enter 'expert noprobe' at the boot prompt should skip the mouse autoprobe.
On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Aaron Sinclair wrote:
> My fourth day of attempting 6.0 installation leaves me speachless. No i am
> not an imbecile, yes I have half a brain.. Most of my time has been spent
> browsing HOWTO's FAQ's Man and LINUX Books, Unix Books, you name it and I
> have looked.
>
>
> The system is
> HP OmniBook 2000 CT laptop
> Pentium 133 MMX
> 32meg ram
> 2.0 gig hdd
>
> The dist. is
> Macmillan- Mandrake 6.0
>
> The problem arises during install, after the packages have been
> copied from the CD, Mouseconfig 3.9 attempts to probe the system for a
> mouse, the excact message displayed is "probing result" "probing found
> some type of PS/2 mouse on port psaux"
>
> It is here that the system freezes. I have spent many hours
> search through manuals to try and find a way to work around this.
> My mouse cannot be disabled as it is inbuilt into the laptop.
> There seems to be an "expert install" that allows for the
> "system probe" to be avoided, but for the life of me I cannot find a way of
> doing this. ...<does nothing>
>
> ....linuxsupport......
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
>
> We do not know of a way to make it not probe. You can try to
> install in expert mode but I cannot guarantee that it will allow you to skip
> the mouse probe.
> :
>
>
> Ok then I concede... I will not install 6.0 ... "What a piece
> of crap software"
>
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