From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 22 12:58:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mcqueen.wolfsburg.de (pns.wobline.de [212.68.68.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAC2337B417 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 12:58:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from colt.ncptiddische.net (ppp-217.wobline.de [212.68.69.228]) by mcqueen.wolfsburg.de (8.11.3/8.11.3/tw-20010821) with ESMTP id fAMKwBN29401; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 21:58:11 +0100 Received: from jodie.ncptiddische.net (jodie.ncptiddische.net [192.168.0.2]) by colt.ncptiddische.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fAMKx2t32005; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 21:59:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nils@tisys.org) Received: from jodie.ncptiddische.net (jodie.ncptiddische.net [192.168.0.2]) by jodie.ncptiddische.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fAMKvWr21330; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 21:58:07 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nils@tisys.org) Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 21:57:32 +0100 (CET) From: Nils Holland To: "Anthony D'asero" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ? In-Reply-To: <000801c17391$d4917840$0301a8c0@tonyl0hivzdf57> Message-ID: <20011122215207.L21175-100000@jodie.ncptiddische.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Anthony D'asero wrote: > Hi: I did install the 4.4 version of Linux X86, and after spending 6 hours trying to get thru LOGIN I get a dollar sign, and nothing else. > What do you use this thing for, it does not seem to be able to do any thing. > Please help me understand, I am lost. > Thank you. > Anthony D'asero You may want to enter export PS1="#" That will turn your dollar sign into a #. Hope that helps, Nils Nils Holland Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message