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
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
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
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