https://www.puppeteers.net/tags/openbsd/ Recent content in Openbsd on Puppeteers Oy Hugo en-US Wed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.puppeteers.net/blog/installing-openbsd-7-5-with-virt-install-on-linux/ Wed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.puppeteers.net/blog/installing-openbsd-7-5-with-virt-install-on-linux/ <h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2> <p><a href="https://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a> 7.5 is a UNIX-like operating system. The project&rsquo;s &ldquo;efforts emphasize portability, standardization, correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography&rdquo;. Compared to modern Linux distributions OpenBSD is <em>very</em> compact, but comes with the usual packages and ports tree you would expect from any *BSD operating system. This article shows the process of installing OpenBSD 7.5 with virt-install, making it a virtualization guest on Linux.</p> <h2 id="downloading-the-iso-installer">Downloading the ISO installer</h2> <p>First you need to download the OpenBSD 7.5 ISO installer on your Linux system. On most systems the amd64 <a href="https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.5/amd64/install75.iso">install75.iso</a> is the correct choice. Check the OpenBSD <a href="https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Download">download page</a> for other architectures.</p>