On Mit, 31 M�r 2004, dann frazier wrote: >On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 11:42:35AM +0200, Martin Kleinschmidt wrote: >> >> I have an itanium machine with only 4 USB connectors, no ps/2 or other. >> The USB keyboard is not recognized by the net-install CD's kernel (sarge). > >this was fixed, but not before beta3.
I downloaded and booted http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/ia64/beta3/sarge-ia64-businesscard.iso but the USB keyborad still does not work. >> The debian stable CDs do not boot at all. > >really? what box do you have? you can try the HP cd, for which a link is >posted >on the ia64 ports page, if you want to test with a newer kernel. >redhat 7.2 boots, but the woody boot-floppies kernel doesn't? very odd. In the meantime I disvovered the following: The woody CD DOES boot, when trying 3 times :-) It gives some error message, when trying to boot it. The messages disappears very fast - no time to read it. tried agan - trying to hit scroll-lock - to slow. tried again - it boots ! This is reproducible! Third try is always successfull. strange windows-like behaviour ;) So: I installed the base system from the woody CD. Compliments to the debian community at this point: an excellent installer! (This is my first debian install) No that I have the base system running, I would like to switch to "testing". How do I do that? ...martin
