From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 5 4:34:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4034437B400 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 04:34:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clientmail.ehsrealtime.com (eris.ehsrealtime.com [213.52.146.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C154843E42 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 04:34:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wayne@penguinpowered.org.uk) Received: from set.ehsrealtime.com ([213.52.146.197]) by clientmail.ehsrealtime.com with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17muuO-000LKx-01; Thu, 05 Sep 2002 12:34:48 +0100 Received: from waynep by set.ehsrealtime.com with local (Exim 3.34 #1) id 17mvrF-0004iK-00; Thu, 05 Sep 2002 12:35:37 +0000 From: Wayne Pascoe To: "Lucien Ginzburg" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bsd installation / running Linux References: Date: 05 Sep 2002 12:35:37 +0000 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lines: 48 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Civil Service) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Lucien Ginzburg" writes: > i'm a new user to bsd and succesfully installed bsd. > After i entered a user password and ID i notice that > the access to the root is denied. What can i do to > remove the ID/ password security (temporarily) without > having to reinstall a complete bsd ? When the machine starts to boot, you get a message to press a key to stop the boot (it's been a while since I rebooted, so I can't remember the exact message). When you hit a key, you get a boot: prompt you should then be able to get up with boot -s to boot and fix this. > As i wanted to install Linux or a compatible (convenient) > graffic interface i did the following : > > $ls /compat > linux > $linux > Linux driver already loaded > /compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig: can't create /etc/ld.so.cache~ > (Permission denied) > $ > > Could you explain me what i have to do ? Linux is a kernel, not a graphic interface. You probably want to install XFree86. You can either install this at install time or from ports by doing cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 make install > To finish with : once bsd was fully installed and bootable > i couldn't use the cdrom anymore to load the additional > packages from cd 3 and cd 4. How do you mean that you could not use the cdrom? When you insert a cd, can you mount the cdrom device (mount /cdrom) ? What error do you receive ? -- - Wayne Pascoe - http://www.penguinpowered.org.uk/wayne/ Win if you can. Lose if you must. But always cheat! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message