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armish
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OpenBSD/armish runs on various ARM-based appliances,
using the Redboot bootloader (and which boot Linux by default).

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<b>The OpenBSD/armish port was discontinued after the 6.0 release.</b>
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<h3 id="history"><strong>History:</strong></h3>

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OpenBSD/armish is the 3rd OpenBSD port to ARM based machines, after
<a href="cats.html">cats</a> and <a href="zaurus.html">zaurus</a>.
It is intended to support a variety of rather similar ARM-based
machines:

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<li><a href="http://www.quantum.com/ServiceandSupport/SoftwareandDocumentationDownloads/DPA/Index.aspx">
    Certance CP3100</a>
<li><a href="http://www.thecus.com/product.php?PROD_ID=1">
    Thecus N2100</a> (plus rebadged versions: Allnet ALL6500, Evesham SilverSTOR M-Box)
<li><a href="http://www.thecus.com/product.php?PROD_ID=2">
    Thecus N4100</a> (plus rebadged versions: Allnet ALL6400, Evesham SilverSTOR XS)
<li>IO-DATA HDL-Gxxx, HDL-GWxxx, and HDL-GZxxx series
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    <li>These models are a subset of the "Giga-landisk" product line, but the
    HDL-GXxxx models are not compatible (use Marvell CPUs).
    <li>The standard "landisk" (100mbit) machines are instead supported by the
    <a href="landisk.html">landisk</a> architecture.
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<h3 id="status"><strong>Current status:</strong></h3>

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<li>The Thecus N2100 runs multiuser and boots from disk using its own
bootloader, or from the network using built-in Redboot.
<li>The IO-DATA HDL-G series is multiuser and will soon be able to
boot from disk as well.
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<strong>Getting and installing OpenBSD/armish</strong>
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The last supported OpenBSD/armish release was
<a href="59.html">OpenBSD 5.9</a>.
Here are the
<a href="https://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.9/armish/INSTALL.armish">
OpenBSD/armish 5.9 installation instructions</a>.