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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