Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 01:23:26 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing on a machine with no PS/2 ports (USB only) Message-ID: <1098854606.51833.25.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <200410270720.48963.4711@chello.at> References: <1098850867.51833.14.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20041027005518.W42571@alpha.siliconlandmark.com> <1098853474.51833.23.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <200410270720.48963.4711@chello.at>
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--=-cLGW0421P48rCRo9WwIF Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 01:20, Christian Hiris wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 >=20 > 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 g= et 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 c= an > > > > 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 an= d > > 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. >=20 > There is a link to a (bootonly) test-iso in pr 71443. > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D71443 Thanks for the pointer. I have 5.3 installed now, but I'll burn this up, and test it none-the-less. Joe >=20 > Cheers, > ch =20 >=20 > - --=20 > Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at> | OpenPGP KeyID 0x3BCA53BE=20 > OpenPGP-Key at hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net and http://pgp.mit.edu > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) >=20 > iD8DBQFBfzAw09WjGjvKU74RAnEpAJ9cbvvTuvf1Oj1q1U4C8KokEHlmlwCeJ+sV > tRLLpqav16zcRS9naas8UmA=3D > =3DnV/t > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-cLGW0421P48rCRo9WwIF 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) iD8DBQBBfzDOb2iPiv4Uz4cRAqtJAJ9Uk9JfjtXVQvU2gfFrQT30Zm6EhwCfT+JH a82nitj3UOb24x2bIrfqvHo= =5ETH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-cLGW0421P48rCRo9WwIF--
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