Chapter 2. Installation Preparations

I am script kiddie. Windows is warm and tasty; blowfish goes down hard.

It’s not enough to install OpenBSD and get the machine running; you want a successful installation. A successful installation means that the system is configured to perform the job you intend it to do. A developer’s laptop has very different requirements than those of a dedicated firewall, which might look very different from a web server. Proper planning will make your OpenBSD installation quick, easy, and successful. We’ll spend a great deal of time on installation planning. Once you understand what you’re doing, the actual ...

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