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  <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD/i386:</font></h3>
  <ul>
  <p>
- Play with your BIOS options, and see if you can enable booting off a
+ Play with your BIOS options to enable booting from a CD. The OpenBSD/i386 release is on CD1. If your BIOS does not support booting from CD, you will need to create a boot floppy to install from. To create a boot floppy write <i>CD1:2.9/i386/floppy29.fs</i> to a floppy and boot via the floppy drive.
- CD; try using CD1.  If not, write CD1:2.9/i386/floppy29.fs to a
- floppy, then boot that.  If you are mixing OpenBSD with another
- operating system, you will surely need to read the INSTALL.i386
- document.
  <p>
- To make a floppy under MS-DOS, use /2.9/tools/rawrite.exe.  Under
+ If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to read the included INSTALL.i386 document.
- Unix, use "dd if=&lt;file&gt; of=/dev/&lt;device&gt; bs=32k" (where device could
- be "floppy" or "rfd0c" or "rfd0a").  Use properly formatted perfect
+ <p>
- floppies with NO BAD BLOCKS or you will lose.
+ To make a boot floopy under MS-DOS, use the &quot;rawrite&quot; utility located at <i>CD:/2.9/tools/rawrite.exe</i>. To make the boot floppy under a Unix OS, use the <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dd&sektion=1">dd(1)</a> utility. The following is an example usage of <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dd&sektion=1">dd(1)</a>, where the device could be &quot;floppy&quot;, &quot;rfd0c&quot;, or &quot;rfd0a&quot;.
+ <ul><pre>
+ # <strong>dd if=&lt;file&gt; of=/dev/&lt;device&gt; bs=32k</strong>
+ </pre></ul>
+ <p>
+ Make sure you use properly formatted perfect floppies with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install will most likely fail. For more information on creating a boot floppy and installing OpenBSD/i386 please refer to <a href="faq/faq4.html#4.1">FAQ4.1</a>.
  </ul>
  <p>
  <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD/sparc:</font></h3>
  <ul>
  <p>
- To boot off CD2, type "boot cdrom 2.9/sparc/bsd.rd", or
+ The 2.9 release of OpenBSD/sparc is located on CD2. To boot off of this CD you can use one of the two commands listed below, depending on the version of your ROM.
- "b sd(0,6,0)2.9/sparc/bsd.rd" depending on your ROM version.
- Alternatively, write CD2:2.9/sparc/floppy29.fs to a floppy and boot it
+ <ul><pre>
- using "boot floppy" or "boot fd()" depending on your ROM version.
+ > <strong>boot cdrom 2.9/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
+ or
+ > <strong>b sd(0,6,0)2.9/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
+ </pre></ul>
+ <p>
+ If your sparc does not have a CD drive, you can alternativly boot from floppy. To do so you need to write &quot;CD2:2.9/sparc/floppy29.fs&quot; to a floppy. For more information see <a href="faq/faq4.html#4.1">FAQ4.1</a>. To boot from the floppy use one of the two commands listed below, depending on the version of your ROM.
+ <ul><pre>
+ > <strong>boot floppy</strong>
+ or
+ > <strong>boot fd()</strong>
+ </pre></ul>
+ <p>
+ Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install will most likely fail.
  </ul>
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  Get the release via ftp. Then, you can either setup a diskless boot or
  create an installation tape, as described in INSTALL.sun3.
+ </ul>
+ <p>
+ <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD/alpha:</font></h3>
+ <ul>
+ <p>
+ Get the release via ftp. Then, you can either setup a diskless boot or boot via floppy as described in INSTALL.alpha.
+ </p>
  </ul>
  <p>