Most documents were initially written for FreeBSD 4.x-RELEASE. If instructions have changed with the newer versions of FreeBSD please update the pages.

FreeBSD Installation Instructions

• SecurityAdvisories
• BasicInstall (basic installation instructions for installation from CD)
• NetworkHardening
• SecurityTips
• RecommendedInstall
• IsoImages (restricted to uwaterloo.ca)

Policy and Planning Documents

• FreeBSDatUW
• NAADevelopment
• QuickAndDirtyFreeBSD

How To's

• VlanSetup
• UpdatePorts (includes instructions for updating operating system source via cvs)
• BindUpgrade
• InstallRsync
• ApacheWebServer
• ModPhp
• BasicRadiusServer
• PamSmbAuth
• PamRadius
• RestrictingLogins
• ApacheNexusAuthentication
• SshKeys
• VinumDiskStriping
• DualProcessorKernel
• MySql
• PhpMyAdmin
• NfsClientConfiguration
• NfsServerConfiguration
• ClientFirewallConfiguration
• OpenLdap
• SendmailConfiguration
• LegatoNetworker
• PortsBuildMachine
• AtaRaid
• UserQuotas
• CustomRelease
• WuFtpd
• PseudoTtys
• SambaServer
• DebianCDImage
• StatefulFirewalling
• ExtensibleAccountingSystem (xas)
• OpenNetworkAdministrator (ona)
• ApcUps
• TrivialFileTransferProtocol (tftp)
• NetworkMonitoring (nagios, snort)
• ChangeHostname
• WorkstationGnomeInstall
• OpenVpnBridge
• Going back to a previous version of a particular port
• Growing filesystems with growfs
• Deinstall_Reinstall_Ports

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Hardware

• BurnInProcedure
• HardwareInformation
• ScsiVersusIde
• AtaRaid

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Appliances

The notion of an appliance is a server dedicated to a particular task, or small group of tasks. Each appliance has the installation procedure documented below, so that appliances can be rebuilt from scratch quickly, etc.

• BasicApplianceGuidelines

AuthenticationServer	ecserv1
ldap.nexus, ldap.engineering	ecserv2
CvsEtc (www.freebsd)	ecserv3
NetworkBackupAppliance	ecserv5 ecserv6
MyWaterloo	ecserv7
DhcpDns	ecserv9 ecserv10
NexusSignonScreen	ecserv11
UserServer	engage, ftp.eng (ecserv12)
MailServer	engmail
WebServer	schooner
PrintServer	engprint
NetworkAuthenticationAppliance (NAA)	ecserv4
license.nexus	ecserv20
Master ApplicationAppliance	engshare
WatcardSwiper	swipe-prn, swipe-ts
ProfileServer	ecfile2
FileServer	ecfile1

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Test Results, Experiments, etc

• SambaGarden

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