From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 28 18:27:03 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 B43D31065672 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:27:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout023.mac.com (asmtpout023.mac.com [17.148.16.98]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C6908FC0A for ; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:27:03 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.209.4.71]) by asmtp023.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0L9G00A70Z8RO370@asmtp023.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:26:52 -0700 (PDT) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=6.0.2-1004200000 definitions=main-1009280126 X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.0.10011,1.0.148,0.0.0000 definitions=2010-09-28_11:2010-09-28, 2010-09-28, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:25:51 -0700 Message-id: References: To: William Lang X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org 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 18:27:03 -0000 On Sep 28, 2010, at 10:52 AM, 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??? You're at a Unix shell prompt. I suspect the resources here will be helpful: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/new-users/article.html Regards, -- -Chuck