Bug 26786

Summary: Installing on Legacy Free Systems
Product: Base System Reporter: jmallett <jmallett>
Component: i386Assignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 4.3-RELEASE   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description jmallett 2001-04-23 03:50:00 UTC 
When installing FreeBSD on Legacy-Free systems, i.e. those with only USB keyboards and mice, keyboards will not be usable under sysinstall without disabling all input devices.

Fix: 

Disable all input devices other than the console.
How-To-Repeat: Attempt to install FreeBSD on a Legacy Free systems without disabling any devices.
Comment 1 Joseph Mallett 2001-05-24 20:26:22 UTC 
I've been told that this will be put into one of the installation guides
(I forget the name, but it was the one that sparked integration of
scrshot(1) stuff and that whole discussion), by the author of it. The
author of it was not, however, aware of this PR, and it should probably
just be closed.

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Comment 2 mike 2001-06-22 18:55:26 UTC 
This PR can be closed


Best regards,
Mike Barcroft
Comment 3 dd freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-06-22 23:03:08 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

requested by originator; pointed out by mike@q3media.com