== FreeBSD on DETER ==


== Officially Supported Images == 

 * [https://www.isi.deterlab.net/showosinfo.php?osid=1013 FBSD8-STD] FreeBSD 8.x standard
 * [https://www.isi.deterlab.net/showosinfo.php?osid=1803 FBSD9-64-STD] FreeBSD 9.x standard
 * [https://www.isi.deterlab.net/showosinfo.php?osid=1936 FBSD10-STD] FreeBSD 10.x standard

== Working with FreeBSD ==

=== First things first ===

FreeBSD comes with excellent documentation.  This includes complete manual pages that document everything from syscalls to command line utilities and a handbook that covers basic system administration tasks.

 * [http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi Web Interface for the FreeBSD man pages]
 * [http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ The FreeBSD Handbook]
 * [http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html All FreeBSD documentation resources]

=== Binary Packages ===

Binary packages for FreeBSD are mirrored on scratch.  In order to install binary packages from scratch,  the environment variable '''PACKAGEROOT''' is set.  To check that this is set, simple echo the variable:

{{{
node0 ~]$ echo $PACKAGEROOT
http://scratch
[jjh@node0 ~]$ 
}}}

You can now use the [http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg_add&sektion=1 pkg_add] command to install packages.  Using the '-r' option instructs [http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg_add&sektion=1 pkg_add] to fetch the package from the remote host defined by the PACKAGEROOT variable.  This command needs to be run as root, so we use the sudo command.

{{{
[jjh@node0 ~]$ sudo pkg_add -r tmux
Fetching http://scratch/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.3-release/Latest/tmux.tbz... Done.
[jjh@node0 ~]$ 
}}}

To view the list of available packages, you can go to:
 * [http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.3-release/Latest Packages available for FreeBSD 7.3]
 * [http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.2-release/Latest Packages available for FreeBSD 8.2]

To learn more about managing packages on FreeBSD, please refer to [http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/packages-using.html Section 4.4 of the FreeBSD Handbook]
 
=== Source for FreeBSD ===

For now, the source can be found in '''/share/freebsd'''