From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 27 05:20:52 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96AD216A4CF for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 05:20:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from chello084114137224.1.15.vie.surfer.at (chello084114137224.1.15.vie.surfer.at [84.114.137.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3C45F43D5A for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 05:20:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from 4711@chello.at) Received: (qmail 61416 invoked from network); 27 Oct 2004 05:20:49 -0000 Received: from matrix010.matrix.net (192.168.123.10) by ns.matrix.net with SMTP; 27 Oct 2004 05:20:49 -0000 From: Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 07:20:29 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <1098850867.51833.14.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20041027005518.W42571@alpha.siliconlandmark.com> <1098853474.51833.23.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <1098853474.51833.23.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200410270720.48963.4711@chello.at> Subject: Re: Installing on a machine with no PS/2 ports (USB only) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 05:20:52 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 - -- Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at> | OpenPGP KeyID 0x3BCA53BE OpenPGP-Key at hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net and http://pgp.mit.edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBfzAw09WjGjvKU74RAnEpAJ9cbvvTuvf1Oj1q1U4C8KokEHlmlwCeJ+sV tRLLpqav16zcRS9naas8UmA= =nV/t -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----