# Chapter 2 Installation from CD 

This document describes the installation of DragonFly BSD. This process uses a bootable DragonFly CD, usually referred to as a 'live CD'.  This CD is available at one of the current mirrors, which distribute the images by various protocols. The authorative list can be found at the [DragonFly website](http://www.dragonflybsd.org/download/).


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## First steps 



Upon booting, you see the following screen:

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As you can see, it gives you the option of logging in as `root` to run the live CD and play around or logging in as `installer` to install DragonFly to your hard drive. 

Log in as `installer`. You will then see the following screen:

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## Set up Disk for Installation 

Note the warning to backup important data. Things can always go wrong and if, for example, you have another partition with important files, a mistype or other error might lose all the information on that partition. Assuming this is done, or that you aren't worried about other data on the machine, again, select install DragonFly BSD and you will be taken to the next screen:

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If you have multiple disks installed, chose one where you want to install DragonFly.  We chose `da0` here.

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After selecting the disk we need to decide how much of the disk we want to use.  We choose to use the entire disk and see the next screen.  Now we can chose between the two file systems on DragonFly.  HAMMER is the brand-new file system with a big number of features like snapshots, history tracking, mirroring etc.  UFS is the old BSD file system.
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We select HAMMER and see now the following screen:

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The screen (shown above) gives the default partition scheme for this drive. As the screen says, the * indicates that it will use remainder of the disk.  If you chose HAMMER as your file system there is no need to change the default settings.  One swap partition is created and the remaining space is assigned to the root partition.  The installer will automatically add sub-partitions (called Pseudo File Systems (PFS) in HAMMER) for /home, /usr, /var, /var/crash, /var/tmp and /tmp for you.  If you want to get more information about HAMMER, have a look in the man page.





## Install to Disk 

The following steps show how DragonFly can be installed to your hard disk:

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Depending on your hardware installing DragonFly will take some time. Once installation is complete, you are given an option to install bootblocks. Note that if you are installing bootblocks and the DragonFly installation is above the 1024th cylinder (approximately 8 gigs) accept the default of having packet mode selected:

<img src="http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~alexh/images/12.png"/>
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Next, we are given an option to configure the system or reboot:

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## Set up your system 


The following menu of the installer allows you to configure your previously installed system.

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This includes setting a password for your `root` account:

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Be sure to select the correct keyboard map for your system, and configure a hostname.


### Add a new user 

To perform your daily work, it is recommended to work as an unprivileged user.  Use the following screen to create such an account.  If you want to allow your user to use [su(1)](http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=su&section1), also add him to the `wheel` group:

<img src="http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~alexh/images/16.png"/>
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### Configure the Network 

The next screen allows you to setup your network.  The installed card seen here is an Intel Ethernet 1000 powered by [em(4)](http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=em&section4):

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After finishing your configuration you can escape into a live shell or reboot the system into your installation.