[afnog] FreeBSD 7.x install

[SM]

Hi Alan,
At 04:24 11-08-2009, Alan Levin wrote:
>Tried that too, didn't work.

set the following in the bootloader:

hint.apic.0.disabled=1

>6.4 worked but it didn't include support for the NIC.
>I've left it to the sysadmin but I believe he chose to install another
>NIC in order to upgrade (we think it's just the installer that broken

It's unlikely that it is an installer issue.

>- or not yet compatible with the Intel P45 architecture - although it
>appears the BSD stable team are working on this as I write this).
>We're also considering Ubuntu server but I haven't given up on BSD
>yet :)

Other flavors of BSD should work on that hardware.

Regards,
-sm