FreeBSD 10.2 Install on VMWare

Just testing out FreeBSD, installing on VMWare Fusion 8. I've been looking to move away from Fedora Core on our servers, as it seems to be getting more DE oriented and a lot more experimental. This video does a simple walk through the installation process for FreeBSD 10.2.

A couple things I know I did wrong:
1) I should have added myself to the wheel group when the installer asked what additional groups the user should be added to.
2) I should have also selected csh as the shell instead of sh as csh is more bash like.

Also (this is for me) to move around better
1) switch to root using "su - " command
2) pkg install vim-lite
3) pkg install sudo
4) sudoedit /usr/local/etc/sudoers
5) search for root copy line and change to root to adminusername (or whatever user name the admin has)

When you first run pkg it will warn that it is not install and ask you if you want to install it.

Now the system is starting to look and feel more like what I'm used to :)


Make sure to also edit /etc/sshd/sshd_config and set PermitRootLogin no, and if you're supper paranoid set AllowUsers adminusername