From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 28 18:25:12 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD6C41065670 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:25:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from FreeBSD@insightbb.com) Received: from mxsf11.insightbb.com (mxsf11.insightbb.com [74.128.0.93]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 892B38FC16 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:25:12 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.57,248,1283745600"; d="scan'208";a="213474003" Received: from unknown (HELO asav01.insightbb.com) ([172.31.249.123]) by mxsf11.insightbb.com with ESMTP; 28 Sep 2010 14:25:11 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AnAvANrPoUxKgCiCO2dsb2JhbACiHQwBAQEBNS3MboMECAEJgi4EiU4 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.57,248,1283745600"; d="scan'208";a="286487652" Received: from 74-128-40-130.dhcp.insightbb.com (HELO laptop2.stevenfriedrich.org) ([74.128.40.130]) by asavout01.insightbb.com with ESMTP; 28 Sep 2010 14:25:11 -0400 From: Steven Friedrich To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, William Lang Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:25:13 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.1-RELEASE; KDE/4.5.1; i386; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201009281425.14417.FreeBSD@insightbb.com> Cc: Subject: Re: Booting up FreeBSD 8.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:25:12 -0000 On Tuesday 28 September 2010 1:52:56 pm William Lang wrote: > I have just installed FreeBSD 8.0 and after I login it stops at $ like its > waiting for me to put some type of information in or something. So what do > I put after the dollar sign??? > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" You haven't indicated what your level of expertise is with unix in general, what other software you have installed, or what your goals are. Have you added additional user IDs to the system or just root? If you're logged in as root, I wouldn't rn X from that account, though it may be sfe these days, I don't kow. I'd create another userID, perhaps admin, and assign it to group wheel. This group wil allow you to su root when you need the authority. If you're logged in as a non-root user, such as admin (which doesn't exist unless yo add it), then try startx. -- System Name: laptop2.StevenFriedrich.org Hardware: 2.80GHz Intel Pentium 4 (HTT) with 2 GB memory OS version: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE i386 (6.9 MB kernel) manager(s): kde4-4.5.1 X windows: xorg-7.5 X.Org X Server 1.7.5