From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 26 8:19:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f234.law7.hotmail.com [216.33.237.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F12C137BD35 for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2000 08:19:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmd526@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 26140 invoked by uid 0); 26 Feb 2000 16:19:51 -0000 Message-ID: <20000226161951.26139.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 205.188.192.22 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Sat, 26 Feb 2000 08:19:51 PST X-Originating-IP: [205.188.192.22] From: "John Daniels" To: questions@freeBSD.org Subject: FreeBSD installation and USB Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 11:19:51 EST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG When I boot the kern.flp boot floppy for both 3.3 and 3.4, I get the following output: =============================================== /boot.config: -P Keyboard: no - BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 =============================================== It was pointed out to me that the disks were booting but my output was redirected, possibly because the BIOS didn't recognize my keyboard. The key thing to note is that MY KEYBOARD IS A USB KEYBOARD. My system only has support for USB keyboards (no PS/2 or AT-style keyboard ports) PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING: I *can* boot the NetBSD installation floppy. This leads me to believe that my BIOS is not the problem but that there may be a bug in USB support or USB support is not enabled on the installation floppies. I have a Human Interface Devices (HID) USB. I would be willing to try making some changes in my BIOS (but that doesn't appear to be necessary) QUESTIONS: 1-Do the installation floppies currently have USB support at all? 2-If so/if not how long will it take to add/debug? 3-Will FreeBSD 4.0 installation disks support/fix USB? 4- I can get to a system prompt after booting the NetBSD install floppy *SO* can I run FreeBSD install from there? AND if I do, will the FreeBSD system that is installed support USB on immediately after install or do I have to recompile the kernel (as is required, for example, to obtain USB support in Linux) 5- LASTLY, if the answers to my previous questions are not satisfactory (weeks to do a fix, no USB support upon install, etc.), does anyone know if it is possible, or how difficult it might be to install FreeBSD over/after an install of NetBSD. (I would plan on doing this after several months when FreeBSD USB works "out-of-the-box" on my system) Basically, booting the NetBSD install floppy and then running FreeBSD install program(s) or installing over NetBSD seems like a good *possible* work around for my problem. I thank you in advance and sincerely appreciate any help. John Please respond to: jmd526@hotmail.com FYI: System Specs, My system is an Acer Aspire PIII 450, 128MB RAM, 8GB HD with the following hardware: Human Interface Devices (HID) USB mouse and keyboard (*NOTE* only USB keyboard - no PS/2 or AT-style ports) Intel 82443BX Pentium II Processor to PCI bridge Intel 82443BX Pentium II Process to AGP Controller Intel 82371AB/EB PCI to USB Universal Host Controller Intel 82371EB PCI to ISA bridge (ISA mode) Intel 82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller Intel 82371AB/EB Power Management Controller (the Intel 82371AB/EB architecture is specifically supported according to the hardward notes at freeBSD.org) ATI XPERT 98 Display adapter Mitsubishi Diamond Plus 70 Monitor ESS Solo-1 Soundblaster sound card Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) BIOS Acer 56K DataFax PCI Modem 3com FastEtherlink XL 10/100MB TX Ethernet NIC (3C905B-TX) (Connected to a Netopia router with 160k bps DSL service) Hitachi DVD-ROM GD-2500 Generic IDE Harddisk and Floppy disk ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message