Install FreeBSD (Short and Sweet Version)

Part of the "FreeBSD on a Laptop" series. The FreeBSD Handbook has an extensive chapter on installing FreeBSD that covers a wide range of scenarios with descriptions of each possible choice. Its an invaluable resource maintained by volunteer contributors. After performing a few installs, these are my personal notes of steps taken and choices made. A "short and sweet" version of the above Handbook. 1. Start Here Acquire an installation image Prepare the USB installation medium 2. Installation Steps 1. Start Here Throughout this guide, if you see square brackets [] in code blocks, that means the word of code (square brackets included) should be replaced with something else. This is detailed in the instructions before or after the code block. FreeBSD will be installed as the sole operating system on a single disk using the ZFS file system with encryption. A few assumptions: Target device is amd64 architecture using UEFI to boot. Secure boot is disabled on target device. Installation…