At least output of dmesg, pciconf and probably pictures of those debugger output will be fine.
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Ivan Uemlianin <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear All > > I am installing DragonFly BSD onto a Thinkpad X60. Actually, I have > installed it, but perhaps not correctly. Below are my symptoms. Please can > anybody help with any of them? > > Some background: I am fairly familiar with Unix-like operating systems > (long time fan of Debian GNU/Linux; currently using MacOS X), but I don't > have a sysadmin background. One of my reasons for installing DragonFly BSD > is to learn. I plan to blog as I go (e.g., I've just written a note on > getting the image onto a USB stick: > http://llaisdy.wordpress.com/2011/05/06/dragonfly-bsd-copying-the-image-onto-a-usb-stick-under-macos-x/). > > I installed dfly-i386-gui-2.10.1_REL.img from a USB stick. > > Symptoms: > > Major: > > 1. After the post-installation configuration step, I chose reboot. While > rebooting, the system seemed to crash and I ended up inside a debugger. > However, after a successful shutdown and reboot, the system seemed to run > OK. > > 2. During configuration dhcp seemed to find the network (at least, a > dialogue appeared, giving me some info ending with "Status: Active"), but > after I'd rebooted into X and launched Firefox, Firefox could not find > external urls. So, perhaps dhcp didn't work and I should configure the > network manually. > > 3. The window manager is TWM. On exiting TWM, the screen froze and didn't > return me to the console. I had to go to another console and kill X > manually. > > Minor: > > 4. I don't think I set the correct keyboard map (and/or screen map?). Most > of the keyboard works as it should, but shift-3 does not produce the > expected "£" --- it doesn't produce anything, so maybe the keyboard map is > OK but the screen map is wrong? > > 5. I was expecting FVWM as the window manager: I thought the docs said that > was the default. Presumably I can change the window manager. Should it have > been FVWM? Is the fact that I got TWM instead a symptom that some config > was wrong? > > All in all, it doesn't look very healthy. Can anybody indicate what might > have gone wrong? Or, if I re-install, what signals I should be looking out > for? > > With thanks and best wishes > > Ivan > > > -- > ============================================================ > Ivan A. Uemlianin > Speech Technology Research and Development > > [email protected] > www.llaisdy.com > llaisdy.wordpress.com > www.linkedin.com/in/ivanuemlianin > > "Froh, froh! Wie seine Sonnen, seine Sonnen fliegen" > (Schiller, Beethoven) > ============================================================ >
