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Before you start your install, you should have some idea what you want to end up with.

Booting an install image on the i386 and amd64 PC platforms is nothing new to most people. If you are using a floppy disk, simply insert the floppy into the floppy drive and boot the system.

FreeBSD is provided with a text-based, easy to use installation program called sysinstall.

Configuration of various options follows the successful installation. If you previously configured PPP for an FTP install, this screen will not display and can be configured later as described above.

The sysinstall utility is the installation application provided by the FreeBSD Project.

The NetBSD Operating System is a fully functional Open Source UNIX-like operating system derived from the University of California, Berkeley Networking Release 2 (Net/2), 4.4BSD-Lite, and 4.4BSD-Lite2 sources.

To start the installation of NetBSD insert the newly created installation floppy and reboot the computer, or boot from a prepared CD, memory card, USB flash drive, (etc.).

The NetBSD install process includes basic network configuration, which implements a standard workstation setup. This configuration can be extended to take advantage of NetBSD's many networking feature

DragonFly BSD was forked from FreeBSD 4.8 in June of 2003, by Matthew Dillon. The project is "the logical continuation of the FreeBSD 4.x series", as quoted in Matthew Dillon's announcement.

MirOS is available as a BSD flavour which originated as an OpenBSD patchkit, but has grown very much on its own, though still being synchronised with the ongoing development of OpenBSD, thus inheriting most of its good security history.

Darwin is an open source POSIX compliant computer operating system released by Apple Inc. in 2000. It is composed of code developed by Apple, as well as code derived from NEXTSTEP, FreeBSD, and other free software projects.