On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 12:21:07AM -0400, 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 > > -- > PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc I reported exact the same thing the other day. No respons from the list though. What I did was to install from 5.2.1-RELEASE and make an upgrade from source. That works fine all the way. So the problem must be with the installer! -- Gunnar Flygt SR Datadrift Sveriges RadioReceived on Wed Oct 27 2004 - 04:36:58 UTC
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