Keep an existing partition/OS? (or space for a future one) Will the entire disk be used for OpenBSD, or do you want to.Will OpenBSD coexist on this system with another OS?.Does existing data need to be saved elsewhere?.

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They contain detailed instructions and any possible caveats: You may want to consult the platform-specific installation notes,Įspecially if you're using one of the non-x86 CPU architectures.

Verify compatibility with your hardware.

OpenBSD boot loaders are documented in the architecture-specificīefore you start, you should have some idea what you want to end up with.Ī few things worth considering beforehand: The following example would boot from the fourth partition of the second If you need to specify a different drive or partition, just prefix the This will boot the kernel named bsd.rd from the first partition The general method of booting bsd.rd is to change your boot kernelįrom /bsd to /bsd.rd through whatever means used onīooting from bsd.rd on an amd64 system can be done like so:

Place it on an existing filesystem, and boot from it. If you have a running OpenBSD system, bsd.rd is all you need to Not every platform supports all of these options. The ramdisk kernel can be booted from a number of different sources: These utilities can also be useful for disaster recovery. It contains the install script and a small number of utilities needed That spawns a live environment running entirely in memory. The OpenBSD installer uses a special ramdisk kernel ( bsd.rd)

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