From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 16 10:59:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail3.registeredsite.com (mail3.registeredsite.com [64.224.9.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3AF737B40A for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 10:59:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from todd@counterman.net) Received: from mail.counterman.net (mail.counterman.net [209.35.0.129]) by mail3.registeredsite.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f7GH0lH26875 for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 13:00:49 -0400 Received: from todd [209.35.0.129] by mail.counterman.net (SMTPD32-6.06) id A9F02D011A; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 13:59:12 -0400 Message-ID: <000c01c1267d$036988e0$0400005a@dsl.gtei.net> From: "Todd" To: Subject: Fw: installation trouble Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 10:58:10 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0009_01C12642.568D91A0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0009_01C12642.568D91A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Todd=20 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org=20 Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 10:54 AM Subject: installation trouble Hello, Last night I installed FreeBSD 4.2 onto my computer. The installation = seemed to go well until after the first boot. When prompted to login we = entered the user name and then the password and got the prompt. We can't = seem to "startx". I tried all the different commands and the reply is = "bad or missing command". The only command I could get to work was the = "add user". I went back to the packages and selected the ones to do with = x systems. Still no go. Motherboard =3D Soyo duel processor ( running 1 P3 1ghz processor) 2 Maxtor harddrives (master 60gb and slave 40gb) 3Comm ethernet card all in wonder 32mb video card 256 RAM What do I need to do to fix this? marianne Sorry for the repost... forgot to add the version I was trying to = install Sales & Marketing todd@counterman.net www.counterman.net Phone: 800-937-6590 Fax: 805-928-3567 ------=_NextPart_000_0009_01C12642.568D91A0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
----- Original Message -----=20
From: Todd =
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 10:54 AM
Subject: installation trouble

 
Hello,
 
Last night I installed FreeBSD = 4.2 onto my=20 computer. The installation seemed to go well until after the first boot. = When=20 prompted to login we entered the user name and then the password and got = the=20 prompt. We can't seem to "startx". I tried all the different commands = and the=20 reply is "bad or missing command". The only command I could get to work = was the=20 "add user". I went back to the packages and selected the ones to do with = x=20 systems. Still no go.
Motherboard =3D Soyo duel processor ( = running 1 P3=20 1ghz processor)
2 Maxtor harddrives (master = 60gb and slave=20 40gb)
3Comm ethernet card
all in wonder 32mb video = card
256 RAM
 
What do I need to do to fix = this?
 
marianne
Sorry for the repost... forgot to add = the version I=20 was trying to install
 
Sales & Marketing
todd@counterman.net
www.counterman.net
Phone:=20 800-937-6590
Fax: 805-928-3567
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