On Sun, Aug 09, 2015 at 08:44:47PM -0700, Danny Nguyen wrote: > 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.
If the disks are plugged into SATA ports you may need to change the mode in the bios from RAID to AHCI. If they're plugged into SAS ports it's possible you have the unsupported Intel SAS controller in which case move them to SATA ports.
