Terminals are either the default upon boot (tty) or within a graphical environment (xterm, aterm, eterm, etc, installed from the ports colletion (category X11) )
ttys are switched to-fro with the alt-# keys
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A browser can be run "before X" (w3m, links lynx... etc, installed from the ports collection) or "during X" (firefox, seamonkey, opera, etc, installed from the ports collection (category www))
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if that works, you can browse provided you have an internet connection (which took me two entire weeks about back when I first installed, ppp and dialup). (Later discoverd by accident that only two command lines are needed for DSL in some cases, too lazy to configure rc.conf so I recall those from the saved shell history daily. )
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The kernel "comes pre-installed with many many commands" example:
Code:
apropos browser && apropos ifconfig
(if you boot into tcsh, then "zsh" if installed, and history is saved (for example), you can (if set up carefully) simply grep for the command one
used "last year" and save hours not re-learning syntaxes.
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If you have internet access, maybe grep for freebsd install guides which include terms you might use during the
first months (w3m, ifconfig, rc.conf, firewall...) and
print them if possible. (Check maybe also freebsdwiki.net...)
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If I had more time, I could provide links to help with the above. Howsoever...
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Also best to plan for a backup EARLY. (even backing up files you modify to a thumbdrive as you go along). One can
and if one, say,
then one can
Code:
cp -iv /etc/rc.conf /save_files
cp -iv /etc/rc.conf /etc/rc.conf.BAK
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Also write down the procedure somewhere for easily recovering from a panic or unclean shutdown (search on ... "swapon AND fsck" maybe).