One last observation - when DFly started up it said: <To start the installer, login as 'installer'. To just get a shell prompt login as ´root'.>
I assumed 'root' to be chosen as correct; was it supposed to be 'installer'? Some of you may be rolling on the floor by now, laughing at my ignorance on the subject. I interpreted that installer would not be for VM but only meant for actual install on hard drive. I hope you don't get a fit laughing your head off now :-) (my last post on this, seriously) Ludo www.potingue.be On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 5:22 PM, John Marino <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/29/2014 17:17, Ludo Beckers wrote: > > 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. > > It will, if you complete the installation. You obviously either missed > a step or you didn't have the VM set up correctly. > > > > > 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. > > Well, it's still unix. There is a basic set of skills that are needed. > It's a basic chicken-egg problem. How do you get those skills if you > need them to boot the OS? > > Generally there are intro books for that sort of thing, but obviously > not for dragonfly. A lot of a FreeBSD book would be applicable but not > all. > > > > 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 :-) > > No worries. > The expression "God helps those who help themselves." is very applicable > here. :) > > John >
