O> At that point, after the installer's vmlinux has been > booted, the keystrokes on the usb keyboard are not > recognized when attempting to select the installation > media check options. This is quite odd because the > same usb keyboard is usable earlier in the installation Odd it may see but not unexpected. Until the kernel loads the BIOS is doing emulation of a PC keyboard via USB. After the kernel USB loads the OS takes over control. If that fails you have a problem. > Is there any workaround for this (as the Sun workstation > only has usb ports for keyboard and mouse) short of > waiting for Fedora 14? I guess a serial or vnc based network install might be helpful for debugging but hardly useful for production. Try booting with the option "irqpoll" just in case the USB stuff is having interrupt problems. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines