1dnl $OpenBSD: install,v 1.13 2009/05/13 18:38:29 miod Exp $ 2OpenBSDInstallPrelude 3 4If OpenBSD will be sharing the disk with another operating system, 5you should have already completed the section of these notes that 6instructed you on how to prepare your hard disk. You should know 7the size of the OpenBSD area of the disk and its offset from the 8beginning of the disk. You will need this information when setting up 9your OpenBSD partitions. 10 11There are several ways to install OpenBSD onto a disk. The easiest way, 12should your computer support it, is to boot off the OpenBSD CD-ROM, or 13off the bootable CD-ROM mini image. Otherwise, you can boot from a 3.5" 141.44MB floppy disk if your machine has a floppy drive. If your machine 15supports PXE network boots, you could try to configure a server for a 16network install. 17 18OpenBSDInstallPart2 19 20 If you are using CD-ROM or floppy media, ensure the disk is in 21 the drive before starting. 22 23 Reboot the computer to begin the install. You might have to play 24 with your BIOS options to get the computer to boot from the 25 correct installation media (floppy, CD, or network/PXE) rather 26 than from the hard disk. 27 28 If you are installing across the network with PXE, you will need 29 to tell pxeboot to get the bsd.rd install kernel: 30 31 boot> boot bsd.rd 32 33 It can take a while to load the kernel from a floppy, slow speed 34 CD-ROM drive, or across a network, most likely more than a minute. 35 If some action doesn't eventually happen, or the spinning cursor 36 has stopped and nothing further has happened, either your boot 37 floppy is bad or you are having hardware problems. If trying 38 another floppy disk doesn't help, try booting after disabling your 39 CPU's internal and external caches (if any). If it still doesn't 40 work, OpenBSD probably can't be run on your hardware. This can 41 probably be considered a bug, so you might want to report it. If 42 you do, please {:-include-:} as many details about your system 43 configuration as you can. 44 45OpenBSDInstallPart3 46 47OpenBSDInstallPart4 48 49OpenBSDInstallMBRPart1 50 51OpenBSDInstallMBRPart2(yup) 52 53OpenBSDInstallPart5({:- 54 If you have DOS or Linux partitions defined on the disk, these 55 will usually show up as partition 'i', 'j' and so on.-:}) 56 57OpenBSDInstallPart6({:-CD-ROM, -:}) 58 59OpenBSDURLInstall 60 61OpenBSDCDROMInstall 62 63OpenBSDDISKInstall({:-"wdN" or -:},,{:- or MS-DOS-:}) 64 65OpenBSDCommonInstall 66 67OpenBSDTAPEInstall 68 69OpenBSDInstallWrapup 70 71OpenBSDCongratulations 72