From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 1 17: 3:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chen.org.nz (tnt1-25.quicksilver.net.nz [202.89.142.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A936837B416 for ; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 17:03:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by chen.org.nz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fB2142D07276; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 14:04:02 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 14:04:01 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: adoniram hiram Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I need help Message-ID: <20011202140401.A7155@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from adoniramh@hotmail.com on Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 12:51:53AM +0000 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 Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 12:51:53AM +0000, adoniram hiram wrote: > Dear Sir > I am a new user of FreeBSD , i just heard of Alternative/Opensource OSes , > stuff like GNU/linux and BSDs , i've only used Microsoft windows before , so > i don't know much about these OSes , i found the FreeBSD 4.4 release in a > CD-ROM of an OpenSource/openware Magazine called LOGIN . I installed FreeBSD > , but when i boot my PC , and after chosing F2 for FreeBSD (since F1 is for > DOS ) , i have Plenty of stuff coming up but at the end i have this : > FreeBSD/i386 (Amnesiac) (ttyv0) > [then i they ask me for Login and Password] > login : The initial login is "root" with no password (unless you entered a password sometime during the installation process). FreeBSD (and UNIX in general) has quite a steep learning-curve, I suggest you have a read thru' the Handbook at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html Welcome! It's a difficult but rewarding world you've come into. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen | To do is to be -- Nietzsche | To be is to do -- Sartre | Scooby do be do -- Scooby To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message