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Of course, once the system was loaded, I couldn't do this. I had to add 
the param when the installer gave me the option (but interestingly, I 
never had trouble getting the keyboard to work when booted from the cds).

Mike


On 03/30/2005 09:45 AM, Dow Hurst wrote:
> Dell ships RHEL3 with the precision line and a USB keyboard is an option 
> also, any later distro can be loaded on the n-dimension series with 
> comes no OS shipped.  I'd just get the install done with an old PS/2 
> keyboard and then work out configuring the new USB keyboard.  Keyboards 
> are cheap so you could just ditch the USB.  SUSE and Fedora ought to 
> work just fine with USB keyboards for the later versions of the 
> distro's.  Get the OS loaded and then plug in the USB keyboard to see if 
> it will autosense and configure it.  Then reboot without the PS/2.  Just 
> an idea.
> Dow
> 
> 
> Mills, John M. wrote:
> 
>> ALErs -
>>
>> I want to install Linux on a current Dell _Optiplex_G280_ box, but 
>> haven't
>> been successful with RH-7.3, Slackware-10.1, nor Knoppix-3.3. Even when I
>> swapped out the SATA hard-drive with IDE the and USB mouse with PS-2, at
>> some point [XFree86?] they all failed to see the USB keyboard. It looked
>> like a losing battle so I stopped beating on it, dragged out a 
>> dumpster-dive
>> Gateway, and stumbled forward(?) with RH-7.3.
>>
>> Should I expect Fedora/Core-3 to install on my current Dell (SATA, USB)
>> hardware configuration? If not, what distribution might work?
>>
>> Where should I have looked to answer these questions?
>>
>> TIA.
>> - Mills
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