Re: Installation report
* Simon Porter <hailstorm@fairadsl.co.uk> [2004-01-05 11:07]:
> This was where I had problems. The first thing I noticed was that although
> lilo was installed my Windows partition was added to it automatically. It's
I think you wanted to say that it was _not_ added automatically.
There's a bug report about this already.
> My next problem was that neither my USB keyboard or mouse was working. At
> this point I got some help off Philip (pb_) in the #debian-boot IRC channel.
> One suggestion was to install hotplug. I did a standard apt-get install
This is known issue, see
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=219290
You have to put some modules in /etc/modules. Either usb-ohci or
usb-uhci depending on your USB controller, plus at least usbkbd
(perhaps others, I'm not sure, sorry). Load usb-[ou]hci and usbkbd
(modprobe <foo>) and then plug the USB keyboard in and see if it
works.
> Overall - I have found that installing Debian is a lot quicker than with
> Gentoo and once installed I have found apt package management to be a
Nice.
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Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com
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