+
Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the
use of the "disklabel -E" command. If you are at all confused when
installing OpenBSD, read the relevant INSTALL.* file as listed above!
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OpenBSD/i386:
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+OpenBSD/i386:
+
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 CD1:2.9/i386/floppy29.fs to a floppy and boot via the floppy drive.
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If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to read the included INSTALL.i386 document.
-To make a boot floppy under MS-DOS, use the "rawrite" utility located at CD:/2.9/tools/rawrite.exe. To make the boot floppy under a Unix OS, use the dd(1) utility. The following is an example usage of dd(1), where the device could be "floppy", "rfd0c", or "rfd0a".
+To make a boot floppy under MS-DOS, use the "rawrite" utility located at CD:/2.9/tools/rawrite.exe. To make the boot floppy under a Unix OS, use the dd(1) utility. The following is an example usage of dd(1), where the device could be "floppy", "rfd0c", or "rfd0a".
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# dd if=<file> of=/dev/<device> bs=32k
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+
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 FAQ4.1.
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OpenBSD/sparc:
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OpenBSD/sparc:
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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.
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-> boot cdrom 2.9/sparc/bsd.rd
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+> boot cdrom 2.9/sparc/bsd.rd
or
-> b sd(0,6,0)2.9/sparc/bsd.rd
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+> b sd(0,6,0)2.9/sparc/bsd.rd
+
If your sparc does not have a CD drive, you can alternatively boot from floppy. To do so you need to write "CD2:2.9/sparc/floppy29.fs" to a floppy. For more information see FAQ4.1. To boot from the floppy use one of the two commands listed below, depending on the version of your ROM.
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-> boot floppy
+
+> boot floppy
or
> boot fd()
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Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install will most likely fail.
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If your sparc doesn't have a floppy drive nor a CD drive, you can either
setup a bootable tape, or install via network, as told in the
INSTALL.sparc file.
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OpenBSD/amiga:
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OpenBSD/amiga:
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Create BSD partitions according to INSTALL.amiga's preparation section.
Mount the CD2 under AmigaOS as device CD0: Next, execute the following
CLI command: "CD0:2.9/amiga/utils/loadbsd CD0:2.9/amiga/bsd.rd".
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+OpenBSD/hp300:
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OpenBSD/hp300:
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+OpenBSD/mac68k:
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OpenBSD/mac68k:
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Boot MacOS as normal and partition your disk with the appropriate A/UX
configurations. Then, extract the Macside utilities from
CD2:2.9/mac68k/utils onto your hard disk. Run Mkfs to create your
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BSD/Mac68k Installer to copy all the sets in CD2:2.9/mac68k/ onto your
partitions. Finally, you will be ready to configure the BSD/Mac68k
Booter with the location of your kernel and boot the system.
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+OpenBSD/sun3:
+
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OpenBSD/sun3:
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-
You can either setup a diskless boot or create an installation tape,
as described in INSTALL.sun3.
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+OpenBSD/alpha:
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OpenBSD/alpha:
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-
Get the release via ftp. Then, you can either setup a diskless boot or boot via floppy as described in INSTALL.alpha.
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+Notes about the source code:
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Notes about the source code:
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src.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src. This file
contains everything you need except for the kernel sources, which are
in a separate archive. To extract:
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+
+# mkdir -p /usr/src
+# cd /usr/src
+# tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz
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+
-
-# mkdir -p /usr/src
-# cd /usr/src
-# tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz
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-
srcsys.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src/sys.
This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
To extract:
+
+
+# mkdir -p /usr/src/sys
+# cd /usr/src
+# tar xvfz /tmp/srcsys.tar.gz
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+
-
-# mkdir -p /usr/src/sys
-# cd /usr/src
-# tar xvfz /tmp/srcsys.tar.gz
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-
Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout. Using these trees it
is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
described at http://www.OpenBSD.org/anoncvs.html.
Using these files
results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
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