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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.cc.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!howland.erols.net!ix.netcom.com!news From: Mike Baysek <mbaysek@iname.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: I can't login Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 13:33:20 -0400 Organization: Netcom Lines: 28 Message-ID: <33C51CDF.E50B11E7@iname.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pit-pa1-03.ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-NETCOM-Date: Thu Jul 10 10:35:23 AM PDT 1997 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; I) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44223 I am very much of a novice when it comes to FreeBSD. In fact i installed it last night over the internet. As of current, I do not have a book, although i do plan on getting one shortly. NOW TO GET TO THE POINT: i cannot get passed the login screen that comes up when i boot my computer. i do not know what to do. this is what the screen says: FreeBSD (myname.my.domain) (ttyv0) login: it refuses anything i type. in fact i do not even know what i should be typing. also when I hit alt-F2, a similar login screen comes up, whose only difference is that it says (ttyv1) instead of (ttyv0) as in the other login screen. somebody please help me out here, so I can get into my computer. thanks. -mike please send your reply also to my email address at mbaysek@iname.com