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24: <h2><font color="#0000e0">The OpenBSD 3.5 Release:</font></h2>
25: <p>
26: Released May 1, 2004<br>
27: Copyright 1997-2004, Theo de Raadt.<br>
28: <font color="#e00000">ISBN 0-9731791-1-9</font>
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31: <a href="#new">What's New</a><br>
32: <a href="#install">How to install</a><br>
33: <a href="#ports">How to use the ports tree</a><br>
34: <a href="orders.html">Ordering a CD set</a><br>
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36: <p>
37: <h3><font color="#0000e0">
38: To get the files for this release:
39: <ul>
40: <li>Order a CDROM from our <a href="orders.html">ordering system</a>.
41: <li>See the information on <a href="ftp.html">The FTP page</a> for
42: a list of mirror machines.
43: <li>Go to the <font color="#e00000">pub/OpenBSD/3.5/</font> directory on
44: one of the mirror sites.
45: <li>Briefly read the rest of this document.
46: <li>Have a look at <a href="errata.html">The 3.5 Errata page</a> for a list
47: of bugs and workarounds.
1.88 ! deraadt 48: <li>See a <a href="plus35.html">detailed log of changes</a> between the
1.1 deraadt 49: 3.4 and 3.5 releases.
50: </ul>
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54: <strong>Note:</strong> All applicable copyrights and credits can be found
55: in the applicable file sources found in the files src.tar.gz, sys.tar.gz,
56: XF4.tar.gz, or in the files fetched via ports.tar.gz. The distribution
57: files used to build packages from the ports.tar.gz file are not included on
58: the CDROM because of lack of space.
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60:
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63: <p>
64: <h3><font color="#0000e0">What's New</font></h3>
65: <p>
66: This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.88 ! deraadt 67: For a comprehensive list, see the <a href="plus35.html">changelog</a> leading
1.1 deraadt 68: to 3.5.
69: <p>
70:
71: <ul>
72:
1.14 deraadt 73: <li> New platforms:
74: <ul>
1.74 deraadt 75: <li><a href="amd64.html">OpenBSD/amd64</a><br>
76: Supporting the AMD64 architecture natively,
77: with full 64-bit support, 8 extra registers in the architecture
78: to significantly increase performance, and a memory management
79: Non-Executable bit that permits full W^X support.<br>
80: (Note: The upcoming Intel "ia32e" AMD64-compatible cpus have also
81: been tested, and work, even though they lack the NX bit).
82: <li><a href="cats.html">OpenBSD/cats</a><br>
83: Our first entry in the ARM-cpu landscape. We intend to use this as a
84: development platform for something else we plan for the future...
85: <li><a href="mvme88k.html">OpenBSD/mvme88k</a><br>
1.77 tdeval 86: Supporting an older, but very cool cpu architecture, perhaps the
1.74 deraadt 87: most pure RISC cpu ever.
1.14 deraadt 88: </ul>
89: <p>
90:
1.35 otto 91: <li>Replacement of the GNU
1.12 otto 92: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bc">bc(1)</a>,
93: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dc">dc(1)</a>,
1.4 deraadt 94: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nm">nm(1)</a> and
95: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=size">size(1)</a>
1.1 deraadt 96: commands with BSD licensed equivalents.
97: <p>
98:
1.5 mcbride 99: <li>A large number of bug fixes, changes, and optimizations to our packet filter
100: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>
101: including:
102: <ul>
1.19 otto 103: <li>Atomic commits of ruleset changes (reduce the chance of ending up in an
104: inconsistent state).
1.69 djm 105: <li>A 30% reduction in the size of state table entries.
1.19 otto 106: <li>Source-tracking (limit number of clients and states per client).
107: <li>Sticky-address (the flexibility of round-robin with the benefits of
108: source-hash).
1.53 mcbride 109: <li>Invert the socket match order when redirecting to
1.34 avsm 110: localhost (prevents the potential security problem of remote connections
1.19 otto 111: being identified as local).
1.5 mcbride 112: <li>Significant improvements to interface handling.
113: </ul>
114: <p>
115:
1.53 mcbride 116: <li>New tools for filtering gateway failover:
1.5 mcbride 117: <ul>
118: <li>CARP (the Common Address Redundancy Protocol)
119: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=carp">carp(4)</a>
120: allows multiple machines to share responsibility for a given IP address or
121: addresses. If the owner of the address fails, another member of the group
122: will take over for it. A discussion of the history of CARP can be found
1.62 deraadt 123: <a href="lyrics.html">here</a>.
1.5 mcbride 124: <li>Additions to the
125: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pfsync">pfsync(4)</a>
126: interface allow it to synchronise state table entries between two or more
127: firewalls which are operating in parallel, allowing stateful connections
128: to cross any of the firewalls regardless of where the state was initially
129: created.
130: </ul>
131: <p>
132:
1.6 todd 133: <li> New functionality:
134: <ul>
1.51 millert 135: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pty&sektion=4">pty(4)</a> devices are now allocated on demand, up to a configurable limit.
1.6 todd 136: <li>New ptm device (see <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pty&sektion=4">pty(4)</a>)
1.47 deraadt 137: that allows non-privileged processes to allocate a properly-permissioned pty.<br>
138: As a result any process can now open a pty easily, meaning
139: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=xterm&sektion=1">xterm(1)</a>
140: and
141: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=xconsole&sektion=1">xconsole(1)</a>
142: are no longer setuid root. (In 3.4 they were setuid root, but privilege revoking).
1.17 otto 143: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=closefrom&sektion=2">closefrom(2)</a>
144: system call has been added.
1.6 todd 145: <li>TCP MD5 signatures (used by <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nc&sektion=1">nc(1)</a>
1.17 otto 146: and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgpd&sektion=8">bgpd(8)</a>).
1.70 djm 147: <li>Network boot support for i386 and amd64, using
148: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pxeboot&sektion=8&arch=i386">pxeboot(8)</a>.
1.19 otto 149: <li>The i386 8GB boot loader limitation has been removed.
1.6 todd 150: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=spamd&sektion=8">spamd(8)</a>
1.52 beck 151: gains <a href="http://projects.puremagic.com/greylisting/">greylisting</a> support. This allows greylisting (a very powerful spam reduction technique) to be
152: done on a firewall for many mail hosts, no matter what MTA is being used.
1.80 tdeval 153: <li>Interface 'cloning', accessed by
1.6 todd 154: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&sektion=8">ifconfig(8)</a>
1.19 otto 155: commands <em>create</em> and <em>destroy</em>. E.g. `ifconfig vlan100 create'.
1.82 tdeval 156: <li>
157: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&sektion=8">ifconfig(8)</a>
158: can now be used with a generic <em>interface</em> name, for listing all such configured interfaces. E.g. `ifconfig carp'.
1.47 deraadt 159: <li>The MAKEDEV(8) manual pages are now generated, and hence, accurate.
160: <li>Complete rewrite of <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pkg_add&sektion=1">package</a> tools in perl.
1.21 djm 161: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=syslogd&sektion=8">syslogd(8)</a>
162: now supports logging to memory buffers, to be read using
163: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=syslogc&sektion=8">syslogc(8)</a>.
1.47 deraadt 164: This is useful for diskless or flash-based computers.
1.34 avsm 165: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> ESP in UDP encapsulation.
1.33 otto 166: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=malloc&sektion=3">
1.79 tdeval 167: malloc(3)</a> chunk randomization and guard pages. This helps to detect out-of-bounds
1.33 otto 168: reads and writes.
1.43 beck 169: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=authpf&sektion=8">
170: authpf(8)</a> now tags traffic in
171: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pflog&sektion=4">
172: pflog(4)</A> so that users may be associated with traffic through a NAT setup.
1.46 tedu 173: <li>hw.setperf sysctl allows controlling the speed of many new i386
1.48 beck 174: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cpu&arch=i386">cpus</a>,
175: great for prolonged battery life..
176: <li>XFS has been added to the GENERIC kernels so that
177: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=afsd&sektion=8">afsd(8)
178: </a> may be started easily, eliminating the need to recompile the kernel
1.49 deraadt 179: to use AFS.<br>
180: AFS can now be used anonymously by enabling it in
181: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rc.conf&sektion=8">rc.conf(8)</a>
1.48 beck 182: with no further configuration.
1.55 millert 183: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ps&sektion=1">ps</a>, <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=top&sektion=1">top</a> and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=w&sektion=1">w</a> utilities no longer break when changes are made in kernel structures.
1.51 millert 184: <li>A <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=poll&sektion=2">poll</a> interface has been added to the <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rpc&sektion=3">rpc</a> routines in the standard C library. Use of <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=poll&sektion=2">poll</a> over <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=select&sektion=2">select</a> can result in better performance for programs with a large number of open file descriptors.
1.64 krw 185: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient&sektion=8"
186: >dhclient(8)</a> now detects when the interface it configured is modified and
187: gracefully exits.
188: e.g. repeatedly running it against the same interface leaves only the
189: last instance active.
1.6 todd 190: </ul>
191: <p>
192:
1.47 deraadt 193: <li> Privilege separation added to allow complex operations to occur in an untrusted, unprivileged process, resulting in much greater security for the following processes:
1.6 todd 194: <ul>
195: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=isakmpd&sektion=8">isakmpd(8)</a>
196: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=named&sektion=8">named(8)</a>
1.47 deraadt 197: (Previously privilege revoking, but this had a small breakage).
1.13 todd 198: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pflogd&sektion=8">pflogd(8)</a>
1.6 todd 199: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tcpdump&sektion=8">tcpdump(8)</a>
200: </ul>
201: <p>
202:
203: <li> New tools:
204: <ul>
1.47 deraadt 205: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sensorsd&sektion=8">sensorsd(8)</a>, monitoring hardware sensors.
206: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=procmap&sektion=1">procmap(1)</a>, to examine a process' memory map.
207: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgpd&sektion=8">bgpd(8)</a>, implementing the <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1771.txt">BGP-4</a> routing protocol.
1.10 deraadt 208: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pkill&sektion=1">pkill(1)</a> and
1.35 otto 209: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pgrep&sektion=1">pgrep(1)</a>, finding or signalling processes by name.
1.6 todd 210: </ul>
211: <p>
212:
1.23 henning 213: <li> Performance improvements:
214: <ul>
1.35 otto 215: <li>Improved connection/socket lookup - about 100 times faster at 10000 sockets than 3.4.
1.72 djm 216: <li>TCP SYN cache. Greatly reduces the memory cost of half-open TCP connections.
1.71 djm 217: <li>Implemented TCP adjustments recommended by
218: <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3390.txt">RFC3390</a>,
219: controllable via
220: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sysctl&sektion=8">sysctl</a>.
1.23 henning 221: <li>OpenSSL speedup on i386, up to 100% improvement for md5, sha1, blowfish,
1.42 henning 222: des, 3des, rsa, dsa and bn.
1.77 tdeval 223: <li>OpenSSL now directly uses the new AES instructions some VIA C3 processors
224: provide, increasing AES to 780MBytes/second (so you get to see a fan-less
1.56 deraadt 225: cpu performing AES more than 10x faster than the fastest cpu currently sold).
1.45 tedu 226: <li>Directory hashing makes lookups in large directories much faster.
1.23 henning 227: </ul>
228: <p>
229:
1.84 miod 230: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scsi&sektion=4">SCSI(4)</a> improvements:
1.67 krw 231: <ul>
1.73 otto 232: <li>Bus probe made faster by skipping non-existent LUNs.
1.67 krw 233: <li>Bus probe made saner by elimination of spurious commands.
234: <li>Bus probe made safer by having INQUIRY commands ask only for available data.
1.81 krw 235: <li>Eliminated a race that, e.g., caused problems burning CDs at high speeds.
1.67 krw 236: <li>SCSIDEBUG output can now be restricted to specified buses.
237: <li>ASC/ASCQ diagnostic messages updated to SCSI-3 standards.
238: <li>Better error handling.
239: </ul>
240: <p>
241:
1.29 henning 242: <li>Improved hardware support, including:
243: <ul>
1.35 otto 244: <li>The <a href="/hppa.html">hppa</a> architecture gets support for many
1.29 henning 245: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pci">PCI</a>
1.37 mickey 246: based machines w/ addition of <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dino&sektion=4&arch=hppa">dino(4)</a> GSC-PCI bridge.
1.78 otto 247: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=oosiop&sektion=4">oosiop(4)</a> driver for NCR 53C700 SCSI host adapters.
1.55 millert 248: <li>Major improvements to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ahc&sektion=4">ahc(4)</a>, bringing support for many new models.
1.35 otto 249: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bce&sektion=4">bce(4)</a> driver, supporting the Broadcom BCM4401 FastEthernet chipset.
250: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mpt&sektion=4">mpt(4)</a> driver for LSI Fusion-MPT SCSI and FibreChannel host adapters.
1.39 henning 251: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=snapper&arch=macppc&sektion=4&">snapper(4)</a> audio driver for recent iBook (since May 02) and PowerBook (since Apr 02) models.
1.44 millert 252: <li>Improved stability of the <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wi&sektion=4">wi(4)</a> driver as well as support for USB-based adapters and software WEP.
253: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wi&sektion=4">wi(4)</a> in HostAP mode now supports SSID hiding and newer prism firmware revisions.
1.61 marco 254: <li>Fixed several firmware incompatibility issues in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=an&sektion=4">an(4)</a>.
1.68 grange 255: <li>Improved ATA and SATA support.
1.50 mickey 256: <li>Support for i835 AGP GART in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vga&sektion=4">vga(4)</a>.
1.54 marco 257: <li>Improved Gigabit Ethernet support for <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=em&sektion=4">em(4)</a>, <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sk&sektion=4">sk(4)</a> & <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bge&sektion=4">bge(4)</a>.
1.66 marco 258: <li>Several fixes for <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=apm&sektion=4">apm(4)</a>.
1.63 marco 259: <li>Support for Intel 852/855/865 AGP chipsets.
1.67 krw 260: <li>Many more USB Flash and other
261: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=umass&sektion=4">umass(4)</a> devices work as a result of SCSI improvements.
1.29 henning 262: </ul>
1.20 otto 263: <p>
264:
1.57 marco 265: <li> This release ships with Firefox for all major architectures.
266: <p>
267:
1.58 marco 268: <li> Major improvements in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pthreads&sektion=3">pthreads(3)</a>.
269: <p>
270:
1.18 sturm 271: <li> Over 2500 ports, 2300 pre-built packages.
272: <p>
273:
1.7 todd 274: <li>Many improvements for security and reliability (look for the red
1.88 ! deraadt 275: print in the <a href="plus35.html">complete changelog</a>).
1.7 todd 276: <p>
277:
1.19 otto 278: <li>Many improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
279: <p>
280:
1.40 tdeval 281: <li>Gcc 3.3.2, including local additions like ProPolice support, for the
1.62 deraadt 282: <a href="amd64.html">OpenBSD/amd64</a>,
283: <a href="cats.html">OpenBSD/cats</a> and
284: <a href="sparc64.html">OpenBSD/sparc64</a>
1.28 henning 285: platforms.
286: Other architectures still use gcc 2.95.3 with the same local additions.
287: <p>
1.75 markus 288: <li>OpenSSH 3.8.1:
289: <ul>
290: <li>
291: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>
292: now supports forced changes of expired passwords via
293: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=passwd&sektion=1">passwd(1)</a>.
294: <li>
295: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
296: now uses untrusted cookies for X11-Forwarding.
297: Some X11 applications might need full access to the X11 server,
298: see ForwardX11Trusted in
1.76 djm 299: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh_config&sektion=5">ssh_config(5)</a>
1.75 markus 300: and
301: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=xauth&sektion=1">xauth(1)</a>.
302: <li>
303: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
304: now supports sending application layer
305: keep-alive messages to the server. See ServerAliveInterval in
1.76 djm 306: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh_config&sektion=5">ssh_config(5)</a>.
1.75 markus 307: <li> Improved
308: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>
309: batch file support.
310: <li> New KerberosGetAFSToken option for
311: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>.
312: <li> Updated /etc/moduli file and improved performance for
313: protocol version 2.
314: <li> Support for host keys in DNS.
315: <li> The experimental "gssapi" support has been replaced with
316: the "gssapi-with-mic" to fix possible MITM attacks.
317: The two versions are not compatible.
318: </ul>
319: <p>
1.28 henning 320:
321: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
322: <ul>
323: <li>XFree86 4.4.0 unencumbered (+ patches, and i386 contains 3.3.X servers also, thus
324: providing support for all chipsets)
1.40 tdeval 325: <li>Gcc 2.95.3 (+ patches) and 3.3.2 (+ patches)
1.28 henning 326: <li>Perl 5.8.2 (+ patches)
327: <li>Apache 1.3.29, mod_ssl 2.8.16, DSO support (+ patches)
328: <li>OpenSSL 0.9.7c (+ patches)
329: <li>Groff 1.15
330: <li>Sendmail 8.12.11
331: <li>Bind 9.2.3 (+ patches)
332: <li>Lynx 2.8.4rel.1 with HTTPS and IPv6 support (+ patches)
333: <li>Sudo 1.6.7p5
334: <li>Ncurses 5.2
335: <li>Latest KAME IPv6
336: <li>Heimdal 0.6rc1 (+ patches)
337: <li>Arla-current
338: </ul>
339: <p>
1.1 deraadt 340:
341: </ul>
342:
343: <a name="install"></a>
344: <hr>
345: <p>
346: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to install</font></h3>
347: <p>
348: Following this are the instructions which you would have on a piece of
349: paper if you had purchased a CDROM set instead of doing an alternate
350: form of install. The instructions for doing an ftp (or other style
351: of) install are very similar; the CDROM instructions are left intact
352: so that you can see how much easier it would have been if you had
353: purchased a CDROM instead.
354: <p>
355:
356: <hr>
357: Please refer to the following files on the three CDROMs or ftp mirror for
358: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 3.5 on your machine:
359: <p>
360: <ul>
361: <li>CD1:3.5/i386/INSTALL.i386
1.2 deraadt 362: <li>CD1:3.5/vax/INSTALL.vax
1.1 deraadt 363: <p>
1.2 deraadt 364: <li>CD2:3.5/amd64/INSTALL.amd64
1.1 deraadt 365: <li>CD2:3.5/macppc/INSTALL.macppc
366: <p>
367: <li>CD3:3.5/sparc/INSTALL.sparc
368: <li>CD3:3.5/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64
369: <p>
370: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.5/alpha/INSTALL.alpha
1.27 miod 371: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.5/cats/INSTALL.cats
1.1 deraadt 372: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.5/hp300/INSTALL.hp300
373: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.5/hppa/INSTALL.hppa
374: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.5/mac68k/INSTALL.mac68k
375: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.5/mvme68k/INSTALL.mvme68k
1.2 deraadt 376: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.5/mvme88k/INSTALL.mvme88k
1.1 deraadt 377: </ul>
378: <hr>
379:
380: <p>
381: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the
382: use of the "disklabel -E" command. If you are at all confused when
383: installing OpenBSD, read the relevant INSTALL.* file as listed above!
384: <p>
385:
386: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/i386:</font></h3>
387: <ul>
388: Play with your BIOS options to enable booting from a CD. The OpenBSD/i386
389: release is on CD1. If your BIOS does not support booting from CD, you will need
390: to create a boot floppy to install from. To create a boot floppy write
1.2 deraadt 391: <i>CD1:3.5/i386/floppy35.fs</i> to a floppy and boot via the floppy drive.
1.1 deraadt 392:
393: <p>
1.2 deraadt 394: Use <i>CD1:3.5/i386/floppyB35.fs</i> instead for greater scsi controller
395: support, or <i>CD1:3.5/i386/floppyC35.fs</i> for better laptop support.
1.1 deraadt 396:
397: <p>
1.83 tom 398: If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
399: you can install across the network using PXE as described in
400: the included INSTALL.i386 document.
401:
402: <p>
1.1 deraadt 403: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
1.83 tom 404: read INSTALL.i386.
1.1 deraadt 405:
406: <p>
407: To make a boot floppy under MS-DOS, use the "rawrite" utility located
1.83 tom 408: at <i>CD1:3.5/tools/rawrite.exe</i>. To make the boot floppy under a Unix OS,
1.1 deraadt 409: use the <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=
410: dd&sektion=1">dd(1)</a> utility. The following is an example usage of
411: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dd&sektion=1">dd(1)
412: </a>, where the device could be "floppy", "rfd0c", or
413: "rfd0a".
414:
415: <ul><pre>
416: # <strong>dd if=<file> of=/dev/<device> bs=32k</strong>
417: </pre></ul>
418:
419: <p>
420: Make sure you use properly formatted perfect floppies with NO BAD BLOCKS or
421: your install will most likely fail. For more information on creating a boot
422: floppy and installing OpenBSD/i386 please refer to
423: <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ4.1</a>.
424: </ul>
425:
426: <p>
1.84 miod 427: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/vax:</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 428: <ul>
1.84 miod 429: Boot over the network via mopbooting as described in INSTALL.vax.
1.1 deraadt 430: </ul>
431:
432: <p>
1.2 deraadt 433: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/amd64:</font></h3>
434: <ul>
1.84 miod 435: The 3.5 release of OpenBSD/amd64 is located on CD2.
1.83 tom 436: Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
437: your BIOS options first.
438: If you can't boot from the CD, you can create a boot floppy to install from.
1.85 tom 439: To do this, write <i>CD2:3.5/amd64/floppy35.fs</i> to a floppy, then
1.83 tom 440: boot from the floppy drive.
441:
442: <p>
443: If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
444: you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
445: INSTALL.amd64 document.
446:
447: <p>
448: If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
449: read INSTALL.amd64.
1.2 deraadt 450: </ul>
451:
452: <p>
1.84 miod 453: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/macppc:</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 454: <ul>
1.84 miod 455: Put the CD2 in your CDROM drive and poweron your machine while holding down the
456: <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
457:
458: <p>
459: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
460: /3.5/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
1.1 deraadt 461: </ul>
462:
463: <p>
464: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc:</font></h3>
465: <ul>
466: The 3.5 release of OpenBSD/sparc is located on CD3. To boot off of this CD you
467: can use one of the two commands listed below, depending on the version of your
468: ROM.
469:
470: <ul><pre>
1.86 miod 471: ok <strong>boot cdrom 3.5/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
1.1 deraadt 472: or
1.86 miod 473: > <strong>b sd(0,6,0)3.5/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
1.1 deraadt 474: </pre></ul>
475:
476: <p>
477: If your sparc does not have a CD drive, you can alternatively boot from floppy.
1.84 miod 478: To do so you need to write <i>CD3:3.5/sparc/floppy35.fs</i> to a floppy.
1.1 deraadt 479: For more information see <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ4.1</a>. To boot from
480: the floppy use one of the two commands listed below, depending on the version of
481: your ROM.
482:
483: <ul><pre>
1.86 miod 484: ok <strong>boot floppy</strong>
1.1 deraadt 485: or
1.86 miod 486: > <strong>b fd()</strong>
1.1 deraadt 487: </pre></ul>
488:
489: <p>
490: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
491: will most likely fail.
492:
493: <p>
494: If your sparc doesn't have a floppy drive nor a CD drive, you can either
495: setup a bootable tape, or install via network, as told in the
496: INSTALL.sparc file.
497: </ul>
498:
499: <p>
500: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc64:</font></h3>
501: <ul>
502: Put the CD3 in your CDROM drive and type <i>boot cdrom</i>.
503:
504: <p>
505: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
1.2 deraadt 506: <i>CD3:3.5/sparc64/floppy35.fs</i> to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
1.1 deraadt 507: floppy</i>.<br>
508: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
509: will most likely fail.
510:
511: <p>
1.2 deraadt 512: You can also write <i>CD3:3.5/sparc64/miniroot35.fs</i> to the swap partition on
1.1 deraadt 513: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
514:
515: <p>
516: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64
517: </ul>
518:
519: <p>
520: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/alpha:</font></h3>
521: <ul>
1.2 deraadt 522: <p>Write <i>FTP:3.5/alpha/floppy35.fs</i> or
523: <i>FTP:3.5/alpha/floppyB35.fs</i> (depending on your machine) to a diskette and
1.1 deraadt 524: enter <i>boot dva0</i>. Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
525:
526: <p>
527: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
528: will most likely fail.
529:
530: </ul>
531:
532: <p>
1.87 miod 533: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/cats:</font></h3>
534: <ul>
535: <p>
536: After updating the firmware to at least ABLE 1.95 if necessary, boot
537: <i>FTP:3.5/cats/bsd.rd</i> from an ABLE-supported device (such as a CD-ROM
538: or an existing FFS or EXT2FS partition).
539: </ul>
540:
541: <p>
1.1 deraadt 542: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hp300:</font></h3>
543: <ul>
544: <p>
545: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hp300.
546: </ul>
547:
548: <p>
549: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hppa:</font></h3>
550: <ul>
551: <p>
552: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
553: <a href="hppa.html#netboot">hppa platform page</a>.
554: </ul>
555:
556: <p>
557: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mac68k:</font></h3>
558: <ul>
559: <p>
560: Boot MacOS as normal and partition your disk with the appropriate A/UX
561: configurations. Then, extract the Macside utilities from
562: <i>FTP:3.5/mac68k/utils</i> onto your hard disk. Run Mkfs to create your
563: filesystems on the A/UX partitions you just made. Then, use the
564: "BSD/Mac68k Installer" to copy all the sets in <i>FTP:3.5/mac68k/</i> onto your
565: partitions. Finally, you will be ready to configure the "BSD/Mac68k
566: Booter" with the location of your kernel and boot the system.
567: </ul>
568:
569: <p>
570: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme68k:</font></h3>
571: <ul>
572: <p>
573: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
574: The network boot requires a MVME68K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
575: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme68k
576: for more details.
577: </ul>
578:
579: <p>
1.2 deraadt 580: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme88k:</font></h3>
581: <ul>
582: <p>
583: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
584: The network boot requires a MVME88K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
585: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme88k
586: for more details.
587: </ul>
588:
589: <p>
1.1 deraadt 590: <h3><font color="#e00000">Notes about the source code:</font></h3>
591: <ul>
592: src.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src. This file
593: contains everything you need except for the kernel sources, which are
594: in a separate archive. To extract:
595: <p>
596: <ul><pre>
597: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src</strong>
598: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
599: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</strong>
600: </pre></ul>
601: <p>
602: sys.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src/sys.
603: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
604: To extract:
605: <p>
606: <ul><pre>
607: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</strong>
608: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
609: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</strong>
610: </pre></ul>
611: <p>
612: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout. Using these trees it
613: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
614: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
615: Using these files
616: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
617: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
618: <p>
619: </ul>
620: <a name="ports"></a>
621: <hr>
622: <p>
623: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Ports Tree</font></h3>
624: <p>
625: A ports tree archive is also provided. To extract:
626: <p>
627: <ul><pre>
628: # <strong>cd /usr</strong>
629: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</strong>
630: # <strong>cd ports</strong>
631: </pre></ul>
632: <p>
633: The <i>ports/</i> subdirectory is a checkout of the OpenBSD ports tree. Go
634: read the <a href="ports.html">ports</a> page
635: if you know nothing about ports
636: at this point. This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
637: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
638: OpenBSD ports system.
639: <p>
640: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS (see the manpage for
641: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cvs&apropos=0&sektion=1&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">
642: cvs(1)</a> if
643: you aren't familiar with CVS) checkout of our ports. As with our complete
644: source tree, our ports tree is available via anoncvs. So, in
645: order to keep current with it, you must make the <i>ports/</i> tree
646: available on a read-write medium and update the tree with a command
647: like:
648: <p>
649: <ul><pre>
1.2 deraadt 650: # <strong>cd [portsdir]/; cvs -d anoncvsserver.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_3_5</strong>
1.1 deraadt 651: </pre></ul>
652: <p>
653: [Of course, you must replace the local directory and server name here
654: with the location of your ports collection and a nearby anoncvs
655: server.]
656: <p>
657: Note that most ports are available as packages through ftp. Updated
658: packages for the 3.5 release will be made available if problems arise.
659: <p>
660: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
661: would like to know more, the mailing list ports@openbsd.org is a good
662: place to know.
663: <p>
664:
665: <hr>
666: <a href="index.html"><img height="24" width="24" src="back.gif" border="0"
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