Getting Started

Getting installation Media
Grab a install media from the OpenBSD home page and burn it to a CD.

The installation process
Set your BIOS to boot from CD. Restart the computer with the CD in the drive. Press enter when a prompt appears. Press I. Follow the directions.

Reading Theo's Welcome email
cat /var/mail/root

Erata
FIXME: add something here

Change Root Password
passwd root

Verify System Date
date

Verify Hostname
hostname

Verify Network Interface and Routing Tables
ifconfig

Verify Disk Mounts and Swap
df

Keyboard type
FIXME: add something here

Printers
FIXME: add something here

Mail Aliases
FIXME: add something here

Sendmail
FIXME: add something here

Security Tweaks (optional)
chflags schg /bsd chflags schg /etc/changelist chflags schg /etc/daily chflags schg /etc/inetd.conf chflags schg /etc/netstart chflags schg /etc/pf.conf chflags schg /etc/rc chflags schg /etc/rc.conf chflags schg /etc/rc.local chflags schg /etc/rc.securelevel chflags schg /etc/rc.shutdown chflags schg /etc/security chflags schg /etc/mtree/special chflags -R schg /bin chflags -R schg /sbin chflags -R schg /usr/bin chflags -R schg /usr/libexec chflags -R schg /usr/sbin

Verify Crontab
cat /etc/crontab

Disable unnecessary daemons
Note: If you did set the "schg" flag on /etc/rc.conf (you should remember doing chflags schg /etc/rc.conf), run these commands instead: chflags noschg /etc/rc.conf vi /etc/rc.conf chflags schg /etc/rc.conf Otherwise: vi /etc/rc.conf

adduser
adduser passwd

visudo
visudo

Disable login for a specific user
chsh -s true