On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 01:02:18PM -0700, Jeff wrote:
| Derrick 'dman' Hudson, 2002-Jun-06 10:35 -0500:
| > On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 01:56:22PM +0200, Joris Lambrecht wrote:

| > | Who can tell me if it's possible to install Debian on a system wich can
| > | only handle usb keyboards/mouse from scratch. PS/2 devices are not an
| > | option.
| > 
| > You're best bet would be to try the bf2.4 installer.  Since it's a 2.4
| > kernel it might have the USB stuff included (I haven't checked).

| You definitely need to have an installation boot CD or Floppy with
| 2.4.x kernel support to detect the USB keyboard and/or mouse.

USB stuff was backported to recent 2.2 kernels, but I don't know of an
installer that includes the patches.  I also don't know how well it
works because I didn't play with USB until I had a 2.4 kernel.  In
addition to having a 2.4 kernel, you'll need the USB support included
in it (it's configurable ya know :-)).  Hence all the uncertainty.

-D

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