Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:25:13 -0400 From: Steven Friedrich <FreeBSD@insightbb.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, William Lang <williamlang1@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Booting up FreeBSD 8.0 Message-ID: <201009281425.14417.FreeBSD@insightbb.com> In-Reply-To: <SNT121-DS1371EC5836E506C51D0FA81660@phx.gbl> References: <SNT121-DS1371EC5836E506C51D0FA81660@phx.gbl>
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On Tuesday 28 September 2010 1:52:56 pm William Lang wrote: > I have just installed FreeBSD 8.0 and after I login it stops at $ like its > waiting for me to put some type of information in or something. So what do > I put after the dollar sign??? > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" You haven't indicated what your level of expertise is with unix in general, what other software you have installed, or what your goals are. Have you added additional user IDs to the system or just root? If you're logged in as root, I wouldn't rn X from that account, though it may be sfe these days, I don't kow. I'd create another userID, perhaps admin, and assign it to group wheel. This group wil allow you to su root when you need the authority. If you're logged in as a non-root user, such as admin (which doesn't exist unless yo add it), then try startx. -- System Name: laptop2.StevenFriedrich.org Hardware: 2.80GHz Intel Pentium 4 (HTT) with 2 GB memory OS version: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE i386 (6.9 MB kernel) manager(s): kde4-4.5.1 X windows: xorg-7.5 X.Org X Server 1.7.5
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