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18: <h2><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/amd64</font></h2>
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1.4 deraadt 23: OpenBSD/amd64 runs on AMD's Athlon-64 family of processors in 64-bit mode.
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! 27: It also runs on the upcoming Intel ia32e processors which contain cloned
! 28: support for the AMD64 extensions, but since Intel left out support for
! 29: the page table NXE bit (No-EXecute) there is no W^X support on the Intel
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1.4 deraadt 34: Note that OpenBSD/i386 also runs on these processors, but in 32-bit mode.
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1.4 deraadt 37: <a href="#toc"></a>
38: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
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1.4 deraadt 40: <ul>
41: <li><a href="#status">Current status</a>
42: <li><a href="#install">Getting and installing OpenBSD/amd64</a>
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47: <a name="status"></a>
48: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
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51: It can be expected to install and run with minimal difficulty on most current
52: hardware.
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55: A few problems exist with the bootblocks, kvm libraries, and some floating
56: point operations. Obviously this is fairly new, so it will take time to
57: find other issues and fix them.
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62: <h3><font color="#0000e0">
63: <strong>Getting and installing OpenBSD/amd64:</strong>
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67: Snapshots are made available from time to time, in
68: <a href="ftp://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64">this location</a>
69: as well as in a few
70: <a href="ftp.html">mirrors</a>.
71: Here are the
72: <a href="ftp://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64/INSTALL.amd64">
73: OpenBSD/amd64 snapshot installation instructions
74: </a> as well.
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1.4 deraadt 78: There are several installation media provided:
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80: <li><strong>CD boot</strong>
81: <p>
82: Booting off the CD provides an <i>El Torito</i> 2.88MB floppy image
83: that contains almost all OpenBSD drivers.
84: This also includes minimal USB support (storage devices and keyboard).<br>
85: For the latest list of drivers available on this image, take a look at the
86: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/arch/amd64/conf/RAMDISK_CD?rev=HEAD">RAMDISK_CD</a>
87: kernel configuration file.
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89: <li><strong>Floppy A</strong> (floppy34.fs)
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91: This 1.44MB floppy image contains the most common drivers.
92: It is designed to cover the most typical PC. As a general rule, you will
93: find that the missing drivers are ones which need large microcodes to run,
94: such as for rare scsi cards, gigabit ethernet cards, or RAID devices.<br>
95: For the latest list of drivers available on this image, take a look at the
96: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/arch/amd64/conf/RAMDISK?rev=HEAD">RAMDISK</a>
97: kernel configuration file.
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