Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 14:04:01 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: adoniram hiram <adoniramh@hotmail.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I need help Message-ID: <20011202140401.A7155@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <F6I4z93XAg0pepP1znX00000f60@hotmail.com>; from adoniramh@hotmail.com on Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 12:51:53AM %2B0000 References: <F6I4z93XAg0pepP1znX00000f60@hotmail.com>
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On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 12:51:53AM +0000, adoniram hiram wrote: > Dear Sir > I am a new user of FreeBSD , i just heard of Alternative/Opensource OSes , > stuff like GNU/linux and BSDs , i've only used Microsoft windows before , so > i don't know much about these OSes , i found the FreeBSD 4.4 release in a > CD-ROM of an OpenSource/openware Magazine called LOGIN . I installed FreeBSD > , but when i boot my PC , and after chosing F2 for FreeBSD (since F1 is for > DOS ) , i have Plenty of stuff coming up but at the end i have this : > FreeBSD/i386 (Amnesiac) (ttyv0) > [then i they ask me for Login and Password] > login : The initial login is "root" with no password (unless you entered a password sometime during the installation process). FreeBSD (and UNIX in general) has quite a steep learning-curve, I suggest you have a read thru' the Handbook at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html Welcome! It's a difficult but rewarding world you've come into. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen | To do is to be -- Nietzsche <jonc@chen.org.nz> | To be is to do -- Sartre | Scooby do be do -- Scooby To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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