From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 27 6:17:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from p1.cs.ohiou.edu (p1.cs.ohiou.edu [132.235.1.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F239B37B719 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 06:17:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from frussell@p1.cs.ohiou.edu) Received: from localhost (frussell@localhost) by p1.cs.ohiou.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA24516; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 09:17:46 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 09:17:45 -0500 (EST) From: Russell Francis X-Sender: frussell@p1 To: sharon middleton Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installation In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, sharon middleton wrote: > I am really impressed with what I am hearting about the capabilities of FreeBSD Operating System. However when I trying to install the system in my computer I am having problems. For one thing once get the first disk finished; it seems that is the only disk the computer needs. In short when do you use the next disks and is it necessary to use them. Secondly, once I get to the root password and logged in how do I start my GUI . Bare with me, I am just a novice in Unix software, if you could give me an answer on that I think that I could take it from there. Well, I am assuming you have a running system but not quite sure. If that is the case, login as root and the first thing you should do is #man adduser #adduser [some options] then log out! Then log in as your new user and #xinit This should bring up X11 and a window manager choosen during the install if you wish to change it. look at ~/.xinitrc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message