Installation Guide

Introduction

GhostBSD comes with a Graphical installer called GBI.

After reading this guide, you will know:

• How to make a USB memory stick.

• How to set up a Virtual Machine.

• How to install GhostBSD.

  • How to install GhostBSD using the entire disk drive.

  • How to install alongside other operating system(s).

• Troubleshooting the installer and live media.

Table of Contents

• Getting started
  • Status
  • System requirements
    • Tested hardware
    • Networking hardware
  • Getting an ISO
  • Creating a bootable USB flash drive
  • Virtualization environments
    • QEMU
    • Parallels
    • Proxmox VE
    • VirtualBox
• Full disk installation
  • Starting the GhostBSD live system
  • Using the live system
  • Installing GhostBSD
    • Starting the installer
    • Localization
      • Language
      • Keyboard
      • Time zone
    • Disks and filesystem
      • Installation type
      • Installation disk
    • Boot loader
    • Root password
    • Adding a user
      • Reboot into new installation
• Custom Installation
  • Partitioning schemes
    • MBR
    • GPT
  • File systems
    • UFS
    • OpenZFS
  • Installing GhostBSD
    • Partition Scheme
    • Creating partitions
      • Boot partition
      • Root partition
      • Swap Partition
      • Finishing the installation
• Troubleshooting
  • The live system does not boot.
    • If Secure Boot is enabled, in BIOS settings for your computer, disable it.
    • Your hardware may not be supported.
    • The installation media may be corrupted.
  • The live system does not reach a graphical desktop environment.
    • GhostBSD automated configuration does not support some dual-GPU configurations.
    • …