FreeBSD-14.3 qcow2 images readme

• Updated 10-12-2025
  FreeBSD-14.3-p3-vps-ufs-10122025.qcow2

  Updated 10-12-2025
  FreeBSD-14.3-p3-vps-zfs-10122025.qcow2

  These 2 qcow2 images are from a FreeBSD-14.3 Proxmox VM that's been updated with the latest security patches,
  kernel, needed utlities, and needed perl modules. They've been setup for use with the SlackerMail mail server, or
  you can use them for an easy install of FreeBSD in a VM.

  These images are ready to run, and come with a 10GB / partition that uses the ufs or the zfs filesystem. You can
  enlarge the 10GB / partition to the max of the drive it is on.

1. Upload FreeBSD-14.3-p3-vps-ufs-10122025.qcow2 or FreeBSD-14.3-p3-vps-zfs-10122025.qcow2 to your VPS provider
   as a custom image.
2. Install it to a server at your VPS provider.
3. VNC to the server with the VNC address given to you by your provider.
4. Log on to server with user: "root" and password: "slacker"
5. Change the password to something more secure with the "passwd" command.
6. Change hostname with 'sysrc hostname="mail.example.org"'. Of course change to your actual hostname.
7. Run "tzsetup" to set your timezone.
8. Check what your network adapter is named with the "ifconfig" command. The top listing will be your network adapter, and
   if it doesn't say "vtnet0", then you'll need to edit /etc/pf.conf and /etc/rc.conf, and change "vtnet0" to what your network
   adapter is named.
9. Run the below echo command to set your /etc/hosts file, and of course change to your actual hostname:

   echo "127.0.0.1 mail.example.org mail localhost localhost.localdomain" > /etc/hosts

10. Add a user to login to your server with "adduser", and accept all the defaults except for "Invite user into other groups?" enter
    "wheel". That way you can switch to root with "su - root". If you want to be able to login as root, then edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config
    to allow root login. Then reboot, and login to your server with PuTTY.

    Note: *You can use "vi" or "mc -u" (Midnight Commander) to edit files*

11. Resize the 10GB partition on the ufs or zfs filesystems to the full size of the drive it's on by:
    

    a. "gpart recover da0" - Recover data on da0.
    b. "gpart resize -i 2 da0" - Resize to full capacity of da0.
    c. "service growfs onestart" - Run growfs on da0.
    d. "df -h" - check to see the new size of da0.
    

    Note: *You won't lose any data by resizing in this way*

    You should now be using the full disk on your FreeBSD VPS.

12. Do a FreeBSD system update:

    pkg update
    pkg upgrade
    freebsd-update fetch
    freebsd-update install
    

    If the kernel or any running binaries were updated you'll need to do a reboot.
13. You can now go directly to the SlackerMail-FreeBSD install script.

    The install script isn't ready yet, but until it's ready you can do a manual install. 
    Go here if you want to do a manual install.
    

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