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Mandrake 8 installation
Name: Rob Date: April 22, 2001 at 18:26:58 Pacific
Comment:
I recently downloaded both ISO's for Mandrake 8.0 and during the installation (the language selection part) my keyboard and mouse just don't work. I have a Dell dimension, both my mouse and keyboard are PS/2. If it would help to know, my mouse works fine in windows but while in safe mode it can't detect it. I have heard of "Beta 2" which supposedly fixes PS/2 problems, but I don't know where to find it.
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