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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-dc.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news From: John Lucas <jlucas@jnet.vi> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: stuck at main menu Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 09:26:27 -0400 Organization: University of the Virgin Islands Lines: 21 Message-ID: <32BBE583.41C67EA6@jnet.vi> References: <59cvbn$d0c@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> <32BA3836.13728473@FreeBSD.org> <59g3ft$gis@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> NNTP-Posting-Host: backen.uvi.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32889 Sin Key Teck wrote: > > Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@FreeBSD.org) wrote: > : 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. > > 2.1.6 and 2.2-ALPHA. > > Problem solved. I was using a Win95 compatible keyboard (with 3 extra keys). > It is okay now after I swapped keyboards with an old PC. > I have a "Win95 compatible" keyboard (with the 3 extra keys) and I had no problem installing v2.1.0R. I think you may have had a marginal keyboard. -- | John Lucas jlucas@jnet.vi | | Information Technology NIC Handle: JL423 | | University of the Virgin Islands (809) 693-1216 | | St. Thomas, VI 00802 http://www.jnet.vi/jlucas.html |