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allegros2 wrote:

>I have installed FreeBSD from CD; I boot to it via a BM from 
>Paragon.  It boots to Login: then after I lof=g in, I get a 
>promtp$.  Why am I in textmode?  how do I get a GUI? Thanks
>F
>  
>

Hello,

Please direct technical questions to the questions
mailing list, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org.

The list charter for "newbies" doesn't really
allow for technical questions.

The answer to your question, though;

a.  Because a base install does not include a windowing
system.  Not every computer needs one.

b.  --- "install one" ;-)

Have you read any of the Handbook yet?

www.freebsd.org/handbook

IIRC, Chapter 5 talks about the "X window system",
which is what you'll want, I expect.  (It's generally
what is used in FBSD....)

HAND,

Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.