The unofficial 3.1 release consists of three CDs for the IA32 architecture. OpenBSD31-i386-base.iso: ------------------------ o The base files necessary to install the system o X, ports, src and srcsys (kernel) TAR files, containing the source code o OpenSSH in source form and binary for RedHAT (RPM), this isn't really needed for OpenBSD since it includes already. o Patches for all architectures supported by OpenBSD (from version 2.2) OpenBSD31-i386-base-ipf.iso: ---------------------------- o Contains IPF (http://www.ipfilter.org/) OpenBSD31-i386-packages[1-2].iso: ---------------------------- These CDs contain the binary packages for OpenBSD/i386. If you prefer the ports tree over installing binary packages you won't need these CDs.