At 11:37 PM 7/13/2011, you wrote:
On 07/11/2011 08:37 PM, david wrote:
I fear that the net-install image may not support USB keyboards, which if so, is unfortunate.
that is not true, I've done a couple of installs on machines that only hae usb keyboards and its been fine. Could it be a model / bios / firmware issue ?
- KB
Dear KB:
You are right-on. It turns out that the BIOS has a setting "USB Emulation", which if turned on, lets a USB keyboard/mouse behave like the PS2 version. With this option turned on, the USB keyboard worked throughout the install process. With this option turned off, the USB keyboard was not visible to the first net-install screen, although apparently some native USB drivers came into play later.
So here's one "problem" that has evaporated. On to the next one.
David