What kind of HP machine? Also, how is the keyboard connected? USB? PS/2? Built-in laptop? Take a look at the bios settings, sometimes there is a 'legacy emulation' option for keyboards and mice. If there is, toggle it.
On 2007 Jan 11 (Thu) at 17:22:09 -0600 (-0600), Charles Blair wrote: : Thanks for the help with my previous distress calls. I fear :this will not be the last. : : I just booted the "i386" CD on my new HP machine. It displayed :a bunch of stuff, ending with the choices (I) install (S) shell. : : I tried to type "I" or "i", but nothing happened on my screen, :seemed to be no response at all. Control-C and control-alt-del :did not do anything either. I ended up turning the machine off. :Keyboard is working with windows. : : It may be significant that one of the things displayed was : :"kbc: cmd word write error". : : Bonus question: I last installed linux (debian) over five years :ago. I had that co-existing with a windows partition. The machine :orignally had its entire hard disk as windows. I had to use a program :(FIPS) to shrink the windows files to a smaller space, which then :became my windows partition when I used fdisk. I didn't see any :description of this part of the process in the installation :instructions. :_______________________________________________ :Openbsd-newbies mailing list :[email protected] :http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies : -- Afternoon, n.: That part of the day we spend worrying about how we wasted the morning. _______________________________________________ Openbsd-newbies mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies
