what is on the internal hard drive?

I'm assuming this with EFI of some sort?

look at the #2 post from @ericbsd

Make sure you are using the latest ISO. Initially I missed step and I had issues. I do have it running by following his steps

that network card is new. same as mine.

the driver is new.

check out this thread --> <https://forums.ghostbsd.org/viewtopic.p ... 371#p10371>

sounds like mate crashed.

Can you log out, then drop to a TTY (CTRL F2) log in, and remove the mate directory? This is assuming you log into your home directory

rm -rf .config/mate/

If unsure, then do not try this.

as for the speed, sounds like you need to pick a different repo

my configuration of the wlan1 card, edit as needed

#!/bin/sh

sudo ifconfig wlan1 inet 192.168.1.28 netmask 255.255.255.0
sudo route delete default ; sudo route add default 192.168.1.254

that sounds like the mate-screen saver crashing. I had to go to a TTY and kill "mate-screenaver"

as for the lack of gui, sounds like you rebooted while the system was updating, though that's just speculation.

as for disabling the screensaver, look under the "control panel"

for me, this was plugging it in and it works

<https://www.amazon.com/HornetTek-Mini-W ... B01N7WT9U4>

Try an use VLC and use the "CTRL-D command to try and point to the disc

It should just work.

what does "sudo ifconfig" show

I'm doing a web search
<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/commen ... ar8161101/>
<https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_ ... ?id=230807>

Are you sure that the "-t msdosfs" is correct?

web search <https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/freebsd-a ... mand-line/> shows using the "mount -t cd9660 " command