FreeBSD-14.3 qcow2 images readme

FreeBSD-14.3 qcow2 images readme

Updated 12-07-2025
FreeBSD-14.3-p5-vps-ufs-12072025.qcow2
Updated 12-07-2025
FreeBSD-14.3-p5-vps-zfs-12072025.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.

Upload FreeBSD-14.3-p5-vps-ufs-12072025.qcow2 or FreeBSD-14.3-p5-vps-zfs-12072025.qcow2 to your VPS provider
as a custom image.

Install it to a server at your VPS provider.

VNC to the server with the VNC address given to you by your provider.

Log on to your server with:
```
user: root
password: slacker
```

Change the password to something more secure with:
```
passwd
```

Add a user to login to your server with:
```
adduser
```
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*. I use "mc -u" to edit files. It's way faster and easier.
Now reboot, and login with PuTTY to finish the setup.

Set your hostname:
```
sysrc hostname="mail.example.org"
```

Set your timezone:
```
tzsetup
```

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.

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 
127.0.0.1 localhost" > /etc/hosts
```

Resize the 10GB partition on the ufs or zfs filesystems to the full size of the drive it's on by:
```
gpart recover da0
gpart resize -i 2 da0
service growfs onestart
df -h
```
Note: *You won't lose any data by resizing in this way*
You should now be using the full disk on your FreeBSD VPS.
Do a FreeBSD system update and upgrade:
```
pkg update
pkg upgrade
freebsd-update fetch
freebsd-update install
```
Now do a reboot to make sure all the above changes are made:
```
reboot
```

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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