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  See the Installation Notes for more details.
  <p>
+ <h3><font color=#0000e0>Install media</font></h3>
+ A number of install options exist:
+ <ul>
+ <li><strong>CD boot:</strong><p>
+ Booting off the CD provides an El Torido 2.88MB floppy image
+ that contains almost all OpenBSD drivers.<p>
+ <li><strong>Floppy A:</strong><p>
+ This 1.44MB floppy image contains the most common drivers.  As a general rule,
+ you will find that the missing drivers are ones which need large microcodes
+ to run.  This includes a few of the more rare scsi cards, gigabit ethernet
+ cards, or RAID devices.<p>
+ <li><strong>Floppy B:</strong><p>
+ This 1.44MB floppy image contains the drivers that are missing on Floppy A.
+ Due to space considerations, you will find that some other drivers are missing.
+ In particular, support for most PCMCIA devices are missing, as are really
+ ancient hardware devices.  In some ways, this media is designed to help people
+ setting up modern server type systems, since it contains almost all the SCSI
+ and RAID drivers.<p>
+ <li><strong>Floppy C:</strong><p>
+ This 1.44MB floppy image contains many cardbus and pcmcia device drivers.  It
+ is an excellent choice to use for laptops.  In most cases, one would discover
+ that Floppy A also works, but the odd laptop might benefit more from using this
+ image.<p>
+ </ul>
+ <p>
+ Use the method that works best for you.
+ <p>
  <h3><font color=#0000e0>Binary compatibility with other Operating Systems:</font></h3>
  The OpenBSD/i386 port can run Linux, FreeBSD, BSD/OS,
  SVR4 (including Solaris), and IBCS2 binaries.