From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 27 17:40:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA21751 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 17:40:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from w2xo.pgh.pa.us (w2xo.pgh.pa.us [206.210.70.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA21741 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 17:40:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from w2xo.pgh.pa.us (w2xo.pgh.pa.us [206.210.70.5]) by w2xo.pgh.pa.us (8.8.5/8.8.4) with SMTP id UAA05614; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 20:40:01 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3404C8E1.41C67EA6@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 20:40:01 -0400 From: Jim Durham Organization: Dis- X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-970618-SNAP i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: nick CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: References: <1.5.4.32.19970827233419.0067498c@pathway.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk nick wrote: > > I am a new user and would really Like to learn UNIX. > > Last christmas I bought LINUX and couldn't get it to install. > > NOW I purchased the COMPLETE FREEBSD book and CDs. > I did get it to install came to a DOS looking screen with a dollar sign symbol. > BUT COULDN"T DO A THING.... :( > > I loaded everything I could from the list and was expecting X-WINDOWS screen > to look like windows... > > COULD YOU HELP recommend further books, methods of installing, programs, or > something to begin learning FREEBSD .......I really like to learn. > James, You need to supply a little more information. 1. What version of FreeBSD? 2. Did you get a login: and password: prompt and answer them to get to the "$" sign or were you just "dumped" there by the system? You might try typing "dmesg" at the $ prompt, then copy down all of what you see in an e-mail and post it to this list if you want someone to be able to help you. Assumimg that you *did* log in as a user or root and your system is acting normally, then you need to be or become root and run XF86Setup to configure your X window system, then start it with "startx". regards, Jim -- Jim Durham