HD not recognized after reboot during installation

Hello,
I am installing Solaris 8 on a Dell Optiplex pc.
I boot from the CD Rom and the install appears to go ok until the install program indicates that it has to reboot.
When the unit does reboot, I get an error message that it cannot find the hard drive.
When I go to the bios setting, I see that it only recognizes the floppy drive as a means to boot.
What have I done wrong?
I have a dos partition on the drive (8mb and formatted).
Chris Hax

I am new to solaris too, but according to the information I gathered here and there, it needs an unformatted primary partition (just white space). I am dual booting with Windows NT, and what I did was to create small partition for the boot partition of the NT and leave the rest of the disk empty(do not create partition). Somewhere during the installation, solaris will ask you,among other things, whether it can use the empty space without disturbing the existing data. Answer yes and it will ceate it's own boot selection, whereby you will be able to select between solaris and anything else that you had before. That's a superb feature in solaris.
regards.
Yousef

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