live-cd

Ludo Beckers lazylew at gmail.com
Thu Mar 20 12:06:50 PDT 2014


I'll give it a go in a VM then, thanks :-)

Ludo
www.potingue.be


On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 12:33 AM, Justin Sherrill <justin at shiningsilence.com
> wrote:

> That's for the GUI images.  We didn't make any for the 3.6 release,
> because the setup script from that is suffering from some neglect, and it's
> better to not have a sortof-kindof GUI release.  I fixed the page to show
> that.
>
> If you install it to disk, even a VM, you can add xorg and various X
> programs using pkg.
>
> (you may need to do this just cause it's been a while since 3.6 came out)
> # cd /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/
> # mv df-releases.conf.sample df-releases.conf
> # pkg upgrade
>
> Then here's a way to get to X
>
> pkg install xorg
> pkg install kde4 (or gnome; I haven't done this part)
>
> You might have to do some fiddling to match your video chipset, depending
> on what it is.  We don't make DragonFly easy, but we do make it neat.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Ludo Beckers <lazylew at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I downloaded
>> dfly-x86_64-3.6.1_REL.iso
>> from https://www.dragonflybsd.org/download/
>> where I read:
>> ...you can login as root and start a GUI with *startx*.
>>
>> I could log in as root, but with startx I got the message Command not
>> found.
>> Is there another way to get to the GUI?
>>
>> I'm not ready to install, just want to try DragonFly with the live-cd for
>> now.
>> Ludo
>>
>>
>
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