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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
30: cpus.
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1.6 ! deraadt 34: Note that <a href="i386.html">OpenBSD/i386</a> also runs on these
! 35: processors, but in 32-bit mode.
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1.4 deraadt 38: <a href="#toc"></a>
39: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><i>Table of contents</i></font></h3>
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1.4 deraadt 41: <ul>
42: <li><a href="#status">Current status</a>
43: <li><a href="#install">Getting and installing OpenBSD/amd64</a>
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48: <a name="status"></a>
49: <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
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52: It can be expected to install and run with minimal difficulty on most current
53: hardware.
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1.6 ! deraadt 57: The only major shortcoming at this time is that the kernel debugger is
! 58: somewhat poor.
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63: <h3><font color="#0000e0">
64: <strong>Getting and installing OpenBSD/amd64:</strong>
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68: Snapshots are made available from time to time, in
69: <a href="ftp://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64">this location</a>
70: as well as in a few
71: <a href="ftp.html">mirrors</a>.
72: Here are the
73: <a href="ftp://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64/INSTALL.amd64">
74: OpenBSD/amd64 snapshot installation instructions
75: </a> as well.
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1.4 deraadt 79: There are several installation media provided:
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81: <li><strong>CD boot</strong>
82: <p>
83: Booting off the CD provides an <i>El Torito</i> 2.88MB floppy image
84: that contains almost all OpenBSD drivers.
85: This also includes minimal USB support (storage devices and keyboard).<br>
86: For the latest list of drivers available on this image, take a look at the
87: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/arch/amd64/conf/RAMDISK_CD?rev=HEAD">RAMDISK_CD</a>
88: kernel configuration file.
89: </p></li>
90: <li><strong>Floppy A</strong> (floppy34.fs)
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92: This 1.44MB floppy image contains the most common drivers.
93: It is designed to cover the most typical PC. As a general rule, you will
94: find that the missing drivers are ones which need large microcodes to run,
95: such as for rare scsi cards, gigabit ethernet cards, or RAID devices.<br>
96: For the latest list of drivers available on this image, take a look at the
97: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/arch/amd64/conf/RAMDISK?rev=HEAD">RAMDISK</a>
98: kernel configuration file.
99: </ul>
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