Re: dell 8400 install prob

2004-08-25 Thread Robin Becker
David Kelly wrote: On Aug 15, 2004, at 10:03 AM, Robin Becker wrote: Sigh! I tried with 4.10 as well and that also fails. Sadly I don't have a spare IDE / drive lying about. I guess I'll have to wait on freebsd or install one of the more advanced Linux OSes I didn't *install* on my SATA drives o

Re: dell 8400 install prob

2004-08-15 Thread David Kelly
On Aug 15, 2004, at 10:03 AM, Robin Becker wrote: Sigh! I tried with 4.10 as well and that also fails. Sadly I don't have a spare IDE / drive lying about. I guess I'll have to wait on freebsd or install one of the more advanced Linux OSes I didn't *install* on my SATA drives on Dell PowerEdge 400

Re: dell 8400 install prob

2004-08-15 Thread Robin Becker
Jerry McAllister wrote: JJB wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install freebsd 4.9 on my new dell 8400. ... I believe 4.9 can not use a sata drive as target to install on. 4.9 is the old stable release 4.10 is the new stable release. Turn off pnp support and ms/windows support in y

Re: dell 8400 install prob

2004-08-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > JJB wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >>I am trying to install freebsd 4.9 on my new dell 8400. > >> > ... > > > > I believe 4.9 can not use a sata drive as target to install on. 4.9 > > is the old stable release 4.10 is the new stable release. Turn off > > pnp support and ms/win

Re: dell 8400 install prob

2004-08-15 Thread Robin Becker
JJB wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install freebsd 4.9 on my new dell 8400. ... I believe 4.9 can not use a sata drive as target to install on. 4.9 is the old stable release 4.10 is the new stable release. Turn off pnp support and ms/windows support in your pc bios. Your pc is n

dell 8400 install prob

2004-08-15 Thread Robin Becker
I am trying to install freebsd 4.9 on my new dell 8400. I don't see any conflicts in the config stage, but during the setup the install just hangs after . The machine has an sata drive and by default the bios is to configure hyper threading on. I've tried changing various settings and in order t