Congratulations on installing FreeBSD! This introduction is for people new to both FreeBSD and UNIX®—so it starts with basics. It assumes you are using version 2.0.5 or later of FreeBSD as distributed by FreeBSD.org, your system (for now) has a single user (you)—and you are probably pretty good with DOS/Windows® or OS/2®.
Log in (when you see login:
) as a user you
created during installation or as root
.
(Your FreeBSD installation will already have an account for
root
; who can go anywhere and do anything, including deleting
essential files, so be careful!) The symbols %
and
#
in the following stand for the prompt (yours may
be different), with %
indicating an ordinary user
and #
indicating root
.
To log out (and get a new login:
prompt)
type
#
exit
as often as necessary. Yes, press enter
after commands, and remember that UNIX® is
case-sensitive—exit
, not
EXIT
.
To shut down the machine type
#
/sbin/shutdown -h now
Or to reboot type
#
/sbin/shutdown -r now
or
#
/sbin/reboot
You can also reboot with
Ctrl+Alt+Delete.
Give it a little time to do its work. This is equivalent to
/sbin/reboot
in recent releases of FreeBSD
and is much, much better than hitting the reset button. You
do not want to have to reinstall this thing, do you?
This, and other documents, can be downloaded from http://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/
For questions about FreeBSD, read the
documentation before
contacting <questions@FreeBSD.org>.
For questions about this documentation, e-mail <doc@FreeBSD.org>.