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

[Joerg Pernfuss]

On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 17:18:05 -0800 (PST)
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.

You need to install a window manager.
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