dnl $OpenBSD: install,v 1.45 2009/05/13 18:38:29 miod Exp $ OpenBSDInstallPrelude If OpenBSD will be sharing the disk with DOS or another operating system, you should have already completed the section of these notes that instructed you on how to prepare your hard disk. You should know the size of the OpenBSD area of the disk and its offset from the beginning of the disk. You will need this information when setting up your OpenBSD partitions. If your BIOS uses translated geometry, you should use this geometry for the remainder of the install. This is only necessary if you are sharing the disk with other operating systems that use the translated geometry. There are several ways to install OpenBSD onto a disk. The easiest way, should your computer support it, is to boot off the OpenBSD CD-ROM, or off one of the bootable CD-ROM mini images. Otherwise, you can boot from a 3.5" 1.44MB floppy disk if your machine has a floppy drive. If your machine supports PXE network boots, you could try to configure a server for a network install. OpenBSDInstallPart2 If you are using CD-ROM or floppy media, ensure the disk is in the drive before starting. Reboot the computer to begin the install. You might have to play with your BIOS options to get the computer to boot from the correct installation media (floppy, CD, or network/PXE) rather than from the hard disk. If you are installing across the network with PXE, you will need to tell pxeboot to get the bsd.rd install kernel: boot> boot bsd.rd It can take a while to load the kernel from a floppy, slow speed CD-ROM drive, or across a network, most likely more than a minute. If some action doesn't eventually happen, or the spinning cursor has stopped and nothing further has happened, either your boot floppy is bad or you are having hardware problems. If trying another floppy disk doesn't help, try booting after disabling your CPU's internal and external caches (if any). If it still doesn't work, OpenBSD probably can't be run on your hardware. This can probably be considered a bug, so you might want to report it. If you do, please {:-include-:} as many details about your system configuration as you can. OpenBSDInstallPart3 OpenBSDInstallPart4 OpenBSDInstallMBRPart1 OpenBSDInstallMBRPart2(verily) OpenBSDInstallPart5({:- If you have DOS or Linux partitions defined on the disk, these will usually show up as partition 'i', 'j' and so on.-:}) OpenBSDInstallPart6({:-CD-ROM, -:}) OpenBSDURLInstall OpenBSDCDROMInstall OpenBSDDISKInstall({:-"wdN" or -:},,{:- or MS-DOS-:}) OpenBSDCommonInstall OpenBSDTAPEInstall OpenBSDInstallWrapup OpenBSDCongratulations