On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:40, brlcad <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Tom! > > Finally got a chance to review the image. My first attempt two days ago > filled up my laptop so I had to make other arrangements.. :) > > That said, overall I love it! I did have a few comments and suggestions, > but didn't see anything major other than a networking failure on import. > Below are my notes. > > Cheers! > Sean > > === VM NOTES === > > After importing image, got following error message from VirtualBox: > > Failed to open a session for the virtual machine > BRL-CAD_X.Y.Z_ubuntu_10.04_LTS_x86. > Failed to open/create the internal network 'HostInterfaceNetworking-Realtek > RTL8168D/8111D Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.20)' > (VERR_INTNET_FLT_IF_NOT_FOUND). > Failed to attach the network LUN (VERR_INTNET_FLT_IF_NOT_FOUND). > > Had to go to Network settings, selected Bridged Adapter, type "Intel > PRO/1000 MT Desktop (82540EM)" but networking within the VM still didn't > work.
The only thing I can say is the user has to get the settings right according to his or her hardware. We can say that in the README (and RELEASE-NOTES). > > Displays grub menu on boot -- would be nice to just autoboot to first entry > so no interaction is required. That is for the draft only. The released version is autoboot autologin. > Love the double-console windows on login! Glad you like it. That has been my standard ever since starting Unix/Linux 20 yrs ago, and that is why I probably will leave Ubuntu because they are making it harder and harder to do non-GUI things. Probably will move to Debian (as my server has been for some time). > BRL-CAD logo for Desktop background? New logo would be awesome: > http://brlcad.org/d/node/92 I'll see if I can do that. > Rename "vuser" to "brlcad" or even "BRL-CAD"? Alternatively "caduser" or > similar, but would be nice to leverage our branding. I'll see--may have to start over to do all of that. > Double-clicking brlcad-config.sh prompts run or view, but run does nothing > (confusing). Suggest replacing with a README that introduces the image > (perhaps the same one being used on the downloads page) and includes a Hm, I wasn't expecting a double click--my bad. > simple build walkthrough. We don't want to shelter them from learning the > steps Agree. > Suggest renaming "local-docs" to "Documentation" and include website pdf > docs there. Put Bullet link in an "Other" subdir so it's available but out > of the way, not to be confused with BRL-CAD docs. Will do. > Love the code samples, Got that from yr earlier e-mail. > though I'd suggest some alternates. I'll come up > with a list... > Love the web browser bookmarks. :) Thanks! > Suggest deleting Downloads directory (Firefox will automatically re-add it). WILCO I'm running out of time. I'm on the road and won't be able to do much until I get to my son's house tomorrow evening. But I'll do the best I can. Cheers! -Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel
