Newbie attempting installation

[tgrantjr5757]

Ok, first i would like to thank everyone for some information they have already given me thru searching the forum. Unfortunately i cannot get anything to work at all. Here is what i have. Its a stock compaq DV6809WM entertainment pc i got off a friend a while back. Here is where im running into a problem.

 

Any distro of this say kalyway or ideneb will load the installer. I go to the disk tool and there is no hard drive!!!!

 

I went ahead and made a fresh install of win7 and used the disk management tool to create an active partition of 20gb fat32 just for kicks. I get thru the opening of installing osx86 and i still cannot see any hard drives. I am so confused on this im about to give up. If someone out there in cyberspace has any ideas on the topic or a opinion please let me know. I would not mind buying a copy of osx, i just dont want their hardware.

 

Thanks for all the info in advance.

[19gc88]

Ok, first i would like to thank everyone for some information they have already given me thru searching the forum. Unfortunately i cannot get anything to work at all. Here is what i have. Its a stock compaq DV6809WM entertainment pc i got off a friend a while back. Here is where im running into a problem.

 

Any distro of this say kalyway or ideneb will load the installer. I go to the disk tool and there is no hard drive!!!!

 

I went ahead and made a fresh install of win7 and used the disk management tool to create an active partition of 20gb fat32 just for kicks. I get thru the opening of installing osx86 and i still cannot see any hard drives. I am so confused on this im about to give up. If someone out there in cyberspace has any ideas on the topic or a opinion please let me know. I would not mind buying a copy of osx, i just dont want their hardware.

 

Thanks for all the info in advance.

 

There is no hard drive cos you have to "initialize" (format) the partition you want to use in the installation in Macos journaled.