- Advance Praise for Absolute OpenBSD, 2nd Edition
- Dedication
- About the Author
- About the Technical Reviewer
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Getting Additional Help
- 2. Installation Preparations
- 3. Installation Walk-Through
- 4. Post-Install Setup
- 5. The Boot Process
- 6. User Management
- 7. Root, and How to Avoid It
- The Root Password
- Using Groups
- Hiding Root with sudo
- Using sudo
- sudoedit
- The Biggest sudo Mistake: Exclusions
- sudo Logs
- 8. Disks and Filesystems
- Device Nodes
- DUIDs and /etc/fstab
- MBR Partitions and fdisk(8)
- Labeling Disks
- The Fast File System
- What’s Currently Mounted?
- Mounting and Unmounting Partitions
- How Full Is That Partition?
- Adding New Hard Disks
- 9. More Filesystems
- 10. Securing Your System
- 11. Overview of TCP/IP
- 12. Connecting to the Network
- 13. Software Management
- 14. Everything /etc
- /etc Across Unix Variants
- The /etc Files
- /etc/adduser.conf
- /etc/amd
- /etc/authpf
- /etc/bgpd.conf
- /etc/boot.conf
- /etc/changelist
- /etc/chio.conf
- /etc/csh.*
- /etc/daily and /etc/daily.local
- /etc/dhclient.conf
- /etc/dhcpd.conf
- /etc/disklabels/
- /etc/disktab
- /etc/dumpdates
- /etc/dvmrpd.conf
- /etc/exports
- /etc/fbtab
- /etc/firmware
- /etc/fonts/
- /etc/fstab
- /etc/ftpchroot
- /etc/ftpusers
- /etc/gettytab
- /etc/group
- /etc/hostapd.conf
- /etc/hostname.*
- /etc/hosts
- /etc/hosts.equiv
- /etc/hosts.lpd
- /etc/hotplug/
- /etc/ifstated.conf
- /etc/iked/, /etc/iked.conf, /etc/ipsec.conf, and /etc/isakmpd
- /etc/inetd.conf
- /etc/kbdtype
- /etc/kerberosV/
- /etc/ksh.kshrc
- /etc/ldap/ and /etc/ldapd.conf
- /etc/localtime
- /etc/locate.rc
- /etc/login.conf
- /etc/lynx.cfg
- /etc/magic
- /etc/mail/
- /etc/mail.rc
- /etc/mailer.conf
- /etc/man.conf
- /etc/master.passwd, /etc/passwd, /etc/spwd.db, and /etc/pwd.db
- /etc/mixerctl.conf
- /etc/mk.conf
- /etc/moduli
- /etc/monthly and /etc/monthly.local
- /etc/motd
- /etc/mrouted.conf
- /etc/mtree/
- /etc/mygate
- /etc/myname
- /etc/netstart
- /etc/networks
- /etc/newsyslog.conf
- /etc/nginx/
- /etc/nsd.conf
- /etc/ntpd.conf
- /etc/ospf6d.conf and /etc/ospfd.conf
- /etc/pf.conf and /etc/pf.os
- /etc/ppp/
- /etc/printcap
- /etc/protocols
- /etc/rbootd.conf
- /etc/rc.*
- /etc/relayd.conf
- /etc/remote
- /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/resolv.conf.tail
- /etc/ripd.conf
- /etc/rmt
- /etc/rpc
- /etc/sasyncd.conf
- /etc/sensorsd.conf
- /etc/services
- /etc/shells
- /etc/skel/
- /etc/sliphome/
- /etc/snmpd.conf
- /etc/ssh/
- /etc/ssl/
- /etc/sudoers
- /etc/sysctl.conf
- /etc/syslog.conf
- /etc/systrace/
- /etc/termcap
- /etc/ttys
- /etc/weekly and /etc/weekly.local
- /etc/wsconsctl.conf
- /etc/X11
- /etc/ypldap.conf
- 15. System Maintenance
- 16. Network Servers
- 17. Desktop OpenBSD
- 18. Kernel Configuration
- 19. Building Custom Kernels
- 20. Upgrading
- 21. Packet Filtering
- 22. Advanced PF
- 23. Customizing OpenBSD
- A. Afterword
- Index
- About the Author
- Copyright
Other Information
If this machine is going to be on the Internet, you must know its network configuration before starting. If your network has DHCP, you’re all set. If not, you need a valid IP address, netmask, default gateway, and name server IP addresses.
Decide in advance if this machine will run the X Window System. Generally, desktops run X and servers do not.
At this point, you have all the background you need to install OpenBSD on i386 or amd64 hardware. Break out your equipment, and let’s get started.
[5] Yes, that’s megabytes—you know, the unit below gigabytes. Yes, megabytes can apply to disks.
[6] I’m assured by OpenBSD developers that any fdisk should suffice for any operating system. Having been repeatedly savaged by buggy fdisk programs, I find myself unable to give you carte blanche to try this.
[7] Yes, you can make flash drives spin. But a flash drive doing 5400 RPM has a whole set of problems beyond the scope of normal systems administration.
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