Installation problem

[JayBMF]

I'm brand spanking new to installing FreeBSD 7.1. I'm using the i386 distribution, and as far as I know I've installed everything correctly. However, whenever the computer boots it simply takes me back to the PROM prompt instead of booting to its GUI. Any suggestions?

[lme@]

What do you mean by "PROM"?
There is no out-of-the box GUI after a FreeBSD installation.
If you have selected the X-User installation option in sysinstall, the easiest way to have a GUI is running
Xorg -configure and test it with X -config xorg.conf.new. If X starts, you can copy xorg.conf.new to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and start X with startx. ;)

[JayBMF]

By PROM I mean the $ prompt. :-x I installed all the packages that were available on the discs I burned. I'm a true newb with FreeBSD. lol

[SirDice]

Start reading the excellent handbook:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html