Hardware Setup
Before you begin, verify that OpenBSD supports your hardware. You’ll find the supported hardware list for the most recent version of OpenBSD on the platform-specific pages of the OpenBSD website (http://www.OpenBSD.org/i386.html for i386 and http://www.OpenBSD.org/amd64.html for amd64), listing hardware that has been verified to work by the OpenBSD team.
If you find that your hardware isn’t listed, it might still run OpenBSD. In fact, a lot of unsupported hardware will run OpenBSD perfectly, but not all hardware has been tested, simply because the OpenBSD team doesn’t have access to all hardware ever manufactured. If you’re worried about a particular device, search the mailing list archives to see if it’s supported.
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