Hitchhiker's Guide to Openbsd

In some rare occasions, something may go wrong with the second stage boot loader install. Reinstalling the 
second stage boot loader is discussed 
here
. 
4.13.3 - My (older, slower) machine booted, but hung at the ssh-keygen steps
It is very likely your machine is running fine, just taking a while to do the ssh key generation process. A SPARCStation2 
or a Macintosh Quadra may take several hours to complete the three 
ssh-keygen(1)
steps. Just let it finish; it is only done 
once per install. 
Note that the default key size was increased for OpenBSD 3.8, so the generation times are much longer than they used to 
be. Users of very slow machines may wish to generate their keys on another computer, place them in a 
site49.tgz
 file, and 
install them with the rest of the file sets. 
4.13.4 - I got the message "Failed to change directory" when doing an install
When doing an FTP install of a 
snapshot
 during the -beta stage of the OpenBSD development cycle, you may see this: 
Display the list of known ftp servers? [no] yes
Getting the list from 192.128.5.191 (ftp.openbsd.org)... FAILED
Failed to change directory.
Server IP address or hostname?
This is normal and expected behavior during this pre-release part of the cycle. The install program looks for the FTP list 
on the primary FTP server in a directory that won't be available until the 
release date
, so you get the above message. 
Simply use the 
FTP mirror list
 to find your favorite FTP mirror, and manually enter its name when prompted. 
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Note: You should not see this if you are installing -release or from CD-ROM.