About "how the GUI should look like after installation!"

[Sherry Zhang]

On 11/2/06, Evans Durandisse <evans000_1999 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I am brand new to unix. I m a beginner student in computer engineering. I
> wanted to install
> freeBSD since there's such a fuss about it. I got the iso images and
> mounted them on a CD with Alcohol 120. I installed freebsd without much
> configuration. I answered 'no' when asked to configure things what could be
> configured later. But I do not know if I installed it right, eventhough I
> tried to follow the instructions from the handbook. When I open my computer,
> after installation, there's the screen that asked if I want to start freebsd
> or dos. So I choose freebsd. Then, I logged in and typed 'startx' to start
> the gui (that's what I should do! right!). Consequently, it'd been loaded. I
> am just seeing four comand shells. That's all I can see! No taskbars! No
> background picture (greying grinded dots: like pixels in a low definition
> image). There're just four squared box (shell). My mouse worked! But there's
> nothing it can be used for. I tried to work myself over that by typing some
> commands. But I don't know that much of the Unix language; so it's been to
> no avail! So my question is should I get this kind of graphic environment?
> or something missing in the installation.
>
>     I have an intel D845GLVA motherboard with a Pent IV, integrated video
> card, Samsung SyncMaster 753DF (maybe it's the hardware). But I didn't get
> any error message for that.
>    Thank you for considering helping! Have a good day!
> Evans
>
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Evans

it seems that every thing works fine!
if you want a desktop enviroment, simply link to the internet, and type
pkg_add -r gnome2
or something else. then without much configuration, you can use the gnome
desktop environment.

please follow the handbook (see /usr/share/doc) and you will be able to
explore more.

Sherry Zhang