From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 25 15:21:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 028DE16A4CE for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 15:21:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hotmail.com (sea1-f49.sea1.hotmail.com [207.68.163.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF6F443D2D for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 15:21:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from crollins666@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 25 May 2004 15:20:26 -0700 Received: from 216.19.22.118 by sea1fd.sea1.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Tue, 25 May 2004 22:20:26 GMT X-Originating-IP: [216.19.22.118] X-Originating-Email: [crollins666@hotmail.com] X-Sender: crollins666@hotmail.com From: "clayton rollins" To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 22:20:26 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 May 2004 22:20:26.0599 (UTC) FILETIME=[7AD4D770:01C442A6] cc: allegro@megahydrogen.com Subject: RE: First Time User X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 22:21:30 -0000 On May 25, 2004, "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 > Hi F, First off, all technical questions should be asked on freebsd-questions. I'll try to help as much as possible, while staying within the charter for this list, which means that I'm constrained to linking to official doc.s and shouldn't offer advice or answers. If you need help installing X from sysinstall, there is a section here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-post.html Assuming you know that and set up X during install, that same page mentions using 'startx' to start X. If you wish to boot into a graphical environment, several options are available, see: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html#X11-WM-KDE-KDM GDM may be another option, but I can't find official doc.s on that. If you run (t)csh, you might consider adding a command to ~/.login as described in 'man csh'. Regards, Clayton _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself with the new version of MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/