Basic installation of the OpenBSD 6.4 is straightforward. For most installer questions you just press Enter.

When OpenBSD is booted from instalation image, it will start ask questions:

Question Answer
Welcome to the OpenBSD/amd64 6.4 installation program.  
(I)nstall, (U)pgrade (A)utoinstall or (S)hell ? i
Choose your keyboard layout pl
System hostname openbsd64
Which network interface do you wish to configure? (or ‘done’) [em0] Hit Enter
IPv4 address for em0? (or ‘dhcp’ or ‘none’) [dhcp] Hit Enter
IPv4 address for em0? (or ‘autoconf’ or ‘none’) [none] Hit Enter
Which network interface do you wish to configure? (or ‘done’) [done] Hit Enter
Password for root account? (will not echo) type your secret password
Password for root account? (again) type your secret password
Start sshd(8) by default? [yes] Hit Enter
Do you expect to run the X Window System? [yes] Hit Enter
Do you want the the X Window System to be started by xenodm(1)? [no] Hit Enter
Setup a user? (enter a lower-case loginname, or ‘no’) [no] kowalczy
Full Name for user kowalczy? [kowalczy] Hit Enter
Password for user kowalczy? (will not echo) type your secret password
Password for user kowalczy? (again) type your secret password
Allow root ssh login? (yes, no, prohibit-password) [no] Hit Enter
What timezone are you in? (‘?’ for list) [Europe/Warsaw] Hit Enter
Available disk are: wd0.  
Which disk is the root disk? (‘?’ for details) [wd0] Hit Enter
No valid MBR or GPT.  
Use (W)hole disk MBR, whole disk(G)PT or (E)dit? [whole] Hit Enter
Use (A)uto layout, (E)dit auto layout, or create (C)ustom layout [a] Hit Enter
Let’s install the sets!  
Location of sets? (cd0 disk http or ‘done’) [cd0] Hit Enter
Pathname to the sets? (or ‘done’) [6.4/amd64] Hit Enter
Set name(s)? (or ‘abort’ or ‘done’) [done] Hit Enter
Directory does not contain SHA256.sig. Continue whithout verification ? [no] yes
Location of sets? (cd0 disk http or ‘done’) [done] Hit Enter
Exit to (S)hell, (H)alt or (R)eboot? [reboot] Hit Enter

Resources

  • https://www.bcsatellite.net/OpenBSD-Desktop-HOWTO/
  • https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Guide_to_Unix/BSD/OpenBSD/As_a_Desktop
  • https://wallpapercave.com/openbsd-wallpaper
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/9d0a1t/dwm_openbsd_suckless_beauty/
  • https://www.c0ffee.net/blog/openbsd-on-a-laptop/#initial-configuration

  • http://eradman.com/posts/openbsd-workstation.html

  • https://www.openbsd.org/faq/ports/ports.html

Installing additional applications

pkg_add sudo htop i3 nano vim firefox geany 
#pkg_ddd mate-desktop mat-notification-deamon mate-terminal mate-panel mate-session-manager mate-icon-theme mate-control-center mate-calc caja
pkg_add nitrogen 
pkg_add pkglocatedb
pkg_add wget 
wget https://wallpapercave.com/wp/NIPs9fj.jpg


pkg_add dwm dmenu st
  • create file .xinitrc
xset -b 
setxkbmap pl
#xrdb ~/.Xresources

#exec xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1920x975 --rate 60 &
exec nitrogen --restore &
#exec plank & 

while true ; do xsetroot -name "`date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M.%S'` Load15: `uptime |awk -F "load" '{print $2}' |cut -d " " -f 5 `; Up: `uptime |cut -d "," -f 1 |awk -F "up" '{print $2}'`"; sleep 1 ; done &

#if you have compton 
#compton -b --config ~/.config/compton.conf & 

exec dwm