Hi, I purchased a hewlett packard z800 workstation running windows 7 with the intention of running linux ubuntu as a sever but I've found OpenBSD to sound and contain more robust features (versus linux, FreeBSD, and NetBSD) when dealing with security.
I have Michael W. Lucas's book, "Absolute OpenBSD" to help with OpenBSD install but I've hit a wall on the install process. I can to tear open both computer boxes and look for product numbers to identify the specific physical hardware to pinpoint the exact bottleneck. Things I have tried multiple times: *1.*The method being used to install OpenBSD 5.7 are two physical compact discs (one is the cd57.iso image and the other is the install57.iso image). Both were used. *2.* Both cds generate the same messages during the install process (on the z800 workstation) which is that the number of hard drives found is zero when there are two hard drives (not solid state drives) in 2 of the four bays. One is a seagate HD 500G SATA3 6GSQ, it also says "Firmware: HP73" on the drive. The other is a Hitachi with a capacity of 2TB with the labels "LBA: 3,907,029,168 sectors", "RPM: 7200RPM", and SATA 6.0 Gb/s. *3.* I wish I could send/print a "dmesg" but during the install process but the terminal writes that the "bge0" ethernet is sleeping so I'm not able to get to the mail feature in openbsd once the installation actually completes (like when installing on a dell 1950 gen II server). I think this means that it cannot find the ethernet connection even when the computer has a physical ethernet cable plug from it to the wall. *4.* I then proceeded to try to install OpenBSD onto a dell 1950 generation 2 server and I get past the "detecting" hard drives which it does indeed detect 1 hard drive even though there are actually two hard drives in it (I think then this maybe a formatting problem like it requires a fat32 reformatting of the hard drive or something like that). However, it still canonot detect the ethernet connection called "bge0". Howeer, I do actually get a OpenBSD installation complete message though on the dell 1950 server and can read the two emails that come with the install cd. Is OpenBSD simply not compatible with this specific hardware (z800 workstation) or am I not doing something very basic?
