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Date:      Wed, 27 Oct 2004 07:20:29 +0200
From:      Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installing on a machine with no PS/2 ports (USB only)
Message-ID:  <200410270720.48963.4711@chello.at>
In-Reply-To: <1098853474.51833.23.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
References:  <1098850867.51833.14.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20041027005518.W42571@alpha.siliconlandmark.com> <1098853474.51833.23.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>

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On Wednesday 27 October 2004 07:04, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 00:56, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
> > On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > > 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
> > > boot 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.
> >
> > 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.

There is a link to a (bootonly) test-iso in pr 71443.
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=71443

Cheers,
ch  

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