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! Booting off the CD provides an El Torito 2.88MB floppy image
! that contains almost all OpenBSD drivers. This also includes minimal USB
! support (umass and ukbd devices).
! For the latest list of drivers available on this image, take a look at the
!
! RAMDISK_CD config file.
!
! 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.
! For the latest list of drivers available on this image, take a look at the
!
! RAMDISK config file.
!
! This 1.44MB floppy image contains the drivers that are missing on Floppy A.
! This media is designed to help people setting up modern server type systems.
! It contains support for pretty much all the SCSI and RAID drivers, gigabit
! ethernet cards, and such. 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.
! For the latest list of drivers available on this image, take a look at the
!
! RAMDISKB config file.
!
! This 1.44MB floppy image contains many cardbus and pcmcia device drivers. This
! media is designed for installing on laptops. In most cases, one would discover
! that Floppy A also works, but the odd laptop might benefit more from using this
! image.
! For the latest list of drivers available on this image, take a look at the
!
! RAMDISKC config file.
! Use the method that works best for you. !
! OpenBSD does not currently support multiple processors (SMP), but will run ! using one processor on a multi-processor system board.
Most laptops are supported. We have a page ! that details the specifics of most common laptops.
The list of supported hardware is relevant to OpenBSD-current. It will differ slightly from the support provided in the latest release version. !
! All CPU chips compatible with the Intel 80386 (i386) architecture:
! Buses
! Bus interfaces
! Entropy sources
! Disk Controllers
! PCI IDE Controllers (pciide)
!
! OpenBSD/i386 runs on the standard PC's and clones, with a wide variety ! of processors, I/O bus architectures and peripherals supported. !
! ! !
! The OpenBSD/i386 port has been present since the inception of the project. ! Over the years, more and more hardware support has been written ! specifically for OpenBSD (such as the cryptographic accelerator drivers), ! or adapted from FreeBSD and NetBSD. !
!! It can be expected to install and run with minimal difficulty on most current ! hardware. ! Machines using custom BIOS (such as older proprietary PC's, laptops, and some ! specialized server machines) may cause problems. !
! Although OpenBSD/i386 does not currently support multiple processors (SMP), ! it will run on multi-processor system boards, using only one processor. !
+ Through its binary compatibility layer, OpenBSD/i386 can run Linux, FreeBSD, + BSD/OS, SVR4 (including Solaris) and IBCS2 binaries, to some extent. Most + applications will work flawlessly. +
+ ++ X-Window support is available for most graphics cards, using either recent + XFree (as of OpenBSD 3.2, 4.2.1) servers whenever possible, + or XFree 3.3.6 servers otherwise. +
+ ++ OpenBSD/i386 can be installed to share the system disks with other operating + systems, such as MS-DOS, Windows or Linux, using the MBR/partition table + scheme, and an optional boot selector program. + Everyday operation is trouble free, but setup requires care, and several + operating systems, such as Windows 95, are known to be careless about + pre-existing MBR information. +
+ ++ Also, some laptop computers use a specific partition as suspend-to-disk + storage, which should not be clobbered. +
+ ++ More details on this process can be found in the + Installation Guide and + Disk Setup Manual. +
+ ++ Snapshots are made available from time to time, in + this location + as well as in a few + mirrors. + Here are the + + OpenBSD/i386 snapshot installation instructions + as well. +
+ ++ There are several installation media provided: +
+ Booting off the CD provides an El Torito 2.88MB floppy image
+ that contains almost all OpenBSD drivers.
+ This also includes minimal USB support (storage devices and keyboard).
+ For the latest list of drivers available on this image, take a look at the
+ RAMDISK_CD
+ kernel configuration file.
+
+ 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.
+ For the latest list of drivers available on this image, take a look at the
+ RAMDISK
+ kernel configuration file.
+
+ This 1.44MB floppy image contains some drivers that are missing from
+ Floppy A.
+ This media is designed to help people setting up modern server type systems.
+ It contains support for pretty much all the SCSI and RAID drivers, gigabit
+ ethernet cards, and such.
+ Due to space considerations, you will find that some other drivers are
+ missing. In particular, support for most PCMCIA devices is missing, as
+ for really ancient hardware devices.
+ For the latest list of drivers available on this image, take a look at the
+ RAMDISKB
+ kernel configuration file.
+
+ This 1.44MB floppy image contains many cardbus and PCMCIA device drivers.
+ This media is designed for installing on laptops.
+ In most cases, one would discover that Floppy A also works, but the odd
+ laptop might benefit more from using this image.
+ For the latest list of drivers available on this image, take a look at the
+ RAMDISKC
+ kernel configuration file.
+
Most laptops are supported. We have a page ! that details the specifics of some common laptops. !
The list of supported hardware is relevant to OpenBSD-current. It will differ slightly from the support provided in the latest release version. +
!!
! OpenBSD does not currently support multiple processors (SMP), but will run ! using one processor on a multi-processor system board. !
! !! All CPU chips compatible with the Intel 80386 (i386) architecture are ! supported:
+ Regular floating-point coprocessors, when not built-in the processor, + are also supported. If no floating-point hardware is present in the system, + OpenBSD can use software emulation. +
+ +Everything that is a clone of the 386 or up should work fine. The only CPU that is known to work poorly (due to flawed motherboard designs) is the Cyrix 386DLC. +
++
+
+
+
+
! SCSI Host Adapters
+
! RAID and Cache Controllers
+
! CD-ROM and DVD-ROM Drives
+
! Tape Drives
! Display Adapters
! Serial Ports
+
+
+
! Parallel Ports
! Communications Controllers
+
+
! Ethernet Adapters
+
Please be aware that many NE2000 adapters fail or perform very poorly. We do not recommend using them, but your mileage may vary.
! Wireless Ethernet Adapters
+
! Gigabit Ethernet Adapters
+
! ATM Adapters
! FDDI Adapters
! WAN Adapters
! Cryptography Accelerators
+
+
+ +
+
+
! PC Cards (PCMCIA (B) and CardBus (B) (C))
! Universal Serial Bus (USB) Devices (A) (B) (C)
+
! Pointing Devices (G)
! Sound Devices (G)
+
+
The following drivers are not extensively tested:
! Radio Receiver Devices (radio)
+
! Miscellaneous Devices
+
! Many kinds of ISA Plug-and-Play cards
!
! ISAPNP Cards
Roughly said, the following cards definitely work. Others may work as well; support is continually being improved.
+
!
Roughly said, the following cards definitely work. Others may work as well; support is continually being improved.
(G) Drivers for hardware marked with (G) are only included in *************** *** 1048,1057 **** GENERIC kernel, and will require you to compile a custom kernel to enable it.
!! Unsupported hardware may be supported in the future, and your ! donation of time, hardware, or documentation ! can accelerate this support!
! If you are looking for to test new pre-release features, you can ! try one of the snapshots. For the i386 architecture, ! snapshots are made available from time to time. ! !