Re: Installing on a machine with no PS/2 ports (USB only)

On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 01:20, Christian Hiris wrote:
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> 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

Thanks for the pointer.  I have 5.3 installed now, but I'll burn this
up, and test it none-the-less.

Joe

> 
> Cheers,
> ch  
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