Before you start you should familiarize yourself with the boot PROM of your machine. The older Decstation 2100 and 3100 cannot select a kernel from the command line. You need to set the bootpath environment variable to point to the disk and kernel you intend to boot. You should also examine the guide on the OpenBSD/pmax web site, which will hopefully soon have more complete and more up-to-date instructions than are given in the install document. I will try to put there all the corrections to this document in the future. If you're installing OpenBSD/pmax for the first time it's a very good idea to look at the partition sizes of disk you intend installing OpenBSD on. Changing the size of partitions after you've installed is difficult. If you do not have a spare bootable disk, it may be simpler to re-install OpenBSD again from scratch. But if you don't have a second disk or plan to do an installation via netbooting you don't have any choice about the partition sizes (at least not for the root and the swap partitions) because they are set in the simpleroot image to 40M for root and 64M for swap. About the rest of your disk you can still decide yourself. Assuming a classic partition scheme with root (`/') and /usr filesystems, a comfortable size for the OpenBSD root filesystem partition is about 32M; a good initial size for the swap partition is twice the amount of physical memory in your machine (though, unlike Ultrix, there are no restrictions on the size of the swap partition that would render part of your memory unusable). A full binary installation, without X11 or other additional software, takes about 130MB in `/usr'.