Chapter 4. Booting and Shutting Down FreeBSD

IN THIS CHAPTER

If you’re a Windows or Mac user, you’ll immediately discover some of the basic differences between your accustomed operating system and FreeBSD during your first session. When you first start up FreeBSD, your first view of the system—rather than an elegant or flashy graphical login screen or desktop layout—is a stark-looking command prompt in text mode, where you must log in with your username and password before you can do anything with the system.

This chapter provides a basic overview of the procedures for starting up, logging in to, logging out of, and shutting down your FreeBSD ...

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