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Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2014 5:40 am Post subject: Anybody familiar with freebsd?

Hello
So I had an old thinkpad and a pair of freebsd 4.8 given to me by a customer 11 years ago and decided to try it on my laptop.
I've successfully loaded freebsd on a server many years ago and enjoyed this operating system tremendously so I figured I'd give it a shot :)

Only now that its installed, boots up and everything its asking for LOGIN: and PASSWORD: and nothing I mean NOTHING seems to satisfy the requirement Confused

I remember having difficulty with this last time around - however being an old pppbbbrrrttt I don't remember what I did to satisfy this.
Its ready to rock except for this one minor detail...
No I'm not changing to another operating system until this is done, no I am not putting any form of windows on here either its my unix play toy Smile

Thank you in advance Smile

Any login/password suggestions?

Hi Mate,

I've been looking around for a while and i found the following information:

During the installation process a screen will popup asking for your username and password to login with.

However in most cases where you dont need to enter a password or username it will be the following login:
1.
Username: root
Password:

2.
Username: root
Password: root

3.
Username: default
Password:

4.
username: default
Password: default

Currently installing Freebsd myself on vmware/virtualbox to see how it looks like and if its easy to use and if im having the same issue as your having.

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update
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works on commands only if you dont have DKE?
installing it went gdm fast tho, but loading of cmd's takes ages.

Hey thanks! I'll give it a try Smile

I remember a name/password during install of course I don't remember what I put because it took me weeks to get through the kernal config crap to partition the sob

I just followed yt tut