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1.48 ! bentley 26: <i>Open</i><b>BSD</b></a>
! 27: 2.9
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1.1 deraadt 29:
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! 32: <td>
1.32 deraadt 33: <a href=images/Business.jpg>
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1.1 deraadt 36: Released June 1, 2001<br>
37: Copyright 1997-2001, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.48 ! bentley 38: <cite class=isbn>ISBN 0-9683637-7-6</cite>
1.1 deraadt 39: <p>
40: <ul>
1.47 tj 41: <!--
1.37 deraadt 42: <li>Order a CDROM from our <a href="https://openbsdstore.com">ordering system</a>.
1.47 tj 43: -->
1.1 deraadt 44: <li>See the information on <a href=ftp.html>The FTP page</a> for
45: a list of mirror machines
1.48 ! bentley 46: <li>Go to the <code class=reldir>pub/OpenBSD/2.9/</code> directory on
1.1 deraadt 47: one of the mirror sites
1.22 deraadt 48: <li>Have a look at <a href=errata29.html>The 2.9 Errata page</a> for a list
1.1 deraadt 49: of bugs and workarounds.
50: <li>See a <a href=plus29.html>detailed log of changes</a> between the
51: 2.8 and 2.9 releases.
52: </ul>
1.43 tb 53: <p>
1.42 tb 54: All applicable copyrights and credits are in the src.tar.gz,
55: sys.tar.gz, xenocara.tar.gz, ports.tar.gz files, or in the
56: files fetched via ports.tar.gz.
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1.1 deraadt 58:
1.32 deraadt 59: <hr>
1.48 ! bentley 60:
! 61: <section id=new>
! 62: <h3>What's New</h3>
! 63:
1.42 tb 64: This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 2.9.
1.1 deraadt 65: For a comprehensive list, see the <a href=plus29.html>changelog</a> leading
66: to 2.9.
67: <p>
68:
69: <ul>
70:
1.4 aaron 71: <li>Filesystem performance has received an incredible boost from new softupdates and dirpref code. Some tests show a 60x improvement in filesystem speed. If there is one reason to upgrade to 2.9, this is it.
72: <p>
73:
1.45 tb 74: <li><a href="https://www.OpenSSH.com">OpenSSH</a> (supporting both the
1.5 deraadt 75: SSH1 and SSH2 protocols) is now at version 2.9. Secure file transfers are
1.2 aaron 76: encouraged using the greatly enhanced SFTP subsystem which now comes both with
77: an SFTP server and client.
78: <p>
1.1 deraadt 79:
80: <li>Extensive changes to the documentation, notably the man pages and
81: the Web FAQ. The manual pages now include useful examples to
82: supplement the explanations.
83: <p>
84:
85: <li>More complete collection and better tested set of "ports".
86: <p>
87:
1.4 aaron 88: <li>Over 1000 pre-built and tested packages.
1.1 deraadt 89: <p>
90:
1.2 aaron 91: <li>OpenBSD 2.9 will run on the new Apple Titanium PowerBook G4.
1.1 deraadt 92: <p>
93:
1.6 ericj 94: <li>After a 2 release hiatus, the <a href="alpha.html">OpenBSD/alpha</a> port is back with more hardware support than ever!
95: <p>
96:
1.1 deraadt 97: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
98: <p>
99: <ul>
1.4 aaron 100: <li>XFree86 4.0.3 (and i386 contains 3.3.X servers also, thus providing support for all chipsets)
101: <li>gcc 2.95.3 (+ patches)
1.10 brad 102: <li>perl 5.6.0 (+ patches)
103: <li>Apache 1.3.19, mod_ssl 2.8.2, OpenSSL 0.9.6 (+ patches), DSO support
1.2 aaron 104: <li>ipf 3.4.16 (+ patches)
105: <li>groff 1.15
106: <li>sendmail 8.11.3
107: <li>lynx 2.8.2 with HTTPS support added
108: <li>sudo 1.6.3p7
109: <li>ncurses 5.2
110: <li>Latest KAME IPv6
1.16 hin 111: <li>KTH Kerberos 1.0.4
1.5 deraadt 112: <li>OpenSSH 2.9
1.2 aaron 113:
114: </ul>
115: <p>
116:
117: <li>Much improved device driver support
118: <p>
119: <ul>
120: <li>3Com 3c990 3XP Typhoon/Sidewinder driver (Ethernet only).
1.6 ericj 121: <li>New hardware RAID drivers including:
122: <ul>
123: <li>Adaptec FSA
124: <li>American Megatrends MegaRAID
1.12 brad 125: <li>Compaq Smart ARRAY controllers
1.6 ericj 126: </ul>
127: <li>New SCSI drivers supporting:
128: <ul>
129: <li>Initio 940/950
130: <li>Symbios Logic 53c1x10
131: <li>AMD Am53c974-based PCI adapters
132: </ul>
133: <li>Much added support for various laptop audio cards, including:
134: <ul>
135: <li>ESS Maestro 1/2/2E
136: <li>Yamaha DS-1S
137: <li>Cirrus Logic CS4281 audio devices
138: </ul>
1.2 aaron 139: <li>USB hardware is now enabled by default and includes support for keyboards and mice.
1.1 deraadt 140: </ul>
141: <p>
142:
143: <li>Many improvements for security and reliability (look for the red
144: print in the <a href=plus29.html>complete changelog</a>).
145: <p>
146:
147: <li>Many other new features, including:
148: <p>
149: <ul>
1.17 aaron 150: <li>Long username support.
1.48 ! bentley 151: <li>Vastly improved Linux <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/compat_linux.8">emulation</a> allowing many more applications to run.
! 152: <li>802.1d spanning tree support for <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bridge.4">bridge(4)</a>.
! 153: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vlan.4">vlan(4)</a> bridging support allows for many more bridge possibilities (Now you can even use OpenBSD as an 802.1Q compatible switch)
! 154: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/kqueue.2">kqueue(2)</a> kernel event notification mechanism.
! 155: <li>Addition of the <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/wscons.4">wscons(4)</a> machine-independent console driver.
1.6 ericj 156: <li>Major enhancements to softupdates, including speed and stability fixes.
1.48 ! bentley 157: <li>Bug-fixes and enhancements to the <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/atapiscsi.4">atapiscsi(4)</a> and <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pciide.4">pciide(4)</a> drivers,
1.13 chris 158: including UltraDMA/100 support for Intel, Promise, and Highpoint controllers.
1.1 deraadt 159: </ul>
160:
161: </ul>
1.48 ! bentley 162: </section>
1.1 deraadt 163:
164: <hr>
1.48 ! bentley 165:
! 166: <section id=install>
! 167: <h3>How to install</h3>
! 168:
1.1 deraadt 169: <p>
170: Following this are the instructions which you would have on a piece of
171: paper if you had purchased a CDROM set instead of doing an alternate
172: form of install. The instructions for doing an ftp (or other style
173: of) install are very similar; the CDROM instructions are left intact
174: so that you can see how much easier it would have been if you had
175: purchased a CDROM instead.
176: <p>
177:
178: <hr>
1.20 jsyn 179: Please refer to the following files on the two CDROMs for extensive
1.1 deraadt 180: details on how to install OpenBSD 2.9 on your machine:
181: <p>
1.7 ericj 182: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 183: <li> CD1:2.9/i386/INSTALL.i386
184: <li> CD1:2.9/powerpc/INSTALL.powerpc
185: <li> CD1:2.9/vax/INSTALL.vax
1.48 ! bentley 186: </ul>
! 187: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 188: <li> CD2:2.9/sparc/INSTALL.sparc
189: <li> CD2:2.9/mvme68k/INSTALL.mvme68k
190: <li> CD2:2.9/amiga/INSTALL.amiga
191: <li> CD2:2.9/mac68k/INSTALL.mac68k
192: <li> CD2:2.9/hp300/INSTALL.hp300
193: <li> CD2:2.9/sun3/INSTALL.sun3
1.48 ! bentley 194: </ul>
! 195: <ul>
1.7 ericj 196: <li>The alpha release is available on the ftp sites, but not on the CDs.
197: </ul>
1.48 ! bentley 198:
1.1 deraadt 199: <hr>
1.7 ericj 200:
1.48 ! bentley 201: <section id=quickinstall>
! 202:
1.1 deraadt 203: <p>
204: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the
1.18 miod 205: use of the "disklabel -E" command. If you are at all confused when
1.1 deraadt 206: installing OpenBSD, read the relevant INSTALL.* file as listed above!
1.7 ericj 207:
1.48 ! bentley 208: <h3>OpenBSD/i386:</h3>
! 209:
1.1 deraadt 210: <p>
1.8 ericj 211: Play with your BIOS options to enable booting from a CD. The OpenBSD/i386 release is on CD1. If your BIOS does not support booting from CD, you will need to create a boot floppy to install from. To create a boot floppy write <i>CD1:2.9/i386/floppy29.fs</i> to a floppy and boot via the floppy drive.
1.7 ericj 212:
1.1 deraadt 213: <p>
1.8 ericj 214: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to read the included INSTALL.i386 document.
215:
216: <p>
1.48 ! bentley 217: To make a boot floppy under MS-DOS, use the "rawrite" utility located at <i>CD:/2.9/tools/rawrite.exe</i>. To make the boot floppy under a Unix OS, use the <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dd.1">dd(1)</a> utility. The following is an example usage of <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dd.1">dd(1)</a>, where the device could be "floppy", "rfd0c", or "rfd0a".
1.8 ericj 218:
1.48 ! bentley 219: <blockquote><pre>
1.8 ericj 220: # <strong>dd if=<file> of=/dev/<device> bs=32k</strong>
1.48 ! bentley 221: </pre></blockquote>
1.8 ericj 222:
223: <p>
224: Make sure you use properly formatted perfect floppies with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install will most likely fail. For more information on creating a boot floppy and installing OpenBSD/i386 please refer to <a href="faq/faq4.html#4.1">FAQ4.1</a>.
1.48 ! bentley 225:
! 226: <h3>OpenBSD/sparc:</h3>
1.7 ericj 227:
228: <p>
1.8 ericj 229: The 2.9 release of OpenBSD/sparc is located on CD2. To boot off of this CD you can use one of the two commands listed below, depending on the version of your ROM.
230:
1.48 ! bentley 231: <blockquote><pre>
! 232: > <kbd>boot cdrom 2.9/sparc/bsd.rd</kbd>
1.8 ericj 233: or
1.48 ! bentley 234: > <kbd>b sd(0,6,0)2.9/sparc/bsd.rd</kbd>
! 235: </pre></blockquote>
1.8 ericj 236:
237: <p>
1.18 miod 238: If your sparc does not have a CD drive, you can alternatively boot from floppy. To do so you need to write "CD2:2.9/sparc/floppy29.fs" to a floppy. For more information see <a href="faq/faq4.html#4.1">FAQ4.1</a>. To boot from the floppy use one of the two commands listed below, depending on the version of your ROM.
1.8 ericj 239:
1.48 ! bentley 240: <blockquote><pre>
! 241: > <kbd>boot floppy</kbd>
1.8 ericj 242: or
243: > <strong>boot fd()</strong>
1.48 ! bentley 244: </pre></blockquote>
1.8 ericj 245:
246: <p>
247: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install will most likely fail.
1.11 miod 248:
249: <p>
250: If your sparc doesn't have a floppy drive nor a CD drive, you can either
251: setup a bootable tape, or install via network, as told in the
252: INSTALL.sparc file.
1.48 ! bentley 253:
! 254: <h3>OpenBSD/amiga:</h3>
1.7 ericj 255:
1.1 deraadt 256: <p>
257: Create BSD partitions according to INSTALL.amiga's preparation section.
258: Mount the CD2 under AmigaOS as device CD0: Next, execute the following
259: CLI command: "CD0:2.9/amiga/utils/loadbsd CD0:2.9/amiga/bsd.rd".
1.48 ! bentley 260:
! 261: <h3>OpenBSD/hp300:</h3>
1.7 ericj 262:
1.1 deraadt 263: <p>
264: You can boot over the network by following the instructions in
265: INSTALL.hp300.
1.48 ! bentley 266:
! 267: <h3>OpenBSD/mac68k:</h3>
1.7 ericj 268:
1.1 deraadt 269: <p>
270: Boot MacOS as normal and partition your disk with the appropriate A/UX
271: configurations. Then, extract the Macside utilities from
272: CD2:2.9/mac68k/utils onto your hard disk. Run Mkfs to create your
273: filesystems on the A/UX partitions you just made. Then, use the
274: BSD/Mac68k Installer to copy all the sets in CD2:2.9/mac68k/ onto your
275: partitions. Finally, you will be ready to configure the BSD/Mac68k
276: Booter with the location of your kernel and boot the system.
1.48 ! bentley 277:
! 278: <h3>OpenBSD/sun3:</h3>
1.7 ericj 279:
1.1 deraadt 280: <p>
1.9 miod 281: You can either setup a diskless boot or create an installation tape,
282: as described in INSTALL.sun3.
1.7 ericj 283:
1.48 ! bentley 284: <h3>OpenBSD/alpha:</h3>
! 285:
1.8 ericj 286: <p>
287: Get the release via ftp. Then, you can either setup a diskless boot or boot via floppy as described in INSTALL.alpha.
1.48 ! bentley 288:
! 289: </section>
! 290:
! 291: <section id=sourcecode>
! 292: <h3>Notes about the source code:</h3>
1.8 ericj 293:
294: <p>
1.1 deraadt 295: src.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src. This file
296: contains everything you need except for the kernel sources, which are
297: in a separate archive. To extract:
1.48 ! bentley 298:
! 299: <blockquote><pre>
! 300: # <kbd>mkdir -p /usr/src</kbd>
! 301: # <kbd>cd /usr/src</kbd>
! 302: # <kbd>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</kbd>
! 303: </pre></blockquote>
! 304:
1.1 deraadt 305: <p>
306: srcsys.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src/sys.
307: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
308: To extract:
1.48 ! bentley 309:
! 310: <blockquote><pre>
! 311: # <kbd>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</kbd>
! 312: # <kbd>cd /usr/src</kbd>
! 313: # <kbd>tar xvfz /tmp/srcsys.tar.gz</kbd>
! 314: </pre></blockquote>
! 315:
1.1 deraadt 316: <p>
317: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout. Using these trees it
318: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
319: described at <a href=anoncvs.html>http://www.OpenBSD.org/anoncvs.html</a>.
320: Using these files
321: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
322: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
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! 324: </section>
! 325: </section>
! 326:
1.1 deraadt 327: <hr>
1.48 ! bentley 328:
! 329: <section id=ports>
! 330: <h3>Ports Tree</h3>
1.1 deraadt 331: <p>
332: A ports tree archive is also provided. To extract:
333: <p>
1.48 ! bentley 334: <blockquote><pre>
! 335: # <kbd>cd /usr</kbd>
! 336: # <kbd>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</kbd>
! 337: # <kbd>cd ports</kbd>
! 338: </pre></blockquote>
1.1 deraadt 339: <p>
1.7 ericj 340: The <i>ports/</i> subdirectory is a checkout of the OpenBSD ports tree. Go
1.30 jasper 341: read <a href=faq/faq15.html>http://www.OpenBSD.org/faq/faq15.html</a>
1.1 deraadt 342: if you know nothing about ports
343: at this point. This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
344: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
345: OpenBSD ports system.
346: <p>
1.14 espie 347: Certainly, the OpenBSD ports system is not complete. It is doubtful it
348: will ever be. However, it is growing very fast and getting more stable.
349: Almost all ports provided with this release should build without problems
350: on most architectures (over 1200 packages build on i386, for instance).
351: <p>
1.42 tb 352: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS (see the manpage for
1.48 ! bentley 353: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/cvs.1">
1.42 tb 354: cvs(1)</a> if
355: you aren't familiar with CVS) checkout of our ports. As with our complete
1.14 espie 356: source tree, our ports tree is available via anoncvs. So, in
1.7 ericj 357: order to keep current with it, you must make the <i>ports/</i> tree
1.1 deraadt 358: available on a read-write medium and update the tree with a command
359: like:
360: <p>
1.48 ! bentley 361: <blockquote><pre>
1.29 deraadt 362: # <strong>cd [portsdir]/; cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_2_9</strong>
1.48 ! bentley 363: </pre></blockquote>
1.1 deraadt 364: <p>
365: [Of course, you must replace the local directory and server name here
366: with the location of your ports collection and a nearby anoncvs
367: server.]
368: <p>
1.14 espie 369: Note that most ports are available as packages through ftp. Updated
370: packages for the 2.9 release will be made available if problems arise.
1.1 deraadt 371: <p>
1.14 espie 372: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
1.1 deraadt 373: would like to know more, the mailing list ports@openbsd.org is a good
374: place to know.
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