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1.280 bentley 14: <i>Open</i><b>BSD</b></a>
15: amd64
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1.113 nick 21: OpenBSD/amd64 runs on AMD's Athlon-64 family of processors in 64-bit mode.
1.182 deraadt 22: It also runs on processors made by other manufacturers which have cloned
1.266 naddy 23: the AMD64 extensions.
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1.113 nick 26: Note that <a href="i386.html">OpenBSD/i386</a> also runs on these
27: processors, but in 32-bit mode.
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1.259 deraadt 29: <p>
1.211 deraadt 30: X Window System support is available for most graphics cards, using
31: the X.Org server. As with other free operating systems it is highly recommended
1.214 deraadt 32: that Nvidia cards are avoided since this vendor continues to show tremendous
1.212 deraadt 33: resistance towards releasing information that would allow X.Org to support their
1.213 jasper 34: hardware properly.
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1.280 bentley 39: <h3 id="status"><strong>Current status:</strong></h3>
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1.113 nick 42: The only major shortcoming at this time is that the kernel debugger
1.280 bentley 43: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/amd64/ddb.4">ddb</a>
1.113 nick 44: is somewhat poor.
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1.280 bentley 48: <h3 id="hardware"><strong>Supported hardware:</strong></h3>
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1.113 nick 50: <h4>Processors</h4>
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1.113 nick 53: All versions of the AMD Athlon 64 processors and their clones are
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1.280 bentley 56: <h3>Unsupported Hardware:</h3>
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1.281 deraadt 59: New hardware is constantly being released, some of which may lack support.
1.244 tedu 60: Your <a href="donations.html">donation of time, hardware, or documentation</a>
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1.280 bentley 65: <h3 id="install">
1.113 nick 66: <strong>Getting and installing OpenBSD/amd64:</strong>
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1.113 nick 70: The latest supported OpenBSD/amd64 release is
1.288 ! tj 71: <a href="70.html">OpenBSD 7.0</a>.
1.113 nick 72: Here are the
1.288 ! tj 73: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/amd64/INSTALL.amd64">
1.273 tj 74: OpenBSD/amd64 installation instructions</a>.
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1.113 nick 77: Snapshots are made available from time to time, in
1.278 tj 78: <a href="https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64">this location</a>
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1.113 nick 80: <a href="ftp.html">mirrors</a>.
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1.278 tj 82: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64/INSTALL.amd64">
1.268 tb 83: OpenBSD/amd64 snapshot installation instructions</a> as well.
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1.113 nick 86: There are several installation media provided:
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1.288 ! tj 88: <li><strong>CD image</strong> (install70.iso)
1.17 deraadt 89: <br>
1.268 tb 90: The CD ISO provides an <i>El Torito</i> no-emulation boot image
1.157 tom 91: that includes almost all OpenBSD drivers.
1.113 nick 92: This also includes minimal USB support (storage devices and keyboard).<br>
93: For the latest list of drivers available on this image, take a look at the
1.277 bentley 94: <a href="https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/sys/arch/amd64/conf/RAMDISK_CD?rev=HEAD">RAMDISK_CD</a>
1.113 nick 95: kernel configuration file.
1.288 ! tj 96: <li><strong>Disk image</strong> (miniroot70.img)
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1.268 tb 98: The same installer as the CD ISO, but in a form suitable for creating bootable
1.254 tedu 99: hard drives or USB flash drives.
1.288 ! tj 100: <li><strong>Floppy A</strong> (floppy70.img)
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1.113 nick 102: This 1.44MB floppy image contains the most common drivers.
103: It is designed to cover the most typical PC. As a general rule, you will
104: find that the missing drivers are ones which need large microcodes to run,
105: such as for rare SCSI cards, gigabit ethernet cards, or RAID devices.<br>
106: For the latest list of drivers available on this image, take a look at the
1.277 bentley 107: <a href="https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/sys/arch/amd64/conf/RAMDISK?rev=HEAD">RAMDISK</a>
1.113 nick 108: kernel configuration file.
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