On Wed, Mar 26, 2014, at 05:11 PM, L. V. Lammert wrote: > On Wed, 26 Mar 2014, Charlie Farinella wrote: > > > I'm trying to install OpenBSD 5.4 on a Dell Vostro 400, it's several > > years old but not ancient. 4GB RAM, 250GB Seagate ST3250310AS hard > > drive. The installation goes normally until it tries to find the hard > > drive and then tells me no hard drive is available. > > > Assuming it is recognized in the machine BIOS, .. you mmight have to > install a DOS partition table first - it probably still has an ESX > partition table, even after wiping.
On OpenBSD the drive itself should show up in the installer regardless of whatever garbage is in the partition table. For a Windows install, your advice would be spot-on, but OpenBSD's installer is much more intelligent than anything that came out of Redmond, WA, US. -- Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com
