I completely understand your point and agree. To my 'defense' (wrong word really, because I don't feel like your comment was meant in a bad way at all) I can say that I simply expected a dragonfly.iso working out of the box on a virtual machine.
My intention was of course to take a look at a DragonFly desktop and see if I like it. Having to know stuff about networks, DHCP and such is beyond my pc-knowledge. I would of course be willing to learn stuff by myself, from the documentation, once I decided DFly is for me. Tuesday I'm expecting a visit from a friend to help out with some hardware issues - he has used DragonFly before, so if he can spare the time I'll ask him to help out. Thanks again everybody for being so helpfull and especially patient :-) Ludo www.potingue.be On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 5:01 PM, John Marino <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/29/2014 16:44, Ludo Beckers wrote: > > ping: cannot resolve avalon.dragonflybsd.org > > <http://avalon.dragonflybsd.org>: Host name lookup failure > > So... fix it, right? > That's why pkg doesn't work. > > I don't know how you set VM up, or if you set up networking when you > installed DragonFly. You could have selected DHCP in the installer and > it would probably be working now. > > Your issues are now past pkg. > But we can't continue doing one step at a time over a mail list. You > are basically expected to look for documentation follow though. In > other words, "Your network isn't set up" is a cue to go find the > networking documentation and set it up. We're just pointing you in the > right direction. > > If you really need step-by-step instructions then doing it over IRC > (#dragonflybsd at EFNET) is better if you can find a kind soul but its a > lot to ask someone so you should really try to learn as much as you can > by yourself and only ask for help when you are really stuck. > > good luck! > John >
