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**NOTE:** Before proceeding, ensure that the machine you will use as your ops server is properly connected to your network and that all of the required software is available either through the network or some other media.
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Boot the FreeBSD installation CD on the machine you will use as your ops
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server. You will want to do an "Install" and then select your keymap and
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hostname. When it asks about optional components, only select "lib32" and
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"src", you do not want "ports" since you will be loading pre-built packages
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from Emulab.
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Boot the FreeBSD installation CD on the machine you will use as your `ops` server. You will want to do an "Install" and then select your keymap and hostname. When it asks about optional components, only select "lib32" and "src", you do not want "ports" since you will be loading pre-built packages from Emulab.
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Next it will ask you about partitioning. There are a variety of ways to partition disk space depending on how many disks the server has and whether you might want to enforce space quotas.
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Next it will ask you about disk partitioning. There are a variety of ways to partition disk space depending on how many disks the server has and whether you might want to enforce space quotas. For now, just create a single partition in which to install the base system, other partitions will be created as needed later.
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From the menu choose "Auto (UFS)", and then "Entire Disk", confirm erasing the disk and then choose either MBR or GPT. If your disk is over 2TB, select GPT. At this point it will want you to review the partitioning. You will need to shrink the "/" partition to a smaller size. Move down to the entry with mountpoint "/" (probably "ada0s1a") and choose "Modify".
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An Emulab install has several directory hierarchies that it uses:
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