As others have eluded to, FreeBSD does not provide a windows based user
interface after an installation. The graphics you do eventually setup on the
system will be based upon X windows (see www.xfree86.org). Unlike Microsoft,
there are numerous options for graphical windows interfaces that can
it was said:
>I just installed 5.2.1 via download onto cdr media. I left about 10
>gigs
>open for freebsd, and left 9 for my win2000. the dual boot works fine
>on my
>dell laptop, however when i go to load freebsd 5.2.1, i cant get into
>a
>graphical interface. Instead it stays in a "dos-like"
You do have a user interface, just not a graphical one :-)
Anyway,
You have to manually install/configure the desktop environment..
if you have all the cds, run /stand/sysinstall as root, do post
configuration on freebsd, and add the packages needed (mainly X, and your
graphical environment of c
"james heck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just installed 5.2.1 via download onto cdr media. I left about 10 gigs
> open for freebsd, and left 9 for my win2000. the dual boot works fine on my
> dell laptop, however when i go to load freebsd 5.2.1, i cant get into a
> graphical interface. Inste
