Re: help! my usb keyboard works only slightly on install

[amacater@galactic.demon.co.uk (Andrew M.A. Cater)]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 11:33:14PM -0800, David Gluss wrote:
> 
> I did achieve success by setting the root password to 888, and skipping
> the create user step.  This was done with a USB-ps2 dongle.  So the installation
> kernel definitely supports USB.  The serial console is the (darn it) obvious
> answer...but too late for this go-round.
> 
> I can report that as far as I can tell so far, the Sun x4100 is a smokin'
> hot machine.  Boots really fast.
> 
Use a _Sun_ USB keyboard. Don't use a PC keyboard, don't use a dongle -
otherwise you get randomness.

Suns, in my experience have "different USB" - certainly, I had to dig
up a Sun USB keyboard to get a Linux install to work on a relatively 
recent Sun.

Andy