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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: stuck at main menu
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 22:54:46 -0800
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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Sin Key Teck wrote:
> 
> I'm new to freebsd. I tried to install freebsd on my AST P/100 but got stuck
> at the main menu (couldn't type anything, couldn't select any option).

What version of FreeBSD please?  It's quite possible that you've got one
of those keyboard controllers which certain variants of FreeBSD's
syscons driver simply didn't like.
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project