dell 8400 install prob

[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 <plip>.

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 to 
  reinstall XP I had to change the bios drive setting to do raid/ata 
autodetect. Certainly turning off HT doesn't seem to get the freebsd 
install any further.

I managed to get various knoppix/freesbie versions to come up, but not 
easily and only the knoppix 3.2 seems to see the hard drive properly.
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Robin Becker