So this is going to be the first of many posts in what will be my FreeBSD server setup and maintenance odyssey. I’ve never administered a FreeBSD Unix based server before let alone solely by the CLI. There will be no GUI involved what-so-ever and only the initial OS install will be done physically at the computer, everything else will be done over SSH.

I’m going to use the minimal boot CD and install over FTP, as I know my network card will be supported out of the box.

Hardware:

Processor: Pentium 4 3.0Ghz “Prescottâ€?
RAM: 512MB Generic DDR3200
Motherboard: MSI PM8M3-V
Hard Drives:
200GB SATA (Main)
120GB IDE (IDE Master)
100GB IDE (IDE Slave)
Other Drives:
8X DVD-RW (Used only for initial installation)

Functionary Goals:

Primary:

• Samba File Server
• - Media Share
• Web Server – Via Apache, PHP and mySQL
• - Support Ticket System
• - Wiki
• - Intranet CMS
• - Local Development
• FTP Server
• - Backup

Secondary:

• Counterstrike: Source Private Server
• Ruby On Rails Development

In the next post I should have a successful installation recap, wish me luck.