Derrick 'dman' Hudson, 2002-Jun-06 10:35 -0500: > On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 01:56:22PM +0200, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > > | I've recently purchased a spanking Athlon motherboard (Abit AT7Max) wich > | is to be installed with Linux, preferably Debian. > | > | 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). > > Otherwise put the hard drive in a PS/2 capable box, run the installer, > grab a 2.4 kernel and configure the USB keyboard to load at boot time > and put it back in the new box. > > For those of you who think potato is just great, here's where it > really loses out. This isn't the first time people have come to the > list with FATAL problems installing debian because they only have a > USB keyboard. At least Joris isn't a raw newbie looking to get on the > ball and is certainly capable of the drive-swapping technique I > described. I certainly hope woody fares better on these new-fangled > systems :-).
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. I recently booted a brand spanking new Toshiba Satellite 5105-S607 that is "legacy free", which means the keyboard and mouse-pad are on the USB bus, using the Knoppix CD which is based on the 2.4.18 kernel and loads KDE. It loaded fine, but got the modelines wrong so X was unusable. But, the keyboard worked fine and I could see something moving around amoung the squiggly lines on the botched X session when I scratched the mouse-pad. It found the keyboard fine and ran a nice framebuffer console in color at 1024x768 and I believe I saw the SCSI modules loaded for the CD-RW drive. jc -- Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
