From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 11 20:01:14 2003 Return-Path: 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 4A5A816A4BF for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 20:01:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp803.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp803.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.168.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8112C4400B for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 20:01:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lists@dlfws.net) Received: from adsl-63-204-250-109.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net (HELO dlfws.net) (the?freak@sbcglobal.net@63.204.250.109 with plain) by smtp-sbc-v1.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 12 Sep 2003 03:01:13 -0000 Message-ID: <3F6136F6.6060401@dlfws.net> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 20:01:10 -0700 From: Thanatos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030901 Thunderbird/0.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Mascardo References: <20030912025036.23425.qmail@web14606.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030912025036.23425.qmail@web14606.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: freeBSD 4.8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 03:01:14 -0000 John Mascardo wrote: > I am a very-very new LINUX/UNIX user. After being convinced by friends that it is far better and stablethan windows architechture. So I bought the LINUX Format magazine because it offered a full OS called FREEBSD 4.8 > I tried to install it and after a few a attempts I managed to install it atlast but when it started up it asked for a login and password. > I must have missed something along the way because for the life of me I had no clue what was happening on install. I searched the mag and the disc and unfortunately I can't find any login or password detail. I tried typing different stuff but to know avail... > >PLEASE tell me what I'm doing wrong and what I should do... > >CLUELESS JOHN > > > >--------------------------------- >Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo!Messenger >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > Hello John, When I have installed BSD I use root as the username without a password ( just hit enter when prompted for the password ). If that works for you, run passwd on the command line and give yourself a password you can remember :). Hope this helps, Thanatos