Re: NetBSD installation doesn't like keyboard

I'll give another keyboard a try just in case but this is an original Sun Type4.  I also used a keyboard converter with a PS/2 keyboard but same behavior.  There doesn't seem to be a keyboard mapping option available before the installer starts.

--- On Sun, 8/14/11, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Suns-at-Home] NetBSD installation doesn't like keyboard
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Sunday, August 14, 2011, 3:33 AM
> > Has anyone ever experienced the
> NetBSD installation screens accepting
> > what seems to be two keypresses from console when only
> one is made?
> >
> > In this case, if I press return (Type4 or Type5
> keyboard), it moves to a
> > submenu but then somehow assumes I've pressed enter
> again.  This happens
> > at the first Install menu (menu choice A to install
> NetBSD from
> > scratch).  It goes to the next screen which asks
> "are you sure" but "No"
> > is highlighted. Suddenly it jumps back to the main
> menu again as if I
> > answered "no".  Some menus don't do this. 
> The reinstall option doesn't
> > do it but the distrubtion sets underneath do. 
> 
> No, but I have had problems with the FreeBSD installer
> being unresponsive
> and doing things that have no relation to what I am typing
> and I found it
> had to do with the keyboard mapping.
> 
> Are you using a non-standard keyboard and is there any way
> (I used to use
> NetBSD a lot years ago but have been away from it except
> for a quick
> checkout of 5.0.1 recently) to set the keyboard before you
> go into the main
> part of the installer?
> 
> Can you try using a different keyboard?
> 
> 
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