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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Kybd prblm on IBM thinkpad
Date: 15 Jun 1996 19:06:34 GMT
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tkahler@netaxs.com (Tim Kahler) wrote:

> I am unable to install FreeBSD due to a unique problem. When I boot my 
> Thinkpad 750 with the install disk it loads and the menu appears. 
> However, somewhere during the bootup the keyboard map changed so a 'M' 
> becomes '^L'. Every key is some other code so I am unable to proceed with 
> the install.

Pick Nate Williams' boot floppy with the pcvt console driver.  It
is somewhere on ftp.freebsd.org in incoming/nate/ or so.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)