Hi there

After giving up on solaris 10 because of installation problems (see my
previous post) I inserted the latest solaris 9 DVD downloaded from sun
and booted up my blade 100 box (sparcv9).
The GUI came up,  and I noticed that the mouse cursor was not moving. I
switched the KVM around and again the cursor was frozen, then rebooted
and repeated the install - again no change.

I moved past the first screen with the Spacebar key.
When I got the "Networking" screen I was presented with 2 choices -
Networked and Not Networked.
I was able to flip back and forth between these 2 choices with the Tab
key, but no matter what I tried I couldn't get to the Next button and
move on.
I tried all possible control and arrow keys, Space, Alt, Shift,
NumLock, Enter, etc... Nothing worked.

There is 1 important detail - I am using a standard PC-101 keyboard
attached to a KVM switch which is obviously different from the Sun
keyboards but that has not been a problem to install and run Solaris 8
in the past.
Suggestions please!

Johna Perkins wrote:
> Hi there
>
> After giving up on solaris 10 because of installation problems (see my
> previous post) I inserted the latest solaris 9 DVD downloaded from sun
> and booted up my blade 100 box (sparcv9).
> The GUI came up,  and I noticed that the mouse cursor was not moving. I
> switched the KVM around and again the cursor was frozen, then rebooted
> and repeated the install - again no change.
>
> I moved past the first screen with the Spacebar key.
> When I got the "Networking" screen I was presented with 2 choices -
> Networked and Not Networked.
> I was able to flip back and forth between these 2 choices with the Tab
> key, but no matter what I tried I couldn't get to the Next button and
> move on.
> I tried all possible control and arrow keys, Space, Alt, Shift,
> NumLock, Enter, etc... Nothing worked.
>
> There is 1 important detail - I am using a standard PC-101 keyboard
> attached to a KVM switch which is obviously different from the Sun
> keyboards but that has not been a problem to install and run Solaris 8
> in the past.
> Suggestions please!


Hi,

  Not sure  that my experience will help you ....

I  have an Avocent  Switchwiew  4 port USB  KVM.   there is  no PS/2
connectors  at all  on this KVM.
I am  using  a SUN type 6  keyboard/Mouse.

Attached to the kVM is both Sparc and PC  workstations.
When I boot  the Sparc W/S   it says  :
"two keyboards/mouse  not supported"

This is because  the KVM is sort of  generating a "shadow"
keyboard/mouse  image  for the computer to see whilst  the
real keyboard  is attached to another box.

So KVM's  are sometimes design to  give  a Workstaion a virtual
keyboard/mouse  to keep the box from going crazy.

I sort of wondered if  the SB100  is getting the  keyboard/mouse
"images"   from the KVM mixed up ? 


//Lars