Mention different types of installation images. This is still rather

brief, but should at least point people in the right direction.

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<indexterm><primary>installation</primary></indexterm>
<para>Beginning with &os;&nbsp;9.0-RELEASE, &os; provides an easy
to use, text-based installation
program named <application>bsdinstall</application>. This
chapter describes how to install &os; using
<para>There are several different ways of getting &os; to run,
depending on the environment. Those are:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Virtual Machine images, to download and
import on a virtual environment of choice.
These can be downloaded from the
<link xlink:href="https://www.freebsd.org/where.html">Download FreeBSD</link>
page. There are images for KVM (<quote>qcow2</quote>),
VMWare (<quote>vmdk</quote>), Hyper-V (<quote>vhd</quote>),
and raw device images that are universally supported.
These are not installation images, but rather the
preconfigured (<quote>already installed</quote>) instances,
ready to run and perform post-installation tasks.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Virtual Machine images available at Amazon's
<link xlink:href="https://aws.amazon.com/mp/solutions/freebsd/">AWS Marketplace</link>,
<link xlink:href="https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps?search=freebsd&amp;page=1">Microsoft Azure Marketplace</link>,
and <link xlink:href="https://console.cloud.google.com/launcher/details/freebsd-cloud/freebsd-11">Google Cloud Platform</link>,
to run on their respective hosting services.
For more information on deploying &os;
on Azure please consult the relevant chapter in the
<link xlink:href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/freebsd-intro-on-azure">Azure Documentation</link>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>SD card images, for embedded systems such
as Raspberry Pi or BeagleBone Black. These can be
downloaded from the
<link xlink:href="https://www.freebsd.org/where.html">Download FreeBSD</link>
page. These files must be uncompressed and written
as a raw image to an SD card, from which the board will
then boot.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Installation images, to install &os; on
a hard drive for the usual desktop, laptop, or server
systems.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>The rest of this chapter describes the fourth case,
explaining how to install &os; using the text-based
installation program named
<application>bsdinstall</application>.</para>
<para>In general, the installation instructions in this chapter