Re: help - vanishing keyboard
On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:04:21 -0500
Douglas Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 10:24:37AM +0100, sferriol wrote:
> > Chris Dunn a ?crit :
> > >I'm trying (hard) to install Testing or Etch on a Stylistic 3500 tablet.
> > >
> > >Sarge installed successfully, but I'm having problems with the boot /
> > >root diskettes on Testing / Etch.
> > >
> > >The Stylistic has an external Fujitsu floppy drive connected, and I
> > >have a USB keyboard connected.
> > >
> > etch installer uses 2.6 kernel instead of sarge (2.4)
> > and the 2.6 kernel is really bigger than 2.4 so we can not put usb
> > keyboard drivers on the boot floppy.
> > So etch installer with floppies does not longer support usb keyboard and
> > usb floppy driver, sorry :(
> > may be we will try to find a solution but i think it will be after etch
> > release
> >
> > for you, the only solution is to install a minimal sarge and after
> > upgrade to etch
> >
>
> Does the tablet have a serial port which you could use as a serial
> console (using either a terminal or other computer) for the install?
>
Thanks for the input, but no serial port.
The box has an onboard network card, but unfortunately the card is only
accessible when connected to the separate dock which I lack.
Chris Dunn
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