Installing DragonFly

[Michael Neumann]

Sascha Wildner wrote:

> 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

It would be nice to build and distribute snapshots of the USB-stick version 
as well. IMHO this is the easiest and most economical way to try out a 
development version of DragonFly.

Regards,

  Michael