Bug 9220

I am trying to upgrade from red hat 5.2 to 6.1.  I couldn't upgrade to 6.0
because the mouse detection would lockup my gateway solo laptop.  it is a
133mhz, 16 RAM, 800M hd, and is the first model of solo.

now the keyboard locks up at the install in 6.1.

I have partitioned the hard drive into 3 segments. the first is a 16 bit
dos and holds 5 mg of space.  I put all of my cdrom drivers in it.  so, I
start up into dos w/ cdrom support, go to the d drive, and run
dosutile/autoboot. if I wait more than 5 seconds at the "running
sbin/loader prompt" the keyboard will lock up at the first setup screen.
then I must reboot.  if I can get past that, everything works until
reboot.  when I reboot, all is well until the "checking for new hardware"
prompt. the reason I know it is this prompt is because I can type on the
screen until this prompt.  if I can type after this prompt I am good to
go. if not, then I get to the login screen and cannot type anything.

this seems to be a totally random problem.  I have done everything I can
think of to isolate what triggers it and can't figure it out.

I am not a complete linux moron, but, not an expert either.  I am a Junior
at Fayetteville State, NC and majoring in comp sci, so I am familier with
whats going on, but in this case I don't have a clue.

thanks,

Matt Jamison