Notes in the VM image I'm creating:

• i386, 9.0-RC2
• 40 GB HD
• Two network cards (#1 is NAT, #2 is host-only)
• Basic 9.0-RC2 install
• Hostname: “gcin”
• Timezone set to UTC
• root password “gcin”
• Both network interfaces set to DHCP
• vesa_load=“YES” and loader_logo=“orb” in /boot/loader.conf
• sshd, moused, powerd enabled in rc.conf, sendmail_enable=“NONE”
• allscreens_modes=“MODE_276” in /etc/rc.conf
• In ~root/.cshrc (make things a little more user-friendly)
  • setenv PACKAGESITE ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-9-stable/Latest/
  • set prompt=“%B%n@hostname -s%b:%/ %h% ”
  • set autolist=ambiguous
• Packages installed:
  • bash
  • xorg
  • subversion
  • virtualbox-ose-additions
  • docproj
  • gnome2
  • vim
  • emacs
  • nano
  • open-vm-tools???
• xorg configured
• hald, dbus, virtualbox-additions enabled in rc.conf
• User created: gcin (password gcin)
• FreeBSD source checked out as user gcin:
  • mkdir -p gcin2011/stable/9
  • svn co svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/head/ gcin2011/head
  • svn co svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/9 gcin2011/stable/9
  • svn co http://freebsd9-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/branches/gcin2011/doc doc
• chown gcin /usr/src /usr/obj
• “UseDNS no” in /etc/ssh/sshd_config
• /etc/motd updated
• edit /etc/rc to “cat /etc/motd”
• ~gcin/.xinitrc set up to start GNOME

• Clear disk to allow VM to compress better (dd if=/dev/zero of=/file; rm /file)