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
Unable to duplicate because of lack of similar hardware availability.