Singlemode broken with USB keyboard
    Benjamin Sobotta 
    mayday at gmx.net
       
    Tue Sep  6 08:59:18 PDT 2005
    
    
  
On Tuesday 06 September 2005 17:55, Erik Norgaard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am upgrading a system FBSD 5.4 to 6.0. I had tried to install 6.0
> BETA2 but it failed because the USB keyboard was not found. The PC is a
> new Dell, it has no other connections for keyboard than USB so I can't
> just use a legacy keyboard.
>
> Now I downloaded the source, made world and kernel and installed kernel
> and was ready to go into single user mode and install world. But, the
> keyboard was not found and my only choice was to reboot.
>
> So, where do I go from here? Is there somehow I can configure single
> user mode? Or is it a safe to install world in multiuser mode?
>
> Thanks, Erik
Hi Erik!
If there is no other user besides you on the machine, close all programs and 
make installworld in multiuser. Worked many times for me. Should be okay.
Cheers,
Benjamin
    
    
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