Re: First Time User

From: Kevin Kinsey (kdk_at_daleco.biz)
Date: 05/25/04

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    Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 16:48:01 -0500
To: allegros2 <allegro@megahydrogen.com>

    allegros2 wrote:

    >I have installed FreeBSD from CD; I boot to it via a BM from
    >Paragon. It boots to Login: then after I lof=g in, I get a
    >promtp$. Why am I in textmode? how do I get a GUI? Thanks
    >F
    >
    >

    Hello,

    Please direct technical questions to the questions
    mailing list, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org.

    The list charter for "newbies" doesn't really
    allow for technical questions.

    The answer to your question, though;

    a. Because a base install does not include a windowing
    system. Not every computer needs one.

    b. --- "install one" ;-)

    Have you read any of the Handbook yet?

    www.freebsd.org/handbook

    IIRC, Chapter 5 talks about the "X window system",
    which is what you'll want, I expect. (It's generally
    what is used in FBSD....)

    HAND,

    Kevin Kinsey
    DaleCo, S.P.
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