Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Problem with USB-Keyboard at Install

[Mark Knecht]

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Duncan<1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote:
> Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> posted
> 5bdc1c8b0908030725l402032d6l28d3869ee3f059b6@××××××××××.com, excerpted
> below, on  Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:25:02 -0700:
>
>> On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Lance
>> Lassetter<lancelassetter@×××××.com> wrote: <SNIP>
>>>
>>> Have you tried enabling evdev in make.conf under INPUT_DEVICES?
>>>
>>> i.e. in make.conf:
>>>
>>> INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev"
>>>
>> ???
>>
>> How could he do this when he's trying to boot from an install CD?
>
> Hmm, mount the ISO using loopback, make the change, umount, burn?
>
> (He did say he got around it using SuSE instead of a Gentoo LiveCD, which
> is what I did back in 2004 with Mandrake, as well.  But I thought the
> question was still interesting enough to answer.  Just because it's an
> ISO doesn't mean it can't be changed. =;^)
>

Duncan,
   So I guess you are suggesting that someone doing a Gentoo install,
and finding that the install CD fails to work, is then possibly going
to modify the install CD?

   Beyond that what make.conf are we speaking about? As I asked over
the weekend, and as far as I can tell, there is no make.conf on the
install CD to modify. (With the keyboard we don't have because we're
running USB unless this is a completely different installation on the
same machine, or we're doing it on a different machine.)

   Maybe I'm underestimating INPUT_DEVICES but I thought that was only
for xorg-server which isn't running when the install CD finishes
booting is it? Even if the OP had done what you suggested, had enough
knowledge of Gentoo to think about creating a make.conf file and
placing "keyboard mouse evdev" in it, burned a new copy, and then
rebooted, what changes about the environment that is running at that
point?

   I'm really confused and I know this because you are, no joke here,
one of my Gentoo guiding lights! Enlighten me! Please!

Cheers,
Mark