Let's Try BSD, Part 2 of 7: How I Setup for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFlyBSD

I chose Vultr for this project because it’s easily to spin VMs up and down, and because they make uploading and installing from an ISO easy. And Regular Cloud Compute because in my use cases it’s fast enough.

Let’s Get Cooking

I’ll show you how I setup the FreeBSD system. The same was done for the other operating systems.

Vultr Type

I’m going into this as I would if I was using these systems in my typical hobbyist way. I don’t need dedicated CPUs.

Vultr Location

Nearby at the moment.

Vultr No Thanks

I considered more resources or better CPU but this is how I typically role. No Thanks!

Vultr Image

Uploading an ISO was a bit of trial and error. I was using Dropbox links and that didn’t seem to work, so I just downloaded from the projects’ web sites.

Vultr YOLO

Backups? YOLO BABY!

Vultr features

I did turn on VPC, which creates a private 10.x network, because I’d never played with that at Vultr.

Vultr hostname

Using the legendary lowend.party domain.

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I'm raindog308, techno polymath and long-time LowEndTalk community Administrator. My technical interests include all things Unix, perl, python, golang, shell scripting, vintage operating systems such as MVS, and relational database systems such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.

I also enjoy using LEBs! I have an empire of little guys for VPNs, larger guys for apps, and big guys for databases and storage. When I'm not in front a screen I'm into German Shepherd dogs, quality knives, target shooting, theology, tabletop roleplaying games, and forest hiking.

I enjoy writing technical articles here on LowEndBox to help people get more out of their systems. You can find me on LowEndTalk @raindog308