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Date:      Mon, 3 Mar 1997 23:29:51 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Poly Auto Spare Parts Co. LTD." <polyauto@emirates.net.ae>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Login 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970303232809.21192N-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.16.19970303225257.1eb75ce2@emirates.net.ae>

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On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Poly Auto Spare Parts Co. LTD. wrote:

Looks like you missed the post-install setup.

> What default username we have to enter and what password we have to use. 

the default user is 'root' with no password (unless you set one during
setup).

> I
> reboot the system from the floppy and tried to run the program host password
> : nothing happened on screen, I coudn't run the program.
> Can you inform me how to correct the errors mentioned above, and how can I
> login? and suppose I don't know the password, how can I dismount the system?

Edit /etc/sysconfig and change the 'hostname' item to be the name of your
machine.

Use the command 

`ee /etc/sysconfig'

to do this.

> Do you have any book name where I can find all the features of FreeBSD?

You can pick up "The Complete FreeBSD" from Walnut Creek CDROM
(http://www.cdrom.com); also see the Handbook at http://www.freebsd.org on
the Web. 

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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