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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: myname:
Date: 7 Dec 1995 23:26:40 GMT
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craigt@cdc.net (Craig Thompson) writes:
> I'm new to FreeBSD.  After installing and booting with BootEasy, I 
> logged in as root.  It said to use "su" and not root.  Then I was given 

This means you should log in as a regular user and use su(1) to
temporarily become root.  The messages is clearer in 2.1R.

> a myname: prompt.  Nothing I typed would do anything.

The myname: prompt (ain't it ``myname#'' actually?) means you didn't
configure your host name yet.  It's not a sign of not working
correctly however.

> Any help on this?  I also tried logging in under another account/name I 
> had set up.  Same prompt/same thing.

What exactly doesn't work?  What's the system telling you?  Please
elaborate.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)