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Subject: Re: Is Freebsd graphical?
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Doug Lawrence wrote:

> I am very new to anything but Windows and some MAC. I bought a retail
>  box of 4.7 about 2 years ago.It had no printed material.I tried for
>  about a month to get it up and running but I gave up. I was to new.
> I talked to people in my department about how to learn the program
> and they suggested I get Redhat 9 off our UCI mirror site. I have
> done that and have learned a  lot over about  one year.I got a copy
> of 5.2.1 off your site and began again.I have done ok now but have
> questions.I understand what I should be doing to install but areas I
> believe I should select ALL I cann't figure out how to select the all
> choice.One spot I select all and the next screen says no packages
> selected and I cann't backup.This time I am not giving up. Can you
> help me get back on track?  Doug Lawrence
> 

These couple of links, especially the second one, might assist you in
setting up a graphical FreeBSD installation.

http://www.newsforge.com/os/04/01/05/211225.shtml?tid=8&tid=82&tid=94

http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=272

Dave