Following this are the instructions which you would have on a piece of
paper if you had purchased a CDROM set instead of doing an alternate
form of install. The instructions for doing an FTP (or other style
@@ -303,14 +317,16 @@
+
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!
-
-
OpenBSD/i386:
-
+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
@@ -333,26 +349,25 @@
To make a boot floppy under MS-DOS, use the "rawrite" utility located
at CD1:3.9/tools/rawrite.exe. To make the boot floppy under a Unix OS,
use the
-dd(1)
+dd(1)
utility. The following is an example usage of
-dd(1),
+dd(1),
where the device could be "floppy", "rfd0c", or
"rfd0a".
-
+
# dd if=<file> of=/dev/<device> bs=32k
-
+
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
this page.
-
+
OpenBSD/amd64:
+
-
OpenBSD/amd64:
-
The 3.9 release of OpenBSD/amd64 is located on CD2.
Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
your BIOS options first.
@@ -368,31 +383,29 @@
If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
read INSTALL.amd64.
-
+OpenBSD/macppc:
+
-
OpenBSD/macppc:
-
Put CD2 in your CDROM drive and poweron your machine while holding down the
C key until the display turns on and shows OpenBSD/macppc boot.
Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter boot cd:,ofwboot
/3.9/macppc/bsd.rd
-
+OpenBSD/sparc:
+
-
OpenBSD/sparc:
-
The 3.9 release of OpenBSD/sparc is located on CD3. To boot off of this CD you
can use one of the two commands listed below, depending on the version of your
ROM.
-
-ok boot cdrom 3.9/sparc/bsd.rd
+
+ok boot cdrom 3.9/sparc/bsd.rd
or
-> b sd(0,6,0)3.9/sparc/bsd.rd
-
+> b sd(0,6,0)3.9/sparc/bsd.rd
+
If your SPARC system does not have a CD drive, you can alternatively boot from floppy.
@@ -401,11 +414,11 @@
To boot from the floppy use one of the two commands listed below,
depending on the version of your ROM.
-
-ok boot floppy
+
+ok boot floppy
or
-> b fd()
-
+> b fd()
+
Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
@@ -415,11 +428,10 @@
If your SPARC system 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.
-
+
OpenBSD/sparc64:
+
-
OpenBSD/sparc64:
-
Put CD3 in your CDROM drive and type boot cdrom.
@@ -438,12 +450,11 @@
If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
-
+OpenBSD/alpha:
+
-
OpenBSD/alpha:
-
-Write FTP:3.9/alpha/floppy39.fs or
+Write FTP:3.9/alpha/floppy39.fs or
FTP:3.9/alpha/floppyB39.fs (depending on your machine) to a diskette and
enter boot dva0. Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
@@ -451,75 +462,58 @@
Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
will most likely fail.
-
+OpenBSD/cats:
-
OpenBSD/cats:
-
-
After updating the firmware to at least ABLE 1.95 if necessary, boot
FTP:3.9/cats/bsd.rd from an ABLE-supported device (such as a CD-ROM
or an existing FFS or EXT2FS partition).
-
+OpenBSD/hp300:
+
-
OpenBSD/hp300:
-
+OpenBSD/hppa:
+
-
OpenBSD/hppa:
-
+OpenBSD/luna88k:
+
-
OpenBSD/luna88k:
-
-
Copy bsd.rd to a Mach or UniOS partition, and boot it from the PROM.
Alternatively, you can create a bootable tape and boot from it. Refer to
the instructions in INSTALL.luna88k for more details.
-
+OpenBSD/mac68k:
+
-
OpenBSD/mac68k:
-
-
Boot MacOS as normal and extract the Macside "BSD/Mac68k Booter" utility from
FTP:3.9/mac68k/utils onto your hard disk. Configure the "BSD/Mac68k
Booter" with the location of your bsd.rd kernel and boot into the installer.
Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.mac68k for more details.
-
+OpenBSD/mvme68k:
+
-
OpenBSD/mvme68k:
-
-
You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.
The network boot requires a MVME68K BUG version that supports the NIOT
and NBO debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme68k
for more details.
-
+OpenBSD/mvme88k:
+
-
OpenBSD/mvme88k:
-
-
You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.
The network boot requires a MVME88K BUG version that supports the NIOT
and NBO debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme88k
for more details.
-
+OpenBSD/sgi:
+
-
OpenBSD/sgi:
-
-
Burn cd39.iso on a CD-R, put it in the CD drive of your machine and
select Install System Software from the System Maintenance menu.
@@ -527,45 +521,46 @@
If your machine doesn't have a CD drive, you can
setup a DHCP/tftp network server, and boot using "bootp()/bsd.rd".
Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
-
+OpenBSD/vax:
+
-
OpenBSD/vax:
-
Boot over the network via mopbooting as described in INSTALL.vax.
-
+OpenBSD/zaurus:
+
-
OpenBSD/zaurus:
-
-
Using the Linux built-in graphical ipkg installer, install the
openbsd39_arm.ipk package. Reboot, then run it. Read INSTALL.zaurus
for a few important details.
-
+
+
+
+Notes about the source code:
+
-
Notes about the source code:
-
-# mkdir -p /usr/src
-# cd /usr/src
-# tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz
-
-
sys.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
+
+
+# mkdir -p /usr/src/sys
+# cd /usr/src
# tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz
-
+
+
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
@@ -573,30 +568,32 @@
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.
-
-
-
+
+
-