[ale] H/W Q: Fedora-C3 and Dell's USB keyboard & mouse, SATA drives

[Dow Hurst]

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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