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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!news.csuohio.edu!stever From: stever@csuohio.edu (Steve Ratliff) Subject: Re: *BSD & Gateways?? Message-ID: <1994Feb8.035808.26183@news.csuohio.edu> Sender: news@news.csuohio.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Cleveland State University X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5 References: <KRISTYN.94Feb7124412@spiff.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 03:58:08 GMT Lines: 23 Kristyn Fayette (kristyn@spiff.gnu.ai.mit.edu) wrote: : Hello, : : This last weekend I tried to get FreeBSD-1.0-RELEASE running on my : Gateway 2000 4DX2-66V (486DX2, 66 Mhz cpu w/ VESA localbus). Everything : worked fine until I got to the part where the CPIO floppy is used in : the installation process. But at the point where you insert the CPIO : floppy and enter 0 or 1 for the drive the diskette is in, my pc hangs. : The prompt is there, but I can't enter 0 for Drive A. It won't accept : any keyboard input. You should be able to get around this by banging on an innocuous key like (you pick) shift, control, alt while the system is booting up. This will prevent the keyboard from locking up and allow you to finish the install on the Gateway machine. This procedure has been reported to work for many, many Gateway machines. After you finish the install and configure your own customized kernel the problem supposedly goes away. I think it is very premature to switch to a different OS for a minor glitch that many others have overcome. Hope this helps. Steve A very happy FreeBSD user.