Installation problem

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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?
 
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. ;)
 
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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