Got this scrambled graphics screen. Going to try text install. Sent from my iPhone
> On Apr 22, 2021, at 11:54 AM, Judah Richardson <judahrichard...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 10:20 AM Richard L. Hamilton <rlha...@smart.net> > wrote: > >> I don't reinstall from an image, but run pkg update almost daily, and have >> rarely (maybe once, a long time ago) run into anything that didn't boot >> properly again (such that I had to boot an older BE and get rid of the >> failed one). > > This has been my experience running OI Hipster on a Dell OptiPlex 390 MT > <https://github.com/jdrch/Hardware/blob/master/Dell%20OptiPlex%20390%20MT.md> > (specs and config at link) with legacy boot. Aside from the initial > installation challenges and some instability running with 8 GB (upgrading > to 16 GB fixed that) RAM, I haven't experienced any bugs that prevent OI > from running or booting smoothly. I update pkg and pkgin at least once a > month (usually coinciding with Patch Tuesday), which is also the only time > I ever have to reboot (solely to move to the new BE). > > In addition to OI, I run Debian, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, Windows 10 (2 release > channels), and Raspberry Pi OS all on bare metal. Although the lack of > package support/availability limits its usefulness relative to the other > OSes for my workflow, OI has been the most stable and reliable of the > bunch. In fact, I frequently use OI's out of the box integrated DE as a > model for FreeBSD to follow. > > I track issues with my OS installations on GitHub > <https://github.com/jdrch/Hardware/issues>, and currently of the 19 open, only > 1 is an OI issue <https://github.com/jdrch/Hardware/issues/93>. That issue > is one I theoretically have the solution to, but haven't had time to > implement (plus thanks to the magic of DHCP IP address lease renewal, it's > easy to work around.) > > That's as VirtualBox guests (usually current VirtualBox, except that right >> now, 6.1.20 aborted VMs on startup, so I reverted to 6.1.18 and its >> extension pack, which is fine), on a macOS host (currently Mojave). >> >> root@openindiana:~# uname -a;cat /etc/release >> SunOS openindiana 5.11 illumos-64b8fdd9a2 i86pc i386 i86pc >> OpenIndiana Hipster 2020.10 (powered by illumos) >> OpenIndiana Project, part of The Illumos Foundation (C) 2010-2020 >> Use is subject to license terms. >> Assembled 31 October 2020 >> >> >>>> On Apr 22, 2021, at 11:05, John D Groenveld <groenv...@acm.org> wrote: >>> >>> In message <cmm.0.95.0.1619061210.be...@gamma.math.utah.edu>, "Nelson >> H. F. Bee >>> be" writes: >>>> Are openindiana developers on this list willing to post a list of VMs >>>> on which candidate ISO images have been tested before end users try to >>>> install them on physical machines? >>> >>> Using bhyve(5). I was able to install via the >>> OI-hipster-text-20210405.iso. >>> >>> Using VirtualBox with the VBox configure in UEFI mode, I was able to >>> install via that ISO image. >>> >>> Unfortunately using the USB image, OI-hipster-text-20210405.usb, >>> the VM boots into maintenance under both bhyve and VirtualBox. >>> John >>> groenv...@acm.org >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> openindiana-discuss mailing list >>> openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org >>> https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss >>> >> >> -- >> eMail: mailto:rlha...@smart.net >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> openindiana-discuss mailing list >> openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org >> https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss >> > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
