Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 00:21:07 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Installing on a machine with no PS/2 ports (USB only) Message-ID: <1098850867.51833.14.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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--=-/21VfujAk1Sg/Hb8+e80 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-/21VfujAk1Sg/Hb8+e80 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBfyIzb2iPiv4Uz4cRAnQsAJ40P9umexIwTBqCeaoljpDujq/EZACfdFaF siSLtkK8DDi98AAUlEfBwGQ= =od8A -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-/21VfujAk1Sg/Hb8+e80--
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