Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 01:04:34 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing on a machine with no PS/2 ports (USB only) Message-ID: <1098853474.51833.23.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20041027005518.W42571@alpha.siliconlandmark.com> References: <1098850867.51833.14.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20041027005518.W42571@alpha.siliconlandmark.com>
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--=-Fb7HqA7FOadsUBAyro1P Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 00:56, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote: > On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >=20 > > The more I look into this, the more it looks like I'm screwed. I'm > > trying to install FreeBSD 5.3-RC1 from CD on a machine without any PS/2 > > ports. All I have is a USB keyboard. Yes, the BIOS has legacy USB > > support enabled, and the keyboard works to hit enter at the initial boo= t > > prompt. However, once I'm in sysinstall, I'm out of luck. > > > > I tried disconnecting the keyboard at boot time to see if I could get a > > serial console to do the installation, but that didn't work. The > > console was still detected as internal video. Any ideas on how I can > > get FreeBSD on this machine (Dell OptiPlex GX280)? Thanks. >=20 > Joe- When in doubt, a good old hard drive swap works wonders... :) Yes it does, but are new users to FreeBSD going to be willing to do this? I really think we should make the effort to support both PS/2 and USB keyboards during install, or we may find that users will look elsewhere. That said, I built boot floppies, created a /boot.config on my boot.flp with "-hD", and I'm now doing a serial console install. Joe >=20 > | Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant > > | Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/ > --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-Fb7HqA7FOadsUBAyro1P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBfyxib2iPiv4Uz4cRAqi0AJ4zfCVgsHvRm2YEzNcCjgT39Ta99wCghFWL xFWuRgv1VVmhnBz9kNzY64w= =FgcP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-Fb7HqA7FOadsUBAyro1P--
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