From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 19 10:35:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA03605 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 10:35:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA03596 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 10:35:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA13235; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 10:33:15 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199606191733.KAA13235@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: PS/Valuepoint and keyboard hang on install To: aarond@btc.adaptec.com (Aaron Dailey) Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 10:33:15 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199606190337.VAA27603@btc.btc.adaptec.com> from "Aaron Dailey" at Jun 18, 96 09:26:29 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > My experience is that every key does nothing past a certain point. > I tried bouncing the num lock key during boot up - right after the > uncompressing kernel message the num lock light stops toggling, and > other keys don't work. [ VALUABLE CLUE ] Disable the internal and external caches on your machine; this is probably only necessary for the actual install. If you have only 4M of memory, borrw another 1M for the install, or grab one of the more recent "SNAP" releases from the FTP site; there should be a 4M boot disk in one of the SNAP directories. There is the possibility of a cache interaction with the ramdisk image decompression, and there is also the possibility that you just ran out of RAM and it hung. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.