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Old February 24th, 2009, 12:57
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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?
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Old February 24th, 2009, 13:05
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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
[cmd #]Xorg -configure[/cmd] and test it with [cmd #]X -config xorg.conf.new[/cmd]. If X starts, you can copy xorg.conf.new to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and start X with startx.
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Old February 24th, 2009, 13:10
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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
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Start reading the excellent handbook:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO...dbook/x11.html
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