From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Apr 25 03:22:09 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CA9DB1B710 for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2016 03:22:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zarniwhoop@ntlworld.com) Received: from know-smtprelay-omc-7.server.virginmedia.net (know-smtprelay-omc-7.server.virginmedia.net [80.0.253.71]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E80661055 for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2016 03:22:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zarniwhoop@ntlworld.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([82.27.143.36]) by know-smtprelay-7-imp with bizsmtp id mTLy1s0050nKdLJ01TLyvf; Mon, 25 Apr 2016 04:20:58 +0100 X-Originating-IP: [82.27.143.36] X-Spam: 0 X-Authority: v=2.1 cv=LvtvsSpc c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=sI0VlXMVYIpMuXrauH8AmA==:117 a=sI0VlXMVYIpMuXrauH8AmA==:17 a=L9H7d07YOLsA:10 a=9cW_t1CCXrUA:10 a=s5jvgZ67dGcA:10 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=kziv93cY1bsA:10 a=uChsZFC9AAAA:8 a=yashrJDmAAAA:8 a=AodUQVTbyC6HspAohg4A:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 Received: by localhost.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 500) id 1421B60736; Mon, 25 Apr 2016 04:20:57 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 04:20:57 +0100 From: Ken Moffat To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (no subject) Message-ID: <20160425032057.GA32513@milliways.localdomain> References: <20160425014410.GC47422@neutralgood.org> <1461549170.22294.0.camel@michaeleichorn.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1461549170.22294.0.camel@michaeleichorn.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.0 (2016-04-01) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 03:22:09 -0000 On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 09:52:50PM -0400, Michael B. Eichorn wrote: > On Sun, 2016-04-24 at 21:44 -0400, Kevin P. Neal wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 03:11:48AM +0200, dewey@posteo.net wrote: > > > > > > I use Linux Mint. I want to try Free BSD. I downloaded the dvr > > > version.  > > > It will not run without a user name and a password. What are these? > > > What  > > > user name and password do I use? > > What "dvr version" of FreeBSD? Where did you download it from? > > At a guess it is a typo of dvd (d and r are close on qwerty). Back in November 14, username 'root' and a blank password (so just ) worked for me on what I noted as a Live CD (although it might have been a DVD). And, as a linux user interested in seeing if my latex test scripts[1] were more generally useful, boy, was running it in a vm fun! That is in the linuxfromscratch testers and editors sense of 'fun' - most people would describe it as painful (partly because of making it work well in qemu, partly because some of the detail is just so different). But definitely a learning experience. Nowadays, I mainly stick around here to (occasionally) learn something useful or interesting - I hate *all* package-management systems violently, and I'm lucky enough to usually have time to build from source - and to remind myself that the grass on the other side of the fence is not always greener ;-) But people should try alternative systems to see if they suit their needs. Oh, and my latex test scripts are fairly minimal, and prefer the current complete release, so like on many linux distros they are not especially useful, but should work if the relevant parts are present. Most people here will not care about this, the link is only for people as crazy as me ;-) Meanwhile, I hope the OP can get it to boot. ĸen [1] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~ken/tex-testfiles/ : they require an installed version of bash (somewhere - found by 'env'), but by the time I had put xfce onto my vm I had pulled that in. -- This email was written using 100% recycled letters.