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Date:      Sat, 04 Oct 2003 09:20:28 -0500
From:      "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz>
To:        David Witt <dadolfwitler@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BSD Question
Message-ID:  <3F7ED72C.3040509@daleco.biz>
In-Reply-To: <BAY8-F32alUohIi6YEF00003f66@hotmail.com>
References:  <BAY8-F32alUohIi6YEF00003f66@hotmail.com>

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David Witt wrote:

> I'm a Unix newbie who just installed BSD 5.1.  I made it through the 
> installation without too much of a hassel and I went ahead and added 
> XFree86 in the installation, along with the BSD Boot Manager since I'm 
> dual booting with Windows.  I have a 40 gig HD for Windows then I have 
> 2 separate 120 gig HD raided in 0 config for BSD.  The boot manager is 
> installed with the rest of BSD on the raid but when it loads and I go 
> to pick, both options boot to BSD.  F1 is labeled FreeBSD and F5 is 
> labeled Drive 1, which I was under the illusion should be windows but 
> it turns out its not.


Hmm, what do your drive entries look like in
'dmesg' ?

> When I boot into BSD, it leads me to a text based login screen, how do 
> I get KDE to function.  Thank you in advance.
>
> David Witt 


What happens when you login and issue:

$startx


Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.



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