Have you got USB Legacy Support enabled in BIOS? Shouldn't be necessary, but it might help.
On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 10:17, Susan Macchia wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Hope you all had a good holiday. I spent some time trying to get my > second PC installed with RH 8.0. I had some problems that I was > wondering if anyone enountered or has any ideas about: > > The machine is a Compaq Presario, 700 mhz AMD Duron, 256MB RAM, 20G HD. > It has a usb keyboard and PS/2 wheel mouse and ran W2K. I wanted to > keep it dual boot in case of problems and because there were files that > I might need on it. These are the steps I took to get linux > installed: > > 1) It used partition magic to create the initial set of partitions and > to squish windows into the first 7G, leaving the rest for linux. > > 2) Put RH 8.0 CD and rebooted machine. The initial screen to boot off > the CD came up fine and I could type with no problem. > > 3) Next screen asking whether to verify the CD or skip froze solid. > > I tried some other installing 7.3 using and when got a "kernel panic" > error right off on boot. Then I thought, hmmm, usb keyboard? I > removed the usb keyboard and put a generic non-usb keyboard on it;the > 8.0 install went without a hitch. So I know have a working 8.0 system > that I can experiment with networking and the like. I also have my son > using it to browse the net :-) > > But the real question for me is, why couldn't the installation deal > with the usb keyboard? If I plug the keyboard back in, will it work? > I haven't found too much on usb keyboards on the web or on the SxS > site. > > Thoughts? > > ===== > _____________________________ > Susan Macchia > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > _____________________________ > > - Running Linux - because life is too short for reboots... > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
