live usb failed

kev07

kev07

I got
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/r...GES/9.0/FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img

I put it on a bootable usb with usb-imagewriter

I booted from the usb, when I selected Live CD I got error saying:
Code: 
/etc/motd is not writable, update failed.
Then it asked me to login (but I don't know the name or password to login and have never set one.

My computer is:
Compaq CQ57-410TU XC7973 Presario notebook 802.11 b / g / n
02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (rev 01)

Please help.
 
kev07 said:
Then it asked me to login (but I don't know the name or password to login and have never set one.
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Just a guess, root and no password.
 
No, that didn't work. All I got was a shell and I don't know what command to issue to get the wm or desktop environment going.
 
I suggest you install something like VMWare or VirtualBox and install FreeBSD in there. That would allow you to play around with it without touching your current setup.

You may also want to check out PC-BSD, if I'm not mistaken they do have a live CD with all the bells and whistles.
 
Hmmm, I might try something else. When I tried to actually do an install, that also failed. My computer is not very powerful. Thanks for you help though and suggestions.
 
And if you install by hand you don't need the installer at all. Just unpack everything.
 
Yes, finally I unpacked necessary files. But I'm not familiar with FreeBSD so such install takes significant amount of time. My point was that wiki should reflect current steps to install
 
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