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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
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Cc: Rajeev Sharma <rajb366a@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Change to Graphical Mode from DOS Mode
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On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 10:19:26 +0200, Fernando Apestegu=EDa <fernando.apestegu=
ia@gmail.com> wrote:
> FreeBSD is _not_ linux ;)

You're right. A german computer magazine wrote that
FreeBSD is the better Linux. :-)



> > on my PC.  But it starts in DOS Mode.
>=20
> aka "Console" mode.

There is no "DOS mode" in FreeBSD. "Console mode" is
correct, as well as "text mode" or even "terminal mode"
(last one not used very often).



> Once you log in, (use your login name and password), and assuming you
> installed some graphical environment, try to type:
>=20
> startx

Or follow the handbook according to how to install KDE
or Gnome which provide the usual means for a full-featured
graphical environment.

(At this point, I can really recommend reading FreeBSD's
excellent documentation in the handbook and in its FAQ,
to be found on the main web site.)



--=20
Polytropon
>From Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...