Initial support for guided disk encryption in the installer.

The OpenBSD installer now has basic support for configuring disk encryption during the regular installation process. Previously, disk encryption needed to be set up manually by dropping to the shell from the installer. Initial support, likely to be expanded upon, was committed by Klemens Nanni (kn@) on March 7, 2023...

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230308063109

#security #encryption #install

Is OpenBSD for you?

This blog post is a step by step wizard for those who think about using OpenBSD as a primary OS and daily driver, but don't know if it meets the requirements. I am trying to focus on desktop/laptop use in this case...

https://mizik.eu/blog/is-openbsd-for-you/index.html

#system #hardware #install

AWS Gazo bot.

Scripts to create, customize and upload AWS images to the cloud. This is a work in progress, I'm trying to create OpenBSD images from Linux, specially using arm64 and riscv64 for AWS since OpenBSD has no vmm support for arm64 nor riscv64 yet...

https://github.com/csaltos/aws-gazo-bot

Based on the scripts created by Antoine Jacoutot at https://github.com/ajacoutot/aws-openbsd

#aws #cloud #install

Install OpenBSD 7.3 on Proxmox (BIOS/UEFI and Cloud-init).

I thought it was an opportunity to take stock of the different methods of installing OpenBSD on our favorite hypervisor. We will consider different scenarios depending on the types of BIOS available under Proxmox (OVMF, SEABIOS); different OpenBSD installation images; and, finally, we'll talk about the thorny subject of OpenBSD's compatibility with Cloud-init...

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/install-openbsd-7-3-on-proxmox-bios-uefi-and-cloud-init.133063/

#virtualization #proxmox #install