Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 09:58:39 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Login to FreeBSD Message-ID: <f7176147-4965-0090-700c-9e5ca22a3fa6@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CAFjMaakMwC0W%2BgXQfw6e1bqk%2BXSnVq%2BTqis1JQtztQY=5ik_oA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAFjMaakMwC0W%2BgXQfw6e1bqk%2BXSnVq%2BTqis1JQtztQY=5ik_oA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 28/09/2021 10:08, Luiz Greff wrote: > With the SourceForge's Win32 Disk Imager v0.90, I installed > *"FreeBSD-13.0-Release-i386-memstick.img"* on a flash drive, using a > Pentium 4 / Win Xp-SP3 / 32-bit computer. With the flash drive I installed > FreeBSD on a Hard Drive. All normal, until FreeBSD required Login / > Password and rejected all login attempts. I tried everything. Where did I > go wrong? How can I finally open the FreeBSD working screen? One of the last actions the installer does is to have you set a root password. Remember this password. Then, when the newly installed system boots up and you get to the Login: prompt, type: root (which is the username you want to log in as) You will then get a Password: prompt, where you should type in the root password you set during the installation. What you type here will not be echoed back on the screen; there won't even be asterisks or anything, just blank. So you're typing completely blind. Still, you should be able to type in the password and hit return, at which point either you'll get an error message saying password or username was incorrect, or you'll get to a shell prompt which will end with a '#' character, which is a successful login. Sorry to belabour the obvious a bit there, but I wanted to make sure all bases were covered. Be aware that both the username and password are case sensitive, so check your caps-lock key... It is also possible to have space characters in a password, that you will need to type in -- unlike many text entry fields, additional space characters do not get automatically trimmed. If you're expecting a graphical user interface to start up, then I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed: the standard FreeBSD installer doesn't assume that is what you want and set it up for you. The handbook describes what you will need to do next in order to get a graphical interface working. Or you could use one of the desktop oriented FreeBSD-based distributions like NomadBSD instead. (These are pretty much the standard BSD base with a bunch of other software installed and automatically configured to make them usable as a desktop system from the start.) Cheers, Matthew
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