Re: Linux and legacy-free motherboards
Hmmm, could someone then point me to an URL where i could obtain a
2.4-enabled-iso image ? If Debian doesn't do the trick i'm about to be
forced to move away from it. The question is then, what distro. Gentoo,
Suse, Redhat, Slackware ... I'll post back how this experience worked
out.
regards,
joris
On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 22:02, Jeff wrote:
> 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
>
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