Problem Installing freeBSD 8.1 on Dell Poweredge T110

[Jerry]

On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 09:55:41 -0500
Mike Overton <mikeo.veterantutors at gmail.com> articulated:

>   (New Dell Poweredge T110, X3430 Xeon, 4GB 1333MHz ). Machine
> replaces operating freeBSD 8.1 Dell 686 machine with active Internet
> connection.
> 
> When trying to load freeBSD 8.1 from a boot only i386 ISO disc, which 
> installed with no problems on Dell 686 Pentium machine, new machine
> is not accepting network configuration loaded via Sysinstall and
> cannot find freeBSD download site.
> 
> Dell Support refused help, stating "we do not support freeBSD".
> 
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.

What error messages are displayed?

Is this a hard wired or wireless connection?

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Jerry ✌
FreeBSD.user at seibercom.net

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