Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 23:05:37 -0400 From: Todd Stephens <tbstep@tampabay.rr.com> To: John Mascardo <johnmascardo@yahoo.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freeBSD 4.8 Message-ID: <200309112305.37945.tbstep@tampabay.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20030912025036.23425.qmail@web14606.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030912025036.23425.qmail@web14606.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Thursday 11 September 2003 10:50 pm, 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. If it is a full install on a CD included with a magazine, it probably has no passwords set. Just type in a user name (probably "root") and hit enter when prompted for a password. BTW, FreeBSD is not Linux. Go to www.freebsd.org to find out more. -- Todd Stephens
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