Choosing the Distribution to Install

Next you will be asked to choose which distribution you want to install (see Figure 2.6).

Figure 2.6. Choosing which distribution to install.

If you have a reasonable amount of free hard disk space (at least one gigabyte for a full installation of FreeBSD), I suggest that you select All by highlighting it with the arrow keys and then pressing the spacebar.

You will then be asked if you want to install the FreeBSD ports collection. I strongly suggest you select Yes here because this will allow you to install additional software very easily later on. We will see how to do this in a later hour.

Next, you will be ...

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