Trouble installing DragonFly under qemu-kvm

[Karthik Subramanian]

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Karthik Subramanian
<karthik301176 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Sascha Wildner <saw at online.de> wrote:
>> Karthik Subramanian schrieb:
>>>
>>> Hi Folks,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to install DragonFly under qemu, using an ISO (this one's
>>> yesterday's snapshot, I think).
>>>
>>> It boots fine, I'm able to login as root and everything seems to work OK.
>>>
>>> When I try to login as installer, however, I get the following error
>>> message:
>>>
>>> =============
>>> Starting installer. Reading /etc/pfi.conf ...
>>> Unsupported DFUI transport '' .
>>> =============
>>>
>>> It then logs me out.
>>>
>>> Does anybody know of a workaround? This is how I'm invoking qemu:
>>>
>>> qemu -m 512 -smp 1 -enable-kvm -net nic -net user -cdrom
>>> LATEST-i386-master.iso -hda ./df.img -boot d
>>
>> Can you login as root instead and check if the /etc/defaults/pfi.conf file
>> is there? There was an issue on recent ISOs which caused them to not have
>> this file. But it was fixed on the 5th.
>
> Thanks, Sascha.
>
> It turns out that the ISO that I was using is earlier than yesterday's
> snapshot. So yes, it doesn't
> have /etc/defaults/pfi.conf.
>
> I'll download today's snapshot and use that instead.
>
> Karthik.
>

Today's snapshot worked!

Thanks. Sascha.

Karthik.