Keep ports collection updated using portsnap

We will use the ports collection and do all installations from that. We have choosen to use portsnap as the way to keep the ports library updated.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ports-using.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading-portsnap.html

It seems fairly straight forward and by first look it was much easier than doing it by csup.

Just to go to /usr/ports and execute:

# portsnap fetch
# portsnap extract 

Quick installation post

We will not write how to install FreeBSD as it's simple enough that anyone should be able to do it themselves without much trouble, starting over won't be much of a problem as long as you've documented your steps properly.

With that said here's a guide in swedish on how to do an installation with gnome.

Very long link to guide

Note that we will not install gnome on our server so on step 4 in that guide pick the "minimalistic"option and you will not need a boot manager either since your OSdrive should be the first one.

The handbook is your friend!

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/