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Clustering as a long-term goal.

DragonFly BSD has been on my radar for a very long time now.

Unfortunately, I haven’t had any success with it.

• Dragonfly CDs are ‘live’.
• http://www.dragonflydigest.com/

• mailing list

2013-12-06 – 3.6.0 ∞

Tested 2013-12-06 DragonFly BSD 64bit version 3.6.0 – dfly-x86_64-3.6.0_REL

• do I unpack the bz2?

supposedly can use dd to put to usb stick..

file=dfly-x86_64-3.6.0_REL.img.bz2
\bzip2  -dc $file | \dd  of=/dev/mmcblk1  bs=8M

fails to boot past the bootloader..

• liveUSB = log in as root, then startx

• install = log in as installer

2013-01-11 – 3.2.2 ∞

Tested 2013-01-11 DragonFly BSD 64bit GUI version 3.2.2

• The text bootup becomes bright white, but should stay grey throughout the startup.

• startx – shows that XScreenSaver and fvwm2 are not found.

startx fails with:

xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "dgly-live:0" in "remove" command

I just gave up. The download md5sum was ok, but perhaps the copy to my media was corrupted.

2008-08-03 – 2.0.0 ∞

Doesn’t seem to boot up properly, even in safe mode. Oh well.