Installing OpenBSD on Oracle Cloud
2022-10-22T13:20:25.538Z.
This article describes the steps of installing OpenBSD on Oracle Cloud.
Create compute instance
OpenBSD 7.2 (amd64) can boot on Oracle Cloud. Create a computer instance.
This article assumes an instance of VM.Standard.E2.1.Micro
shape with Ubuntu 22.04 image is used for the installation.
Boot from installation image
Connect to the compute instance over SSH. Download the installation image,
for example, miniroot72.img, then write the installation
image to the disk:
curl -O 'https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.2/amd64/miniroot72.img' # As root: # sudo su -l dd if=miniroot72.img of=/dev/sda
Launch Cloud Shell connection. Once the connection is ready, reboot the instance.
In the boot prompt, configure the active console device to
com0:
set tty com0 boot
Install OpenBSD
Continue the installation as per described in the official installation guide. To initialize the disk:
fdisk -gy -b 960 sd0
Full disk encryption works as expected.
The installer asks whether com0 should be used as the default
console device. According to testing, it is not necessary. Note that when
booting the kernel to single-user, com0 should be used,
otherwise (again, according to testing) the boot screen would hang at some
point.