Re: Installing DragonFly

[Colin Adams <colinpauladams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, if that is the case the ISO should not be available for download
- there should be a fixed version.

Meanwhile my PC appears to have been broken - I'm not sure if it was
caused by DragonFly or a coincidence.

I get stuck at an initial display after power-up with an intel logo,
And a message:

Press TAB to show POST screen, DEL to enter SETUP, ESC to Enter Boot Menu.

None of these keys produces any response, except sometimes TAB works.
In which case I get a screen telling me the Phoenix AwardBIOS version,
and the CPU and IDE channels, and the same options except for TAB.

Nothing works (except CTRL_ALT_DEL).
:-( :-(

2009/4/8 Sascha Wildner <saw@online.de>:
> Colin Adams schrieb:
>>
>> I'm trying to install from the DVD.
>>
>> When i get to the login prompt, I type installer.
>>
>> Now every screen I come to, I get, in addition to the formatted screens, I
>> get:
>>
>> Login incorrect
>> login:
>>
>> Password:/i386 (dfly-live) (ttyv1)
>>
>> login:
>>
>>
>> It appears I need some kind of password to login as installer. I can't
>> see this in the handbook.
>
> Yea it's a known bug which has been fixed some time ago.
>
> Do the following:
>
> 1) Boot the CD
> 2) Login as root
> 3) Edit /etc/ttys and remove the ttyv1 entry
> 4) kill -1 1
> 5) Logout and relogin as installer
>
> Generally I wouldn't recommend to take the release ISO. 2.2 snapshot is
> better as it has important bug fixes:
>
> http://chlamydia.fs.ei.tum.de/pub/DragonFly/snapshots/i386/LATEST-Release-2.2.iso.bz2
>
> Sascha
>
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