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- OpenBSD/amd64 is an effort to port OpenBSD to AMD64-based systems.
+ OpenBSD/amd64 runs on AMD's Athlon-64 family of processors in 64-bit mode.
+ Note that OpenBSD/i386 also runs on these processors, but in 32-bit mode.
  </p>
+ <a href="#toc"></a>
+ <h3><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
  <p>
- This port is still in the beginning stages.
+ <ul>
+   <li><a href="#status">Current status</a>
+   <li><a href="#install">Getting and installing OpenBSD/amd64</a>
+ </ul>
  </p>
+ <hr>
+ <a name="status"></a>
+ <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
  <p>
- Please contact <a href="mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org">Theo de Raadt</a>
+ It can be expected to install and run with minimal difficulty on most current
- if you would like more
+ hardware.
- information.
+ <p>
+ A few problems exist with the bootblocks, kvm libraries, and some floating
+ point operations.  Obviously this is fairly new, so it will take time to
+ find other issues and fix them.
+ <p>
+ <hr>
+ <a name="install"></a>
+ <h3><font color="#0000e0">
+ <strong>Getting and installing OpenBSD/amd64:</strong>
+ </font></h3>
+ <p>
+ Snapshots are made available from time to time, in
+ <a href="ftp://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64">this location</a>
+ as well as in a few
+ <a href="ftp.html">mirrors</a>.
+ Here are the
+ <a href="ftp://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64/INSTALL.amd64">
+ OpenBSD/amd64 snapshot installation instructions
+ </a> as well.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ There are several installation media provided:
+ <ul>
+   <li><strong>CD boot</strong>
+   <p>
+   Booting off the CD provides an <i>El Torito</i> 2.88MB floppy image
+   that contains almost all OpenBSD drivers.
+   This also includes minimal USB support (storage devices and keyboard).<br>
+   For the latest list of drivers available on this image, take a look at the
+   <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/arch/amd64/conf/RAMDISK_CD?rev=HEAD">RAMDISK_CD</a>
+   kernel configuration file.
+   </p></li>
+   <li><strong>Floppy A</strong> (floppy34.fs)
+   <p>
+   This 1.44MB floppy image contains the most common drivers.
+   It is designed to cover the most typical PC. As a general rule, you will
+   find that the missing drivers are ones which need large microcodes to run,
+   such as for rare scsi cards, gigabit ethernet cards, or RAID devices.<br>
+   For the latest list of drivers available on this image, take a look at the
+   <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/arch/amd64/conf/RAMDISK?rev=HEAD">RAMDISK</a>
+   kernel configuration file.
+ </ul>
  </p>
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