Installation

Last updated: 2009-06-31

NOTE: This section is definitely a work in progress as I work out my preferred order of installation.

This document is intended as a index of the modules, features and the order I personally impliment them in.

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Guides:

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html

http://www.openbsd101.com/installation.html

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My Preferred Order of Install and Setup:

Use the following memo docs:

Installation (this document)

Install OpenBSD from CD and follow prompts

Create Disk Partitions

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After the initial install, and once SSH is working, I personally prefer to work from a remote terminal program such as PuTTY.

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Here are some of the important prompts to be sure to fill out, others are self explanitory or you select the defaults:

System host name: openbsd1

Conf network interface: yes

Available interfaces are: vr0

IPv4 address for vr0: 192.168.0.10 <this_machine_ip_address>

DNS Domain Name : hiltronix.com <your_domain_name>

DNS Name Server: 192.168.0.1 <router_ip_address>

Default IPv4 route: 192.168.0.1 <router_ip_address>

Password for root: <root_password>

Select sets ... Set name?

* Select the default base install unless you are planning to run X. Select "bsd.mp" for multi-processor and multi-core systems. Type "done" when finished making selections.

Start sshd by default: yes

Start ntpd by default: yes

NTPD server? (hostname...): 0.ca.pool.ntp.org

Timezone: Canada/Central

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OpenBSD Multi-Core CPU Kernel

OpenBSD Console Screen Saver

OpenBSD Networking

OpenBSD Time Server NTPD Setup

OpenBSD Ports

OpenBSD Bash Shell

Optional:
- OpenBSD Nano Text Editor (vi works well once you get used to it and it's installed by default)

OpenBSD wget

Create Some Helpful Symbolic Links:
# ln -s /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb /usr/bin/updatedb

OpenBSD Source Code

OpenBSD Source Code Patches

OpenBSD File System Journaling / Soft Updates

Do Acronis Backup for a restore point.

Optional:
- OpenBSD SSL (OpenBSD has it's own OpenSSL implimentation installed)

OpenBSD MySQL

OpenBSD Python

OpenBSD PHP

OpenBSD Lighttpd - Web Server Install

*** NOT RECOMMENDED - OpenBSD RAIDframe Arrays (if adding RAID)

OpenBSD WordPress

DNS and Bind

Samba

LDAP

Samba LDAP Tools

OpenBSD Postfix Mail Server

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