On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 4:17 PM, Bret Busby <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello. > Hi. > > At the web page at > http://www.dragonflybsd.org/download/ > is stated that the iso for dragonflybsd is a LiveCD, and the image is at > > http://mirror-master.dragonflybsd.org/iso-images/dfly-x86_64-4.2.1_REL.iso.bz2 > which is a bz2 file of about 200MB, which I have downloaded. > > I did not see any instructions for dealing with this file, so, is it a > self-extracting iso file, such that the bz2 file is to be written to a > disc, and then the disc with the bz2 file, used for booting, or, is > the file required to be extracted to a directory which is then to be > written to the disc for booting? > > You need to extract it first and then burn the .iso image to a CD and boot with that CD. > Also, with the previous references to the mate GUI, does the iso image > come with mate incorporated into it, so that a user can boot the > LiveCD and thence examine the mate GUI? > No, there is no GUI in that image. In previous releases there was a GUI DVD image, but 4.2 does not have one. > > Thank you in anticipation. > > -- > Bret Busby > Armadale > West Australia > .............. > > "So once you do know what the question actually is, > you'll know what the answer means." > - Deep Thought, > Chapter 28 of Book 1 of > "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: > A Trilogy In Four Parts", > written by Douglas Adams, > published by Pan Books, 1992 > > .................................................... >
