Hello,
I have had the same problem with Caldera Open Linux 2.2,
the easiest solution is to switch temporary to a ps2 mouse and after
installing remove it and install the serial mouse.
HTH, Herman
On Mon, 24 Jan
2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am trying to Install Mandrake
7.0(Air) but have a problem with mouse > autodetection.
> My PC motherboard has a PS/2 mouse port (which is disabled in the BIOS) but I
> prefer to use my Genius Serial 3 button mouse on COM port 1.
>
> When running the install program it autodetects the PS/2 port but then the
> serial mouse does not work. The Install skips over the mouse installation so
> there is no way to switch it back to serial. To Install using just the
> keyboard with TAB , SPACE and ENTER keys is very very heavy going !!!
>
> This new graphical install looks very nice, but you try to install with the
> keyboard ;(
>
> Melvyn Pearce
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
