> A document that makes installation and use trivial, and makes it
> simple, is worth its weight in gold.

the instructions dont actually weigh anything so saying it's worth it's
weight in gold is saying they aren't worth anything. ;)

--Gravis

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Steve Litt <slitt@???>
wrote:

> On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 02:52:12 +0000
> KatolaZ <katolaz@???> wrote:
>
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > a few simple steps to have Devuan-pre-alpha-valentine installed and
> > running on qemu:
> >
> > 0)# wget
> > "
> http://mirror.debianfork.org/devuan-jessie-i386-xfce-prealpha-valentine.iso
> "
> >
> > 1)$ apt-get install qemu-kvm
> >

> > 2)$ qemu-img create devuan_disk 5G
> >     (creates a 5G qemu disk image for devuan)

> >
> > 3)$ qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom
> > devuan-jessie-i386-xfce-prealpha-valentine.iso -hda devuan_disk -boot
> > d -net nic -net user -m 256 -localtime & (installs Devuan on the qemu
> > disk image)
> >
> > 4)$ qemu-system-x86_64 -hda devuan_disk -boot c -net nic -net user
> > -m 256 -localtime & (boots the system)
> >
> > Just two words: IT WORKS :)
>
> No way did I have time to install the pre-alpha Valentine, and that
> fact distressed me because I was one of those asking for a quick
> release as a confidence builder. But I just didn't have the time.
>
> Then KatolaZ exactly documented the four steps to installation, and I
> said "I can do that in my sleep, while doing other work!" So I did it,
> and it worked (although slowly because -enable-kvm wasn't in the
> commands). KatolaZ' four step document.
>
> A document that makes installation and use trivial, and makes it
> simple, is worth its weight in gold. Thanks KatolaZ.
>
> SteveT
>

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