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Booting off the CD provides an El Torido 2.88MB floppy image

that contains almost all OpenBSD drivers.

<li>Floppy A:

This 1.44MB floppy image contains the most common drivers. As a general rule,

This 1.44MB floppy image contains the most common drivers. It is designed to

you will find that the missing drivers are ones which need large microcodes

cover the most typical PC. As a general rule, you will find that the missing

to run. This includes a few of the more rare scsi cards, gigabit ethernet

drivers are ones which need large microcodes to run, such as for rare scsi

cards, or RAID devices.

cards, gigabit ethernet cards, or RAID devices.

<li>Floppy B:

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.

This media is designed to help people setting up modern server type systems.

In particular, support for most PCMCIA devices are missing, as are really

It contains support for pretty much all the SCSI and RAID drivers, gigabit

ancient hardware devices. In some ways, this media is designed to help people

ethernet cards, and such. Due to space considerations, you will find that

setting up modern server type systems, since it contains almost all the SCSI

some other drivers are missing. In particular, support for most PCMCIA devices

and RAID drivers.

are missing, as are really ancient hardware devices.

<li>Floppy C:

This 1.44MB floppy image contains many cardbus and pcmcia device drivers. It

This 1.44MB floppy image contains many cardbus and pcmcia device drivers. This

is an excellent choice to use for laptops. In most cases, one would discover

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.

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