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During VM creation, assuming you added an ssh public key value when prompted:
Add an entry like the following to your ~/.ssh/config:
Host ip-of-your-new-vm
PreferredAuthentications publickey
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/name-of-your-private-key
ssh into your VM with:
ssh root@ip-of-your-new-vm
After initially booting from disk 1 and following the prompts to format the disk, you’ll reach a prompt where it asks you to remove the install media and reboot. Note that it also says to only remove the media after the machine has reset before you eject- this is important otherwise the disk will not be bootable:
The sequence that appears to work is:
At this point you’re asked what partition to boot from (select 1) and the installer will continue as normal from that point:
If you remove the iso from the VM before it resets, you’ll see the screen to select either the boot disk or the cdrom (the initial installer screen, not the partition selection screen above), and if you select the disk at this point it will not boot (after pressing Enter it appears there’s a few seconds delay where there is a disk sync step, and this needs to complete before the machine resets and when it’s safe to remove the iso).
After setting up a self-hosted GitLab instance in a Proxmox LXC container using the Debian Turnkey GitLab template, the initial root user password didn’t seem to be what I set it to during install.
Assuming you can ssh into the instance, change the password of any user with:
sudo gitlab-rake "gitlab:password:reset"
This is from the docs here.
DOS didn’t originally come with mouse drivers. mouse.com or similarly came on a disk with your Microsoft PS/2 mouse or similar.
If you’re looking for a current mouse driver for DOS on old PCs or running in a VM, I just found an open source project CuteMouse recommended and it works great with DOS 6.22 running under UTM/QEMU