After a normal install, selecting a US PS2 keyboard, in the pre-X login the backspace key works as erase but the Delete key yields a character code sequence "^[[3~". In Gnome terminal emulation, neither backspace nor delete work -- both ring a bell and echo "~" -- but ^H works just fine as erase, even though stty -a shows erase being ^? (which I believe meant DEL). I tried calling this in to installation support, but they had never heard of this before. If I haven't given enough information to identify this problem, I need to know what test to try next. The same keyboard (through a Belkin Omni KVM switch) drives a copy of RedHat 4.2, with no problem.
I have been fiddling with X configuration and in the process, this problem has gone away. I don't understand how I got here or what I did to fix the problem, but since it no longer happens, I can't track anything down and have to mark this as notabug. - Carl