dnl $OpenBSD: install,v 1.2 2013/10/15 13:28:07 miod Exp $ OpenBSDInstallPrelude There are several ways to install OpenBSD onto a disk. The easiest way in terms of preliminary setup is to use the OpenBSD ramdisk kernel that can be booted over the network, or from an existing DG/UX setup. Booting from Network: OpenBSD/MACHINE can boot off any network interface supported by the machine PROM (SCM), even if the device itself is not supported by OpenBSD. Your MACHINE expects to be able to download the installation kernel via TFTP, after having acquired its IP address through reverse ARP when instructed to boot from a network interface. It will look on the TFTP server for a filename composed of the machine's IP address in hexadecimal. For example, a machine which has been assigned IP address 130.115.144.11, will make a TFTP request for `8273900B'. Normally, this file is a symbolic link to the OpenBSD installation kernel in ECOFF format, bsd.rd.xcf, which should be located in a place where the TFTP daemon can find it (remember, many TFTP daemons run in a chroot'ed environment). Booting from DG/UX: The OpenBSD installation kernel can be booted from the DG/UX boot loader, if installed on a DG/UX partition. This is as easy as copying bsd.rd.xcf to a DG/UX partition, and boot it explicitely, as in: SCM> b sd()bsd.rd.xcf if it the installation kernel has been copied to the root partition, or SCM> b sd()partition_name:/bsd.rd.xcf if it has been copied to a different partition (such as `usr'). dnl document tape boot once the bootloader is st(4) capable dnl dnl Installing using the tape or netboot procedure: Installing using the DG/UX or network boot procedure: OpenBSDInstallPart2 Boot your machine from the installation media as described above. It will take a while to load the kernel especially from a slow network connection, 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 media is bad, your diskless setup isn't correct, or you may have a hardware or configuration problem. OpenBSDInstallPart3(,"sd0") OpenBSDInstallPart4 OpenBSDInstallPart5 OpenBSDInstallPart6({:-CD-ROM, tape, NFS, -:}) OpenBSDURLInstall OpenBSDCDROMInstall OpenBSDNFSInstall OpenBSDDISKInstall(,{:-only -:}) dnl OpenBSDTAPEInstall(2) once we have bootable tapes OpenBSDTAPEInstall OpenBSDCommonInstall OpenBSDInstallWrapup OpenBSDCongratulations