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

success, finally got everything in the correct place. The following is my /etc/rc.conf # for internal wifi card if_iwlwifi_load="YES" legal.intel.license_ack=1 wlans_iwlwifi0="wlan0" ifconfig_wlan0="WPA SYNCDHCP" create_args_wlan0="wlanmode sta regdomain FCC countr...

followed the above instructions, still no WiFI. this what I seem in dmesg; iwlwifi0: <iwlwifi> mem 0x9133c000-0x9133ffff at device 20.3 on pci0 iwlwifi0: could not load firmware image 'iwlwifi-QuZ-a0-hr-b0-67.ucode' iwlwifi0: File size way too small! iwlwifi0: could not load firmware image 'iwlwifi-...