Below you can find instructions for installing OpenBSD on a personal computer. The example below is catered towards installing on a X220 ThinkPad laptop. ## Requirements * USB device * Ethernet connection (with active internet) * A cup of coffee ## Before the Install Make sure you have the latest OpenBSD image formatted on your USB device and that your computer/laptop is set to boot from USB via the BIOS. ## Installation 1. Boot from USB 2. Choose Install 3. Keyboard layout: US 4. Hostname: x220 (or whatever you choose) 5. Network: em0 6. IPv4: autoconf 7. IPv6: none 8. Network interface: done 9. Password for root 10. Start sshd by default? Yes 11. X Window System start with xenodm? No 12. Setup user? username (setup user) 13. Allow root ssh login? No 14. Timezone 15. Which disk? Use internal 16. Encrypt root disk? No 17. Use WHOLE disk 18. Use AUTO layout 19. Which disk to initialize: done 20. Location of sets: http 21. HTTP Proxy URL? None 22. HTTP Server? 1 (Toronto) 23. Confirm again 24. Server directory? pub/OpenBSD/7.5/amd64 25. Set names? Done 26. Drink some coffee while it verifies (depends on network speed) 27. Location of sets? Done 28. Congrats! 29. Reboot and remove USB device