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Installing NetBSD 5.0: Screenshots By Chris Duckett, ZDNet.com.au May 13, 2009 URL: http://www.zdnet.com.au/insight/software/soa/Installing-NetBSD-5-0-Screenshots/0,139023769,339296397,00.htm
The NetBSD Project recently released NetBSD 5.0, the 13th major release of its Unix operating system. If you are not familiar with the BSD mentality, it's a back-to-basics approach. Those familiar with Unix environments will find themselves right at home. In this gallery we go from install to running a GNOME desktop in a virtualised VMware instance. This process is console-based. This is the opening screen of a NetBSD install — the first of many textual-based screens to come. We aim to show only the key ones. (Credit: Chris Duckett/ZDNet.com.au) |Just because it is a text install, it does not mean that the process has to be unintelligent. Here the installer makes an entirely correct assumption. (Credit: Chris Duckett/ZDNet.com.au) |We choose the whole hog. Our installation instance was running inside of VMware Fusion; we could not get the install CD to boot inside of the rival VirtualBox even though several machines were able to boot from the CD itself. (Credit: Chris Duckett/ZDNet.com.au) |Who needs a GUI to show disk partitions? (Credit: Chris Duckett/ZDNet.com.au) |Whether textual or graphic, progress bars are a must-have. (Credit: Chris Duckett/ZDNet.com.au) |There are no lack of options to grab the installation sets that NetBSD wants. (Credit: Chris Duckett/ZDNet.com.au) |And here it is: the progress bar. Otherwise known as "coffee and errands" time. (Credit: Chris Duckett/ZDNet.com.au) |Some words of wisdom on using a DES encryption cipher. Interestingly, the Debian project is moving away from SHA1 now. (Credit: Chris Duckett/ZDNet.com.au) |This is where BSD gets nice and old-school. No Bash shell for you! (Credit: Chris Duckett/ZDNet.com.au) |After completing the install and resetting your machine, this is the boot screen that is presented. (Credit: Chris Duckett/ZDNet.com.au) |Nothing is graphical by default in NetBSD. This is the result of the first log-in to NetBSD. (Credit: Chris Duckett/ZDNet.com.au) |Here are two lines you will need to install software post-install. The (Credit: Chris Duckett/ZDNet.com.au) |After much pain, anguish and gnashing of teeth, we finally can see a standard GNOME desktop. (Credit: Chris Duckett/ZDNet.com.au) |Just because it is NetBSD does not mean that software is dated; here we are running GNOME's latest major release. (Credit: Chris Duckett/ZDNet.com.au)
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