From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 25 04:26:27 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B6798E04 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 04:26:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 789041CCD for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 04:26:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-149-155.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.149.155]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 455FC3CB03; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 05:26:18 +0100 (CET) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id s0P4PsBq004404; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 05:25:54 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 05:25:54 +0100 From: Polytropon To: M V Subject: Re: Message-Id: <20140125052554.d1dd907a.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <1390623216.13279.75096525.21DA4B31@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1390623216.13279.75096525.21DA4B31@webmail.messagingengine.com> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 04:26:27 -0000 On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 20:13:36 -0800, M V wrote: > Hello i hope you can help me, i have downloaded freeBSD ISO 9 and 10 > more than once after burning to a cd than trying to boot into the live > cd they wont they ask for password so i use root, than i get to a root > promt and i dont know what command to use it just stops the live cd > boot process??? >From what you describe, the boot process seems to have finished successfully. You could start an installation from there. Have a look at The FreeBSD Handbook on how to perform the installation, it's really easy: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall.html This documentation does in cover all important steps for a successful installation. For installation, you should use the installation CD #1. You could also use a USB image (so you don't need to burn optical media) or the network installation CD (less stuff to download) if you have an internet connection ("online installation" requires network, while the CD and DVD do not). > would like to try freebsd first In that case, you'd probably be interested in VirtualBSD, which is a preinstalled and preconfigured image for virtualization sofware, so you can run and try it without requiring an actual installation. http://www.virtualbsd.info/ It works with VMware, but can also be used with VirtualBox, if I remember correctly. > i have also tried > installing after installation all i get is like a dos invironment no > graphics of any kind ??? That's correct. Because FreeBSD is a multi-purpose OS, having a graphical interface per default would make it totally useless as a server operating system, because servers usually don't have graphics cards or screens. Most of them don't even have a real keyboard. :-) If you're interested in running FreeBSD as a graphical desktop, try PC-BSD. It comes with an installer targeted at "GUI people" and includes lots of software from the start. http://www.pcbsd.org/ It's interesting that people still confuse seeing text mode display on their machine with "DOS"... :-) > hope you can help me P/S ISO is i386 using on > dell latitude d520 I've also successfully installed and run FreeBSD on that kind of hardware. Note that if you have more than 2 GB RAM and no real needs to intendedly run i386 (32 bit), use amd64 (64 bit). Still both of them should work fine. PS. Please specify a Subject when posting to the mailing list. It's possible that your message could be regarded spam when it doesn't have an obvious topic. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...