From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 6 21: 1:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nycsmtp2out.rdc-nyc.rr.com (nycsmtp2out.rdc-nyc.rr.com [24.29.99.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4606337B401 for ; Mon, 6 May 2002 21:01:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from despammed.com (24-168-24-239.nyc.rr.com [24.168.24.239]) by nycsmtp2out.rdc-nyc.rr.com (8.12.1/Road Runner SMTP Server 1.0) with SMTP id g473wMYV000598; Mon, 6 May 2002 23:58:22 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 00:00:39 -0500 From: Scott Robbins To: grib3989@students.rowan.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installation trouble Message-ID: <20020507050039.GA4015@scott1.homeunix.net> References: <321a1e321a64.321a64321a1e@students.rowan.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <321a1e321a64.321a64321a1e@students.rowan.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 11:46:08PM -0400, grib3989@students.rowan.edu wrote: > Hello, > > I currently am running windows ME (yuck) and have been trying to > install freebsd, also. I created a new partition for it with partition > magic, and made that partition of type fat. So, I went install it by cd- > rom, but whenever the screen comes up asking me about Kernel > configuration the system seams to freeze. No key works and I can't do > anything except restart my computer. Any assistance you could give me > on this would be great. Thank you. I've had this trouble from time to time, usually when using a KVM switch. However, whether or not a KVM switch was being used, in each case, I was able to solve it by swapping keyboards (not necessarily using a higher end keyboard either--sometimes, a particular keyboard simply doesn't work right with it) Hope this helps a bit Scott Robbins To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message