== FreeBSD on DETER ==

== Officially Supported Images == 

=== FBSD7-STD ===

* [https://www.isi.deterlab.net/showimageid.php3?imageid=460 FBSD7-STD] FreeBSD 7.3 image.

== 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 7.3-RELEASE are mirrored on scratch.  In order to install binary packages from scratch,  the environment variable '''PACKAGEROOT''' is set to '\http://scratch'.  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://ftp3.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.3-release/Latest Packages available for FreeBSD 7.3]
 * [http://ftp3.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.1-release/Latest Packages available for FreeBSD 8.1 (soon to be supported on DETER)]

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'''