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1.1 deraadt 19: <h2><font color=#0000e0>The OpenBSD 2.7 Release:</font></h2>
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1.2 deraadt 22: Released June 15, 2000.<br>
1.3 deraadt 23: Copyright 1997-2000, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.13 deraadt 24: <font color=#e00000>ISBN 0-9683637-5-X</font>
1.1 deraadt 25: <p>
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1.3 deraadt 27: <a href=#new>What's New</a><br>
28: <a href=#install>How to install</a><br>
29: <a href=#ports>How to use the ports tree</a><br>
30: <a href=orders.html>Ordering a CD set</a><br>
31:
1.1 deraadt 32: <p>
33: <h3><font color=#0000e0>
34: To get the files for this release:
35: <ul>
1.19 jufi 36: <li>Order a CDROM from our <a href="orders.html">ordering system</a>.
1.1 deraadt 37: <li>See the information on <a href=ftp.html>The FTP page</a> for
38: a list of mirror machines
39: <li>Go to the <font color=#e00000>pub/OpenBSD/2.7/</font> directory on
40: one of the mirror sites
41: <li>Briefly read the rest of this document.
1.14 mickey 42: <li>Have a look at <a href=errata27.html>The 2.7 Errata page</a> for a list
1.2 deraadt 43: of bugs and workarounds.
44: <li>See a <a href=plus27.html>detailed log of changes</a> between the
45: 2.6 and 2.7 releases.
1.1 deraadt 46: </ul>
47: </font></h3>
48: <br clear=all>
49: <br>
50: <p>
51:
1.2 deraadt 52: <strong>Note:</strong> All applicable copyrights and credits can be found
53: in the applicable file sources found in the files src.tar.gz, srcsys.tar.gz,
1.3 deraadt 54: X11.tar.gz, or in the files fetched via ports.tar.gz. The distribution
55: files used to build packages from the ports.tar.gz file are not included on
56: the CDROM because of lack of space.
57: <p>
58:
59: <a name=new></a>
60: <hr>
61: <p>
62: <h3><font color=#0000e0>What's New</font></h3>
63: <p>
64: This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 2.7.
65: For a comprehensive list, see the <a href=plus27.html>changelog</a> leading
66: to 2.7.
67: <p>
68:
69: <ul>
1.4 deraadt 70:
71: <li><a href="http://www.OpenSSH.com">OpenSSH</a> now supports both the
72: SSH1 and SSH2 protocols. The SSH2 protocol is slowly gaining
73: acceptance. Up until recently, SSH2 was just available in various
74: commercial offerings. The benefit with SSH2 is that it avoids the RSA
75: cipher and uses DSA instead, which is freely reusable. The downside
76: is that DSA is not nearly as fast on old slow machines. But since
77: OpenSSH still supports SSH1 protocol (if the RSA libraries are
78: installed) our users get the best of both worlds.
79: <p>
80:
81: <li>The clever trick used in 2.6 remains, allowing us to distribute
82: the same CD-ROM worldwide containing full strength crypto without
83: violating the RSA patent in the USA. The next OpenBSD release will
84: ship with RSA support in the operating system by default, since the
85: patent expires on September 21, 2000.
86: <p>
87:
88: <li>Extensive changes to the documentation, notably the man pages and
89: the Web FAQ. The manual pages now include useful examples to
90: supplement the explanations.
91:
1.3 deraadt 92: <p>
93:
94: <li>More complete collection and better tested set of "ports".
95: <p>
96:
97: <li>Over 500 pre-built and tested packages.
98: <p>
99:
100: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
101: <p>
102: <ul>
103: <li>XFree86 3.3.6
104: <li>gcc 2.95.2
105: <li>perl 5.6.0 plus a few fixes.
106: <li>Apache 1.3.12 + Mod_ssl 2.6.2 + OpenSSL 0.9.5a, DSO
1.5 kjell 107: <li>ipf 3.3.14
1.3 deraadt 108: <li>groff 1.15
109: <li>sendmail 8.10.1
110: <li>lynx 2.8.2 with HTTPS support added
111: <li>sudo 1.6.3
112: <li>Recent ncurses release
113: <li>Latest KAME IPv6 as of mid-May 2000.
114: <li>KTH Kerberos 1.0
115: <li>OpenSSH 2.1
116: </ul>
117: <p>
118:
119: <li>Much improved device driver support
120: <p>
121: <ul>
122: <li>Support for crypto hardware to accelerate IPSEC performance, ie.
123: <a href=http://www.powercrypt.com>PowerCrypt</a>.
124: <li>Support for all new
125: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ahc&sektion=4">Adaptec</a>,
126: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ncr&sektion=4">NCR</a>,
127: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=isp&sektion=4">Qlogic</a>,
128: and
129: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=adw&sektion=4">Advansys</a>
130: scsi controllers.
131: <li>Many new ethernet devices supported, including
132: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sis&sektion=4">
133: SiS900/7016</a>,
134: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sf&sektion=4">
135: Adaptec Starfire</a>,
136: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dc&sektion=4">
137: 21143</a>,
138: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ste&sektion=4">
139: Sundance ST201 (DEC DFE-550TX)</a>, etc.
140: <li>New USB ethernet devices supported, including
141: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=aue&sektion=4">ADMtek USB</a>,
142: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cue&sektion=4">CATC USB</a>,
143: and
1.4 deraadt 144: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=kue&sektion=4">
1.3 deraadt 145: Kawasaki USB</a>.
146: <li>A good start at
147: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cardbus&sektion=4">
148: cardbus</a> support.
149: <li>Significant improvements to
150: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pcmcia&sektion=4">
151: pcmcia</a>.
152: <li>Support for many more wireless networking cards, ie.
153: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wi&sektion=4">WaveLAN</a>,
154: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=an&sektion=4">Aironet</a>,
155: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ray&sektion=4">Aviator</a>,
156: etc.
157: <li>Many improvements in
1.4 deraadt 158: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=usb&sektion=4">USB</a>
1.3 deraadt 159: support.
160: <li>Hypersparc support for the sparc port.
161: <li>Support for most of the gigabit ethernet cards on the market, ie.
162: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sk&sektion=4">SysKonnect</a>,
163: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wx&sektion=4">Intel</a>, and
164: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ti&sektion=4">Alteon</a>.
165: <li>Support for the
166: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gdt&sektion=4">
167: ICP Vortex RAID controller</a>.
168: <li>Support for large PC's using multiple PCI busses based on the Intel 451 or
169: RCC ServerWorks chipsets.
170: <li>New audio drivers, including
171: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=neo&sektion=4">Neomagic</a>,
172: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cmpci&sektion=4">
173: C-Media CMI8x38</a>, and
1.4 deraadt 174: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=uaudio&sektion=4">
175: USB audio</a>.
1.6 deraadt 176: <li>Improvements in
177: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pciide&sektion=4">
178: PCI IDE subsystem</a>, including new support for AMD 756.
1.3 deraadt 179: </ul>
180: <p>
181:
182: <li>Many improvements for security and reliability (look for the red
183: print in the <a href=plus27.html>complete changelog</a>).
184: <p>
185:
186: <li>Many other new features, including:
187: <p>
188: <ul>
189: <li>Support for encrypting swap space.
190: <li>Improved
191: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=compat_linux&sektion=8">
192: Linux emulation</a>
193: <li>Support for large
194: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mount_msdos&sektion=8">
195: FAT32 filesystems</a>.
196: <li>Significant improvements to the
197: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bridge&sektion=4">
198: network bridging</a> code.
199: <li>Improved
200: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pthreads&sektion=3">
201: pthreads</a> support.
202: <li>Support for
203: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vlan&sektion=4">
204: vlan</a> networking.
205: </ul>
206: <p>
207:
208: </ul>
209: <p>
210:
211: <a name=install></a>
212: <hr>
213: <p>
214: <h3><font color=#0000e0>How to install</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 215: <p>
216: Following this are the instructions which you would have on a piece of
1.3 deraadt 217: paper if you had purchased a CDROM set instead of doing an alternate
218: form of install. The instructions for doing an ftp (or other style
219: of) install are very similar; the CDROM instructions are left intact
220: so that you can see how much easier it would have been if you had
221: purchased a CDROM instead.
1.1 deraadt 222: <p>
1.3 deraadt 223:
1.1 deraadt 224: <hr>
1.15 jsyn 225: Please refer to the following files on the two CDROMs for extensive
1.1 deraadt 226: details on how to install OpenBSD 2.7 on your machine:
227: <p>
228: <dl>
229: <li> CD1:2.7/i386/INSTALL.i386
230: <p>
1.10 mho 231: <li> CD2:2.7/sparc/INSTALL.sparc
1.1 deraadt 232: <li> CD2:2.7/mvme68k/INSTALL.mvme68k
233: <li> CD2:2.7/amiga/INSTALL.amiga
234: <li> CD2:2.7/mac68k/INSTALL.mac68k
235: <li> CD2:2.7/hp300/INSTALL.hp300
236: <p>
1.8 deraadt 237: <li>The pmax & sun3 releases are available on the ftp sites, but not
238: on the CDs.
1.1 deraadt 239: </dl>
240: <hr>
241: <p>
242: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the
243: use of the new "disklabel -E" command. If you are at all confused when
244: installing OpenBSD, read the relevant INSTALL.* file as listed above!
245: <p>
246: <h3><font color=#e00000>i386:</font></h3>
247: <p>
248: Play with your BIOS options, and see if you can enable booting off a
249: CD; try using CD1. If not, write CD1:2.7/i386/floppy27.fs to a
250: floppy, then boot that. If you are mixing OpenBSD with another
251: operating system, you will surely need to read the INSTALL.i386
252: document.
253: <p>
254: To make a floppy under MS-DOS, use /2.7/tools/rawrite.exe. Under
255: Unix, use "dd if=<file> of=/dev/<device> bs=32k" (where device could
256: be "floppy" or "rfd0c" or "rfd0a"). Use properly formatted perfect
257: floppies with NO BAD BLOCKS or you will lose.
258: <p>
259: <h3><font color=#e00000>sparc:</font></h3>
260: <p>
1.9 deraadt 261: To boot off CD2, type "boot cdrom 2.7/sparc/bsd.rd", or
1.1 deraadt 262: "b sd(0,6,0)2.7/sparc/bsd.rd" depending on your ROM version.
1.9 deraadt 263: Alternatively, write CD2:2.7/sparc/floppy27.fs to a floppy and boot it
1.11 mho 264: using "boot floppy" or "boot fd()" depending on your ROM version.
1.9 deraadt 265: Finally, a third alternative is to write CD2:2.7/sparc/kc.fs and
266: CD2:2.7/sparc/inst.fs to two separate floppies. Then insert "kc.fs",
1.1 deraadt 267: and boot as described above. As soon as the floppy drive ejects a
268: floppy, insert "inst.fs". Answer a bunch of questions. Reboot from
269: the "kc.fs" floppy. This time, when the floppy is ejected simply
270: re-insert "kc.fs" again and answer a different set of questions.
271: <p>
272: <h3><font color=#e00000>amiga:</font></h3>
273: <p>
274: Create BSD partitions according to INSTALL.amiga's preparation section.
275: Mount the CD2 under AmigaOS as device CD0: Next, execute the following
276: CLI command: "CD0:2.7/amiga/utils/loadbsd CD0:2.7/amiga/bsd.rd".
277: <p>
278: <h3><font color=#e00000>hp300:</font></h3>
279: <p>
280: You can boot over the network by following the instructions in
281: INSTALL.hp300.
282: <p>
283: <h3><font color=#e00000>mac68k:</font></h3>
284: <p>
285: Boot MacOS as normal and partition your disk with the appropriate A/UX
286: configurations. Then, extract the Macside utilities from
287: CD1:2.7/mac68k/utils onto your hard disk. Run Mkfs to create your
288: filesystems on the A/UX partitions you just made. Then, use the
289: BSD/Mac68k Installer to copy all the sets in CD1:2.7/mac68k/ onto your
290: partitions. Finally, you will be ready to configure the BSD/Mac68k
291: Booter with the location of your kernel and boot the system.
292: <p>
1.12 miod 293: <h3><font color=#e00000>sun3:</font></h3>
294: <p>
295: Get the release via ftp. Then, you can either setup a diskless boot or
296: create an installation tape, as described in INSTALL.sun3.
297: <p>
1.1 deraadt 298: <h3><font color=#e00000>Notes about the source code:</font></h3>
299: <p>
300: src.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src. This file
301: contains everything you need except for the kernel sources, which are
302: in a separate archive. To extract:
303: <p>
304: <pre>
305: # mkdir -p /usr/src
306: # cd /usr/src
307: # tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz
308: </pre>
309: <p>
310: srcsys.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src/sys.
311: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
312: To extract:
313: <p>
314: <pre>
315: # mkdir -p /usr/src/sys
316: # cd /usr/src
317: # tar xvfz /tmp/srcsys.tar.gz
318: </pre>
319: <p>
320: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout. Using these trees it
321: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
322: described at <a href=anoncvs.html>http://www.OpenBSD.org/anoncvs.html</a>.
323: Using these files
324: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
325: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
326: <p>
1.3 deraadt 327:
328: <a name=ports></a>
1.1 deraadt 329: <hr>
330: <p>
1.3 deraadt 331: <h3><font color=#0000e0>Ports Tree</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 332: <p>
333: A ports tree archive is also provided. To extract:
334: <p>
335: <pre>
336: # cd /usr
337: # tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz
338: # cd ports
339: # ls
340: ...
341: </pre>
342: <p>
343: The ports/ subdirectory is a checkout of the OpenBSD ports tree. Go
1.22 jasper 344: read <a href=faq/faq15.html>http://www.OpenBSD.org/faq/faq15.html</a>
1.1 deraadt 345: if you know nothing about ports
346: at this point. This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
347: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
348: OpenBSD ports system.
349: <p>
350: Certainly, the OpenBSD ports system is not complete. This is because
351: the full integration of ports into the OpenBSD environment is still a
352: young project as of this release. We believe the ports that are
353: provided here are stable, but it is most important to realize that
354: ports will continue to grow a great deal in functionality in the
355: future.
356: <p>
357: As we said, ports will be growing a lot in the future. The ports/
358: directory represents a CVS (see the manpage for cvs(1) if you aren't
359: familiar with CVS) checkout of our ports. As with our complete source
360: tree, our ports tree is available via anoncvs. So, in
361: order to keep current with it, you must make the ports/ tree
362: available on a read-write medium and update the tree with a command
363: like:
364: <p>
365: <pre>
1.21 deraadt 366: # cd [portsdir]/; cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd
1.1 deraadt 367: </pre>
368: <p>
369: [Of course, you must replace the local directory and server name here
370: with the location of your ports collection and a nearby anoncvs
371: server.]
372: <p>
373: Again, it is important to see the webpage for specific instructions as
374: this is a new service which hasn't yet been ironed out
375: completely.
376: <p>
377: Finally, despite ports' youth, help is never far. If you're
378: interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
379: would like to know more, the mailing list ports@openbsd.org is a good
380: place to know.
381: <p>
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