetd start.
4. Edit rhosts files as required.
5. Edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config to allow root to login, and restart ssh: /etc/rc.d/sshd restart.

-- MikePatterson - 06 Apr 2005