Install problems for DragonFlyBSD 6.4.1

Nelson H. F. Beebe beebe at math.utah.edu
Wed Apr 30 13:32:08 PDT 2025


Antonio Huete Jimenez <tuxillo at quantumachine.net> kindly reports
about the new DragonFlyBSD 6.4.1 release:

>> ...
>> Yeah, there is a bug somewhere when running under a KVM guest where the
>> disk won't report the correct size or dfly won't pick it up correctly.
>> In the installer, if you go back and forth a couple times to wipe out
>> the disk, it will eventually pick up the correct size. Or at least
>> that's how I've been able to bypass it.
>> ...

Thanks for that suggestion!

I'll hold off experimenting with it for a bit, because I've just
responded offlist to another user who had some suggestions that I
tried, and reported back on.

More when I know more ...


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