From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 12 12:28:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA06468 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 12:28:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA06373 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 12:28:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA00529; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 12:27:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 12:27:53 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: James Fitness cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: first time install..HELP In-Reply-To: <34696A80.58D754C8@datascribe.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, James Fitness wrote: > Have just installed FreeBSB for the first time. (ver 2.2.5) finally got > it to install over ftp via our wingate proxy ftp to internet, choose to > install all (except games), all went well...but when system reboots > (with no apparent error messages) it wants a login and password? cant > find any reference to this anywhere? Didn't set myself any login or > passwords during install? (Wasn't asked too?) Login as `root', no password, then run `adduser' and make an account for yourself. > Help, where to next. (probably a stupid question....but, got me stumped > anyway) It's a FAQ, that's for sure ;-) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major