Thanks, Paul. What you meant is that I should choose option 7 when the beastie menu pops up, right? I am not sure which FreeBSD release could do that. In my 5.2.1 and 5.3R1, the option 7 is "reboot". Is that in 5.4?
thanks a lot, --ken On 6/14/05, Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --On Monday, June 13, 2005 22:16:38 -0700 Kan Cai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Hi, Paul: > > > > Thanks for the reply, but it didn't work. I tried 3 keyboards and 2 > > FreeBSD releases (5.2.1, and 5.3R1). The combination of logitech > keyboard > > with 5.2.1 does highlight the keymap option in sysinstall menu, but that > > is how far it goes. The keyboard stops working so that I cannot press > > "space", "tab" or "enter". > > > I'm not sure I explained myself clearly. Let's try again. > > ***During the boot process***** before you ever get to sysinstall, when > the > daemon shows up on the screen and you're given a menu with several > options, > if you look closely, option seven (7) must be chosen to use a usb keyboard > **during the install**. > > If you're waiting until the sysinstall appears, that's way too late. You > need to chose option 7 before the kernel even loads, almost immediately > after the system boots. > > If you *are* doing that and the keyboards aren't working anyway, then I > have no idea what the problem might be. > > Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Adjunct Information Security Officer > University of Texas at Dallas > AVIEN Founding Member > http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
