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Installation with Other Operating Systems:

! The OpenBSD/i386 port can be installed to share the system disks with ! other operating systems such as MS-DOS, Windows or Linux using the MS-DOS ! MBR/partition scheme and an optional boot selector. Everyday operation is ! trouble free, but setup requires care and Windows '95 installation is known ! to be careless about pre-existing MBR/partition information. ! See the Installation Guide and ! Disk Setup Manual for more details. !

Install media

! A number of install options exist:

! Use the method that works best for you. !

Binary compatibility with other Operating Systems:

! The OpenBSD/i386 port can run Linux, FreeBSD, BSD/OS, ! SVR4 (including Solaris), and IBCS2 binaries. !

Supported Hardware:

! The OpenBSD/i386 port works across a broad range of standard PC's and clones, ! with a wide variety of processors and I/O bus architectures. It can be expected ! to install and run with minimal difficulty on most current products. ! The cases where problems may be encountered are typically older proprietary ! PC's, Laptops or specialized server boxes that rely on a custom BIOS to paper ! over implementation differences.

! 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. !


! Processors

! All CPU chips compatible with the Intel 80386 (i386) architecture:

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.

! Buses

The MCA bus found in various official IBM PCs is not supported.

! Bus interfaces

! Entropy sources

! Disk Controllers

! PCI IDE Controllers (pciide)

! CD-ROM and DVD-ROM Drives

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CD-ROM and DVD-ROM Drives

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Sony and Panasonic proprietary CD-ROM interfaces are not supported.

! Tape Drives

! Display Adapters

! Note that not all of the display adapters OpenBSD/i386 ! can work with are supported by X. ! (See the XFree86 FAQ for more information.)

! Serial Ports

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Tape Drives

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Display Adapters

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! Note that not all of the display adapters OpenBSD/i386 supports ! can be used under X-Window (please refer the ! XFree86 FAQ for more information). !

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Serial Ports

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! Parallel Ports

! Communications Controllers

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Ethernet Adapters

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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

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PC Cards (PCMCIA (B) and CardBus (B) (C))

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! Universal Serial Bus (USB) Devices (A) (B) (C)

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Universal Serial Bus (USB) Devices (A) (B) (C)

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! Pointing Devices (G)

! Sound Devices (G)

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Pointing Devices (G)

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Sound Devices (G)

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The following drivers are not extensively tested:

! Radio Receiver Devices (radio)

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Radio Receiver Devices (radio)

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! Miscellaneous Devices

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Miscellaneous Devices

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! Many kinds of ISA Plug-and-Play cards

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If a device does not work, be sure to mail the output of dmesg(8) to dmesg@openbsd.org, and we will try to add support. !

! ISAPNP Cards

Roughly said, the following cards definitely work. Others may work as well; support is continually being improved.

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ISAPNP Cards

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If a device does not work, be sure to mail the output of dmesg(8) to dmesg@openbsd.org, and we will try to add support. !

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Roughly said, the following cards definitely work. Others may work as well; support is continually being improved.

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(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.

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Unsupported Hardware

! Unsupported hardware may be supported in the future, your ! donation ! of time, hardware, or documentation can accelerate this support!
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! 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. ! !


! OpenBSD ! www@openbsd.org
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