This shell script will find the nearest (relative to ping latency) CVSUP server to get your source updates from

Set the following options:

scsi0.virtualDev="vmxlsilogic"
acpi.present="FALSE"
monitor_control.disable_apic="TRUE"

See the following for more information:
http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?forumID=21&threadID=4023&messageID=108752#108752

Once you are to the point of having a vinum partition on the new
disk, create a file with the commands to add the drive and the
subdisk.

Edit your custom kernel under /usr/src/sys/i386/conf, then compile it:

# /usr/src/make buildkernel KERN=MYNAME

where MYNAME is the name of the custom kernel to compile.  After compilation, you install the new kernel with the following:

# /usr/src/make installkernel KERN=MYNAME

If you want to also compile/install new version of the system, you can run the following: