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David Witt wrote:

> I'm a Unix newbie who just installed BSD 5.1.  I made it through the 
> installation without too much of a hassel and I went ahead and added 
> XFree86 in the installation, along with the BSD Boot Manager since I'm 
> dual booting with Windows.  I have a 40 gig HD for Windows then I have 
> 2 separate 120 gig HD raided in 0 config for BSD.  The boot manager is 
> installed with the rest of BSD on the raid but when it loads and I go 
> to pick, both options boot to BSD.  F1 is labeled FreeBSD and F5 is 
> labeled Drive 1, which I was under the illusion should be windows but 
> it turns out its not.


Hmm, what do your drive entries look like in
'dmesg' ?

> When I boot into BSD, it leads me to a text based login screen, how do 
> I get KDE to function.  Thank you in advance.
>
> David Witt 


What happens when you login and issue:

$startx


Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.