Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 07:46:53 -0800 From: Craig Burgess <craig-burgess@home.net> To: Nick Barbarise <barbarin@wholefoods.com> Cc: Matt Gostick <matt@crazylogic.net>, free <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: help- Message-ID: <38B15DED.6157FF4E@home.net> References: <38B1436A.B217DF65@wholefoods.com> <38B14200.ADE19F42@crazylogic.net> <38B15E00.16B52065@wholefoods.com>
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Nick Barbarise wrote: > > actually I ran boot kernel.GENERIC and now i do not know a username nor > password any clue? on anything below or this > please reply to me- Yes, until you build a custom kernel the system will boot the generic one. At the end of file copying (initial installation of FreeBSD) you ought to have been returned to one of the menus which included "post installation" options, which is where you set the manager (root) password, create users and so forth. If you didn't create a user yet, you have only 'root' as a useful user id and if you didn't give root a password there won't be one. This isn't MS-Windows where your control is pretty much limited to desktop colors and icon placement. FreeBSD is a multi-user operating system by design. A multi-user OS has important implications, among them: whoever is "in charge" is responsible for creating user accounts, deciding what users can -- and cannot -- do, and defining system security policies. All of these policies, and more, are up to you as administrator, and every decision you make will have "consequences." It's okay to be a novice but it's important that you learn how things work so that you can avoid "shooting yourself in the foot." Generally you will find people on the FreeBSD list(s) to be helpful. Nobody was born knowing this stuff (regardless of appearances or claims) and if you seem to be learning the ropes people will be willing to provide guidance. I agree with Nick: if you installed the ports, pick which Apache port you want and do 'make install' for it. If you have /usr/ports look in /usr/ports/www for the Apache choices -- and there are several, depending on what you want to do. craig > > Nick Barbarise wrote: > > > > > > I just installed freebsd and now i am at the userpromt disklsla. I can > > > not change directories and or what do I do now to get everything > > > working. > > > > What is a "disklsla"? Why can you not change directories? or I should > > say what happens when you try? do you get a message? If you run the > > command 'pwd'. What directory does it say you are in? > > > > > Also how can I install apache thru ftp? > > > > I think the ports system is the best way to install software. Read > > www.freebsd.org/handbook (the section on the ports system to learn more > > about it). But generally do the following steps. > > > > # cd /usr/ports/www/apache13 > > # make install > > > > presto.. it downloads, builds and installs it for you. > > > > > > > > nick > > > > -- > > Matt Gostick <matt@crazylogic.net> > > http://www.crazylogic.net/~matt -- For a man to truly understand rejection, he must first be ignored by a cat. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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