Just installed FreeBSD

[Jerry McAllister]

> 
> Hi, I just installed FreeBSD and I have no clue how to
> run it. I'm sure it's installed right. When I boot,
> and after loginging with both root and/or another
> username, I don't know what to do from there on. How
> do I get gnome or KDE on? Is it supposed to be a
> graphical thing like Windows or Redhat linux? what's
> the command to load the operating system

Hi, 
I rambled on about X and looking at the handbook, etc in another response,
but missed the how to load the OS part.

You don't.  When you have booted the machine, the OS is loaded
and running.   When you log in you get a shell which sets on top
of the OS.   You might then start up an X window manager such as
Afterstep or KDE which is kind of a shell that manages X for you
and then you can open up windows such as xterms which start new
shells for you and you work in the shells.

////jerry