Given that this isn't something I do regularly, it's handy to have the commands to hand so I don't have to scroll through man pages trying to remember how to do it.

Clear the disk

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad1 bs=1k count=1

Initialise it

# fdisk -BI ad1

Label it, then edit the labels created

# bsdlabel -B -w ad1s1 auto
# bsdlabel -e ad1s1

Format it with a filesystem

# newfs /dev/ad1s1e

Make directories and mount as appropriate, and you're done!

In a shell, cd to the directory from which you'd like to serve the site, and rename or delete any '.htaccess' or 'index.php' files, and any directories called 'images' or 'files', that may be there.

Checkout the current code:

svn co http://svn.textpattern.com/current/ .

(Note the dot at the end). To complete the installation, just load http://thesiteurl/textpattern/ in a browser, fill in your database info, and when presented with the config.php block, copy it, go back to the shell client and:

nano textpattern/config.php

Paste in the code block, save and exit (ctrl-x, then y, then return).

Back to the browser, click through, add personal details, and that, as they say, is it.

Whenever you want to update to the latest code, cd to the same directory and:

svn update

...and the latest code will be seamlessly integrated with your installation.

Install CVSup

cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup-without-gui
make install distclean

Make and populate the CVSup config file

touch /root/cvsup-stable-src.sup
echo '*default host=cvsup14.us.FreeBSD.org' >> /root/cvsup-stable-src.sup
echo '*default base=/var/db' >> /root/cvsup-stable-src.sup
echo '*default prefix=/usr' >> /root/cvsup-stable-src.sup
echo '*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5' >> /root/cvsup-stable-src.sup
echo '*default delete use-rel-suffix compress' >> /root/cvsup-stable-src.sup
echo ' src-all' >> /root/cvsup-stable-src.sup

Update the /usr/src/ tree

cvsup /root/cvsup-stable-src.sup

Get rid of any old "worlds" and make a new one

rm -rf /usr/obj/usr
cd /usr/src/
make buildworld

Make changes to /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC and name it was what you want.

Build the kernel, install the kernel, verify it and dot.old in /boot/, run mergemaster, and install the new world.

make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC
make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC
mergemaster -p
make installworld
mergemaster
ls -l /boot/
shutdown -r now

Note, we often run in a securelevel of 1 and have immutable binaries in the system folders. You'll need to edit rc.conf.

nano /etc/rc.conf

kern_securelevel_enable="NO"
kern_securelevel="1"

Reboot

shutdown -r now

Then make things mutable

chflags noschg /bin/*
chflags noschg /sbin/*
chflags noschg /bin
chflags noschg /sbin
chflags noschg /usr/bin/*
chflags noschg /usr/sbin/*
chflags noschg /usr/bin
chflags noschg /usr/sbin