OpenBSD non richiede un cd "live" e se vuoi sbagliare dal lato paranoico dovresti prendere in considerazione la creazione del tuo "live" seguendo il proprio FAQs :
It is very easy to create a bootable USB flash (or other!) drive that can be used as a "live" OpenBSD system without installing OpenBSD on the local hard disk of a machine. Obviously, the target machine must be bootable from a USB device, but the initial load can actually be done from any machine with a USB interface.
Vantaggi: se hai installato OpenBSD puoi verificare l'autenticità del file bsd.rd
controllandolo con le chiavi pubbliche incorporate in ogni distribuzione (vedi questo documento ma anche google per openbsd signify
):
After each release of OpenBSD, we generate a new key pair for the release after next. That's plus two. For example, after 5.6 was released, keys for 5.8 were generated. This way, the 5.8 keys are then included in the 5.7 release. So, if you upgrade every release, you will have an unbroken chain of keys back to your initial installation.
Se non hai installato OpenBSD e vuoi solo verificare la compatibilità hardware, scarica (e verifica!) il file bsd.rd
, dd
su un supporto portatile, quindi esegui il boot e provalo .