1dnl $OpenBSD: xfer,v 1.35 2020/05/17 17:04:27 deraadt Exp $ 2Installation is supported from several media types, including: 3 4 CD-ROM 5 FFS partitions 6 HTTP 7 8If you can burn the bootable CD-ROM mini image, you can boot from it. 9 10OpenBSDXferCDROM 11 12If you do not have a CD-ROM drive on your alpha: 13 14 You can copy the miniroot image onto the hard disk you intend to 15 install OpenBSD on. Doing so will overwrite the disk's old contents, 16 however. 17 18 You must use a Unix-like system to write the miniroot image 19 to the hard disk you will be using for OpenBSD/MACHINE. You 20 should use the "dd" command to copy the file system image 21 (miniroot{:--:}OSrev.img) directly to the raw 'c' 22 device (whole disk) of the target hard disk. It is suggested 23 that you read the dd(1) manual page or ask your system 24 administrator to determine the correct set of arguments to use; 25 it will be slightly different from system to system, and a 26 comprehensive list of the possibilities is beyond the scope of 27 this document. 28 29OpenBSDXferShortPrelude 30 31OpenBSDXferFFS 32