Re: Dell PowerEdge1850 Won't Take a Freebsd4.11 Installation.

2005-08-04 Thread Martin McCormick
A Dell PowerEdge1850 will, in fact take a FreeBSD4.11 installation. This problem has been solved. It turns out that Dell Computers only supports a particular version of Redhat at this time. They put a special partition on the drives shipped with PowerEdge 1850's that is about 50

Re: Dell PowerEdge1850 Won't Take a Freebsd4.11 Installation.

2005-08-03 Thread Martin McCormick
Lowell Gilbert writes: >Well, I'd certainly expect 5.4 or later, with the ATA and RAID >improvements, to work better, but you're right that it kind of >sounds more like the CD is giving you the problems. > >Check the emergency shell (alt-F4, I think?) for any messages... Thank you very mu

Re: Dell PowerEdge1850 Won't Take a Freebsd4.11 Installation.

2005-08-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Martin McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just powered up a shiny new Dell Poweredge 1850 with the > idea of installing FreeBSD4.11 on it. Everything started out okay > until I got to the part in the Standard Installation where it was > going to extract the distributions just after f

Dell PowerEdge1850 Won't Take a Freebsd4.11 Installation.

2005-08-02 Thread Martin McCormick
I just powered up a shiny new Dell Poweredge 1850 with the idea of installing FreeBSD4.11 on it. Everything started out okay until I got to the part in the Standard Installation where it was going to extract the distributions just after formatting the disk, actually the hardware raid disks