From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 2 01:41:11 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 823B916A40F for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 01:41:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from elessar@bsdforen.de) Received: from mail.bsdforen.de (bsdforen.de [212.204.60.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3A7343D66 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 01:41:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from elessar@bsdforen.de) Received: from localhost (mail [127.0.0.12]) by mail.bsdforen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F9124241C6; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 02:41:09 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at bsdforen.de Received: from mail.bsdforen.de ([127.0.0.12]) by localhost (mail.bsdforen.de [127.0.0.12]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id EKgjK1OqVZ2F; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 02:41:08 +0100 (CET) Received: from loki.starkstrom.lan (p549CE173.dip.t-dialin.net [84.156.225.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.bsdforen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A58B4241C2; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 02:41:03 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 02:40:53 +0100 From: Joerg Pernfuss To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20061102024053.0fc68d78@loki.starkstrom.lan> In-Reply-To: <20061102011805.88918.qmail@web60523.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20061102011805.88918.qmail@web60523.mail.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.5.2 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_NYMBgSS2RDHGJFNikNlg.2a; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 Cc: Evans Durandisse Subject: Re: About "how the GUI should look like after installation!" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 01:41:11 -0000 --Sig_NYMBgSS2RDHGJFNikNlg.2a Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 17:18:05 -0800 (PST) Evans Durandisse wrote: > I am brand new to unix. I m a beginner student in computer > engineering. I wanted to install freeBSD since there's such a fuss > about it. I got the iso images and mounted them on a CD with Alcohol > 120. I installed freebsd without much configuration. I answered 'no' > when asked to configure things what could be configured later. But I > do not know if I installed it right, eventhough I tried to follow the > instructions from the handbook. When I open my computer, after > installation, there's the screen that asked if I want to start > freebsd or dos. So I choose freebsd. Then, I logged in and typed > 'startx' to start the gui (that's what I should do! right!). > Consequently, it'd been loaded. I am just seeing four comand shells. > That's all I can see! No taskbars! No background picture (greying > grinded dots: like pixels in a low definition image). There're just > four squared box (shell). My mouse worked! But there's nothing it can > be used for. I tried to work myself over that by typing some > commands. But I don't know that much of the Unix language; so it's > been to no avail! So my question is should I get this kind of graphic > environment? or something missing in the installation. You need to install a window manager. --=20 | /"\ ASCII ribbon | GnuPG Key ID | e86d b753 3deb e749 6c3a | | \ / campaign against | 0xbbcaad24 | 5706 1f7d 6cfd bbca ad24 | | X HTML in email | .the next sentence is true. | | / \ and news | .the previous sentence was a lie. | --Sig_NYMBgSS2RDHGJFNikNlg.2a Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFSUylH31s/bvKrSQRAjOMAJ9+k0DO8T4hjOFQ2YT4ufiASx0qpgCfQNTa CwBN6FvKNcTUmjJmK4iMiTI= =zJs1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_NYMBgSS2RDHGJFNikNlg.2a--