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24: <h2><font color="#0000e0">The OpenBSD 3.5 Release:</font></h2>
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26: Released May 1, 2004<br>
27: Copyright 1997-2004, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.89 wvdputte 28: <font color="#e00000">ISBN 0-9731791-3-9</font>
1.93 deraadt 29: <br>
30: <a href="lyrics.html#35">3.5 Song: "CARP License" and "Redundancy must be free"</a>
1.1 deraadt 31: <p>
32:
33: <a href="#new">What's New</a><br>
34: <a href="#install">How to install</a><br>
35: <a href="#ports">How to use the ports tree</a><br>
36: <a href="orders.html">Ordering a CD set</a><br>
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38: <p>
39: <h3><font color="#0000e0">
40: To get the files for this release:
41: <ul>
42: <li>Order a CDROM from our <a href="orders.html">ordering system</a>.
43: <li>See the information on <a href="ftp.html">The FTP page</a> for
44: a list of mirror machines.
45: <li>Go to the <font color="#e00000">pub/OpenBSD/3.5/</font> directory on
46: one of the mirror sites.
47: <li>Briefly read the rest of this document.
1.92 miod 48: <li>Have a look at <a href="errata35.html">The 3.5 Errata page</a> for a list
1.1 deraadt 49: of bugs and workarounds.
1.88 deraadt 50: <li>See a <a href="plus35.html">detailed log of changes</a> between the
1.1 deraadt 51: 3.4 and 3.5 releases.
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56: <strong>Note:</strong> All applicable copyrights and credits can be found
57: in the applicable file sources found in the files src.tar.gz, sys.tar.gz,
58: XF4.tar.gz, or in the files fetched via ports.tar.gz. The distribution
59: files used to build packages from the ports.tar.gz file are not included on
60: the CDROM because of lack of space.
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65: <p>
66: <h3><font color="#0000e0">What's New</font></h3>
67: <p>
68: This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.88 deraadt 69: For a comprehensive list, see the <a href="plus35.html">changelog</a> leading
1.1 deraadt 70: to 3.5.
71: <p>
72:
73: <ul>
74:
1.14 deraadt 75: <li> New platforms:
76: <ul>
1.74 deraadt 77: <li><a href="amd64.html">OpenBSD/amd64</a><br>
78: Supporting the AMD64 architecture natively,
79: with full 64-bit support, 8 extra registers in the architecture
80: to significantly increase performance, and a memory management
81: Non-Executable bit that permits full W^X support.<br>
1.94 david 82: (Note: The upcoming Intel "ia32e" AMD64-compatible CPUs have also
1.74 deraadt 83: been tested, and work, even though they lack the NX bit).
84: <li><a href="cats.html">OpenBSD/cats</a><br>
1.94 david 85: Our first entry in the ARM-CPU landscape. We intend to use this as a
1.74 deraadt 86: development platform for something else we plan for the future...
87: <li><a href="mvme88k.html">OpenBSD/mvme88k</a><br>
1.94 david 88: Supporting an older, but very cool CPU architecture, perhaps the
89: most pure RISC CPU ever.
1.14 deraadt 90: </ul>
91: <p>
92:
1.35 otto 93: <li>Replacement of the GNU
1.12 otto 94: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bc">bc(1)</a>,
95: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dc">dc(1)</a>,
1.4 deraadt 96: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nm">nm(1)</a> and
97: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=size">size(1)</a>
1.1 deraadt 98: commands with BSD licensed equivalents.
99: <p>
100:
1.5 mcbride 101: <li>A large number of bug fixes, changes, and optimizations to our packet filter
102: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>
103: including:
104: <ul>
1.19 otto 105: <li>Atomic commits of ruleset changes (reduce the chance of ending up in an
106: inconsistent state).
1.69 djm 107: <li>A 30% reduction in the size of state table entries.
1.19 otto 108: <li>Source-tracking (limit number of clients and states per client).
109: <li>Sticky-address (the flexibility of round-robin with the benefits of
110: source-hash).
1.53 mcbride 111: <li>Invert the socket match order when redirecting to
1.34 avsm 112: localhost (prevents the potential security problem of remote connections
1.19 otto 113: being identified as local).
1.5 mcbride 114: <li>Significant improvements to interface handling.
115: </ul>
116: <p>
117:
1.53 mcbride 118: <li>New tools for filtering gateway failover:
1.5 mcbride 119: <ul>
120: <li>CARP (the Common Address Redundancy Protocol)
121: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=carp">carp(4)</a>
122: allows multiple machines to share responsibility for a given IP address or
123: addresses. If the owner of the address fails, another member of the group
124: will take over for it. A discussion of the history of CARP can be found
1.62 deraadt 125: <a href="lyrics.html">here</a>.
1.5 mcbride 126: <li>Additions to the
127: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pfsync">pfsync(4)</a>
128: interface allow it to synchronise state table entries between two or more
129: firewalls which are operating in parallel, allowing stateful connections
130: to cross any of the firewalls regardless of where the state was initially
131: created.
132: </ul>
133: <p>
134:
1.6 todd 135: <li> New functionality:
136: <ul>
1.51 millert 137: <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 138: <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 139: that allows non-privileged processes to allocate a properly-permissioned pty.<br>
140: As a result any process can now open a pty easily, meaning
141: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=xterm&sektion=1">xterm(1)</a>
142: and
143: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=xconsole&sektion=1">xconsole(1)</a>
144: are no longer setuid root. (In 3.4 they were setuid root, but privilege revoking).
1.17 otto 145: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=closefrom&sektion=2">closefrom(2)</a>
146: system call has been added.
1.6 todd 147: <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 148: and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgpd&sektion=8">bgpd(8)</a>).
1.70 djm 149: <li>Network boot support for i386 and amd64, using
150: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pxeboot&sektion=8&arch=i386">pxeboot(8)</a>.
1.19 otto 151: <li>The i386 8GB boot loader limitation has been removed.
1.6 todd 152: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=spamd&sektion=8">spamd(8)</a>
1.52 beck 153: gains <a href="http://projects.puremagic.com/greylisting/">greylisting</a> support. This allows greylisting (a very powerful spam reduction technique) to be
154: done on a firewall for many mail hosts, no matter what MTA is being used.
1.80 tdeval 155: <li>Interface 'cloning', accessed by
1.6 todd 156: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&sektion=8">ifconfig(8)</a>
1.19 otto 157: commands <em>create</em> and <em>destroy</em>. E.g. `ifconfig vlan100 create'.
1.82 tdeval 158: <li>
159: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&sektion=8">ifconfig(8)</a>
160: can now be used with a generic <em>interface</em> name, for listing all such configured interfaces. E.g. `ifconfig carp'.
1.47 deraadt 161: <li>The MAKEDEV(8) manual pages are now generated, and hence, accurate.
162: <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 163: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=syslogd&sektion=8">syslogd(8)</a>
164: now supports logging to memory buffers, to be read using
165: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=syslogc&sektion=8">syslogc(8)</a>.
1.47 deraadt 166: This is useful for diskless or flash-based computers.
1.34 avsm 167: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> ESP in UDP encapsulation.
1.33 otto 168: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=malloc&sektion=3">
1.79 tdeval 169: malloc(3)</a> chunk randomization and guard pages. This helps to detect out-of-bounds
1.33 otto 170: reads and writes.
1.43 beck 171: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=authpf&sektion=8">
172: authpf(8)</a> now tags traffic in
173: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pflog&sektion=4">
174: pflog(4)</A> so that users may be associated with traffic through a NAT setup.
1.46 tedu 175: <li>hw.setperf sysctl allows controlling the speed of many new i386
1.94 david 176: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cpu&arch=i386">CPUs</a>,
1.91 henning 177: great for prolonged battery life.
1.48 beck 178: <li>XFS has been added to the GENERIC kernels so that
179: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=afsd&sektion=8">afsd(8)
180: </a> may be started easily, eliminating the need to recompile the kernel
1.49 deraadt 181: to use AFS.<br>
182: AFS can now be used anonymously by enabling it in
183: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rc.conf&sektion=8">rc.conf(8)</a>
1.48 beck 184: with no further configuration.
1.55 millert 185: <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 186: <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 187: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient&sektion=8"
188: >dhclient(8)</a> now detects when the interface it configured is modified and
189: gracefully exits.
190: e.g. repeatedly running it against the same interface leaves only the
191: last instance active.
1.6 todd 192: </ul>
193: <p>
194:
1.47 deraadt 195: <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 196: <ul>
197: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=isakmpd&sektion=8">isakmpd(8)</a>
198: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=named&sektion=8">named(8)</a>
1.47 deraadt 199: (Previously privilege revoking, but this had a small breakage).
1.13 todd 200: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pflogd&sektion=8">pflogd(8)</a>
1.6 todd 201: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tcpdump&sektion=8">tcpdump(8)</a>
202: </ul>
203: <p>
204:
205: <li> New tools:
206: <ul>
1.47 deraadt 207: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sensorsd&sektion=8">sensorsd(8)</a>, monitoring hardware sensors.
208: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=procmap&sektion=1">procmap(1)</a>, to examine a process' memory map.
209: <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 210: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pkill&sektion=1">pkill(1)</a> and
1.35 otto 211: <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 212: </ul>
213: <p>
214:
1.23 henning 215: <li> Performance improvements:
216: <ul>
1.35 otto 217: <li>Improved connection/socket lookup - about 100 times faster at 10000 sockets than 3.4.
1.72 djm 218: <li>TCP SYN cache. Greatly reduces the memory cost of half-open TCP connections.
1.71 djm 219: <li>Implemented TCP adjustments recommended by
220: <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3390.txt">RFC3390</a>,
221: controllable via
222: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sysctl&sektion=8">sysctl</a>.
1.23 henning 223: <li>OpenSSL speedup on i386, up to 100% improvement for md5, sha1, blowfish,
1.42 henning 224: des, 3des, rsa, dsa and bn.
1.77 tdeval 225: <li>OpenSSL now directly uses the new AES instructions some VIA C3 processors
226: provide, increasing AES to 780MBytes/second (so you get to see a fan-less
1.94 david 227: CPU performing AES more than 10x faster than the fastest CPU currently sold).
1.45 tedu 228: <li>Directory hashing makes lookups in large directories much faster.
1.90 mcbride 229: <li>Zeroing pages with SSE. Faster operation, and avoids clobbering the cache.
1.23 henning 230: </ul>
231: <p>
232:
1.84 miod 233: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scsi&sektion=4">SCSI(4)</a> improvements:
1.67 krw 234: <ul>
1.73 otto 235: <li>Bus probe made faster by skipping non-existent LUNs.
1.67 krw 236: <li>Bus probe made saner by elimination of spurious commands.
237: <li>Bus probe made safer by having INQUIRY commands ask only for available data.
1.81 krw 238: <li>Eliminated a race that, e.g., caused problems burning CDs at high speeds.
1.67 krw 239: <li>SCSIDEBUG output can now be restricted to specified buses.
240: <li>ASC/ASCQ diagnostic messages updated to SCSI-3 standards.
241: <li>Better error handling.
242: </ul>
243: <p>
244:
1.29 henning 245: <li>Improved hardware support, including:
246: <ul>
1.35 otto 247: <li>The <a href="/hppa.html">hppa</a> architecture gets support for many
1.29 henning 248: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pci">PCI</a>
1.37 mickey 249: 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 250: <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 251: <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 252: <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.
253: <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 254: <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 255: <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.
256: <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 257: <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 258: <li>Improved ATA and SATA support.
1.50 mickey 259: <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 260: <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 261: <li>Several fixes for <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=apm&sektion=4">apm(4)</a>.
1.63 marco 262: <li>Support for Intel 852/855/865 AGP chipsets.
1.67 krw 263: <li>Many more USB Flash and other
264: <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 265: </ul>
1.20 otto 266: <p>
267:
1.57 marco 268: <li> This release ships with Firefox for all major architectures.
269: <p>
270:
1.58 marco 271: <li> Major improvements in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pthreads&sektion=3">pthreads(3)</a>.
272: <p>
273:
1.18 sturm 274: <li> Over 2500 ports, 2300 pre-built packages.
275: <p>
276:
1.7 todd 277: <li>Many improvements for security and reliability (look for the red
1.88 deraadt 278: print in the <a href="plus35.html">complete changelog</a>).
1.7 todd 279: <p>
280:
1.19 otto 281: <li>Many improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
282: <p>
283:
1.40 tdeval 284: <li>Gcc 3.3.2, including local additions like ProPolice support, for the
1.62 deraadt 285: <a href="amd64.html">OpenBSD/amd64</a>,
286: <a href="cats.html">OpenBSD/cats</a> and
287: <a href="sparc64.html">OpenBSD/sparc64</a>
1.28 henning 288: platforms.
289: Other architectures still use gcc 2.95.3 with the same local additions.
290: <p>
1.75 markus 291: <li>OpenSSH 3.8.1:
292: <ul>
293: <li>
294: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>
295: now supports forced changes of expired passwords via
296: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=passwd&sektion=1">passwd(1)</a>.
297: <li>
298: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
299: now uses untrusted cookies for X11-Forwarding.
300: Some X11 applications might need full access to the X11 server,
301: see ForwardX11Trusted in
1.76 djm 302: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh_config&sektion=5">ssh_config(5)</a>
1.75 markus 303: and
304: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=xauth&sektion=1">xauth(1)</a>.
305: <li>
306: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
307: now supports sending application layer
308: keep-alive messages to the server. See ServerAliveInterval in
1.76 djm 309: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh_config&sektion=5">ssh_config(5)</a>.
1.75 markus 310: <li> Improved
311: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>
312: batch file support.
313: <li> New KerberosGetAFSToken option for
314: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>.
315: <li> Updated /etc/moduli file and improved performance for
316: protocol version 2.
317: <li> Support for host keys in DNS.
318: <li> The experimental "gssapi" support has been replaced with
319: the "gssapi-with-mic" to fix possible MITM attacks.
320: The two versions are not compatible.
321: </ul>
322: <p>
1.28 henning 323:
324: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
325: <ul>
326: <li>XFree86 4.4.0 unencumbered (+ patches, and i386 contains 3.3.X servers also, thus
327: providing support for all chipsets)
1.40 tdeval 328: <li>Gcc 2.95.3 (+ patches) and 3.3.2 (+ patches)
1.28 henning 329: <li>Perl 5.8.2 (+ patches)
330: <li>Apache 1.3.29, mod_ssl 2.8.16, DSO support (+ patches)
331: <li>OpenSSL 0.9.7c (+ patches)
332: <li>Groff 1.15
333: <li>Sendmail 8.12.11
334: <li>Bind 9.2.3 (+ patches)
335: <li>Lynx 2.8.4rel.1 with HTTPS and IPv6 support (+ patches)
336: <li>Sudo 1.6.7p5
337: <li>Ncurses 5.2
338: <li>Latest KAME IPv6
339: <li>Heimdal 0.6rc1 (+ patches)
340: <li>Arla-current
341: </ul>
342: <p>
1.1 deraadt 343:
344: </ul>
345:
346: <a name="install"></a>
347: <hr>
348: <p>
349: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to install</font></h3>
350: <p>
351: Following this are the instructions which you would have on a piece of
352: paper if you had purchased a CDROM set instead of doing an alternate
353: form of install. The instructions for doing an ftp (or other style
354: of) install are very similar; the CDROM instructions are left intact
355: so that you can see how much easier it would have been if you had
356: purchased a CDROM instead.
357: <p>
358:
359: <hr>
360: Please refer to the following files on the three CDROMs or ftp mirror for
361: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 3.5 on your machine:
362: <p>
363: <ul>
364: <li>CD1:3.5/i386/INSTALL.i386
1.2 deraadt 365: <li>CD1:3.5/vax/INSTALL.vax
1.1 deraadt 366: <p>
1.2 deraadt 367: <li>CD2:3.5/amd64/INSTALL.amd64
1.1 deraadt 368: <li>CD2:3.5/macppc/INSTALL.macppc
369: <p>
370: <li>CD3:3.5/sparc/INSTALL.sparc
371: <li>CD3:3.5/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64
372: <p>
373: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.5/alpha/INSTALL.alpha
1.27 miod 374: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.5/cats/INSTALL.cats
1.1 deraadt 375: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.5/hp300/INSTALL.hp300
376: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.5/hppa/INSTALL.hppa
377: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.5/mac68k/INSTALL.mac68k
378: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.5/mvme68k/INSTALL.mvme68k
1.2 deraadt 379: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.5/mvme88k/INSTALL.mvme88k
1.1 deraadt 380: </ul>
381: <hr>
382:
383: <p>
384: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the
385: use of the "disklabel -E" command. If you are at all confused when
386: installing OpenBSD, read the relevant INSTALL.* file as listed above!
387: <p>
388:
389: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/i386:</font></h3>
390: <ul>
391: Play with your BIOS options to enable booting from a CD. The OpenBSD/i386
392: release is on CD1. If your BIOS does not support booting from CD, you will need
393: to create a boot floppy to install from. To create a boot floppy write
1.2 deraadt 394: <i>CD1:3.5/i386/floppy35.fs</i> to a floppy and boot via the floppy drive.
1.1 deraadt 395:
396: <p>
1.2 deraadt 397: Use <i>CD1:3.5/i386/floppyB35.fs</i> instead for greater scsi controller
398: support, or <i>CD1:3.5/i386/floppyC35.fs</i> for better laptop support.
1.1 deraadt 399:
400: <p>
1.83 tom 401: If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
402: you can install across the network using PXE as described in
403: the included INSTALL.i386 document.
404:
405: <p>
1.1 deraadt 406: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
1.83 tom 407: read INSTALL.i386.
1.1 deraadt 408:
409: <p>
410: To make a boot floppy under MS-DOS, use the "rawrite" utility located
1.83 tom 411: at <i>CD1:3.5/tools/rawrite.exe</i>. To make the boot floppy under a Unix OS,
1.1 deraadt 412: use the <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=
413: dd&sektion=1">dd(1)</a> utility. The following is an example usage of
414: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dd&sektion=1">dd(1)
415: </a>, where the device could be "floppy", "rfd0c", or
416: "rfd0a".
417:
418: <ul><pre>
419: # <strong>dd if=<file> of=/dev/<device> bs=32k</strong>
420: </pre></ul>
421:
422: <p>
423: Make sure you use properly formatted perfect floppies with NO BAD BLOCKS or
424: your install will most likely fail. For more information on creating a boot
425: floppy and installing OpenBSD/i386 please refer to
426: <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ4.1</a>.
427: </ul>
428:
429: <p>
1.84 miod 430: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/vax:</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 431: <ul>
1.84 miod 432: Boot over the network via mopbooting as described in INSTALL.vax.
1.1 deraadt 433: </ul>
434:
435: <p>
1.2 deraadt 436: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/amd64:</font></h3>
437: <ul>
1.84 miod 438: The 3.5 release of OpenBSD/amd64 is located on CD2.
1.83 tom 439: Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
440: your BIOS options first.
441: If you can't boot from the CD, you can create a boot floppy to install from.
1.85 tom 442: To do this, write <i>CD2:3.5/amd64/floppy35.fs</i> to a floppy, then
1.83 tom 443: boot from the floppy drive.
444:
445: <p>
446: If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
447: you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
448: INSTALL.amd64 document.
449:
450: <p>
451: If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
452: read INSTALL.amd64.
1.2 deraadt 453: </ul>
454:
455: <p>
1.84 miod 456: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/macppc:</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 457: <ul>
1.84 miod 458: Put the CD2 in your CDROM drive and poweron your machine while holding down the
459: <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
460:
461: <p>
462: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
463: /3.5/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
1.1 deraadt 464: </ul>
465:
466: <p>
467: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc:</font></h3>
468: <ul>
469: The 3.5 release of OpenBSD/sparc is located on CD3. To boot off of this CD you
470: can use one of the two commands listed below, depending on the version of your
471: ROM.
472:
473: <ul><pre>
1.86 miod 474: ok <strong>boot cdrom 3.5/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
1.1 deraadt 475: or
1.86 miod 476: > <strong>b sd(0,6,0)3.5/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
1.1 deraadt 477: </pre></ul>
478:
479: <p>
480: If your sparc does not have a CD drive, you can alternatively boot from floppy.
1.84 miod 481: To do so you need to write <i>CD3:3.5/sparc/floppy35.fs</i> to a floppy.
1.1 deraadt 482: For more information see <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ4.1</a>. To boot from
483: the floppy use one of the two commands listed below, depending on the version of
484: your ROM.
485:
486: <ul><pre>
1.86 miod 487: ok <strong>boot floppy</strong>
1.1 deraadt 488: or
1.95 miod 489: > <strong>boot fd()</strong>
1.1 deraadt 490: </pre></ul>
491:
492: <p>
493: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
494: will most likely fail.
495:
496: <p>
497: If your sparc doesn't have a floppy drive nor a CD drive, you can either
498: setup a bootable tape, or install via network, as told in the
499: INSTALL.sparc file.
500: </ul>
501:
502: <p>
503: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc64:</font></h3>
504: <ul>
505: Put the CD3 in your CDROM drive and type <i>boot cdrom</i>.
506:
507: <p>
508: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
1.2 deraadt 509: <i>CD3:3.5/sparc64/floppy35.fs</i> to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
1.1 deraadt 510: floppy</i>.<br>
511: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
512: will most likely fail.
513:
514: <p>
1.2 deraadt 515: You can also write <i>CD3:3.5/sparc64/miniroot35.fs</i> to the swap partition on
1.1 deraadt 516: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
517:
518: <p>
519: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64
520: </ul>
521:
522: <p>
523: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/alpha:</font></h3>
524: <ul>
1.2 deraadt 525: <p>Write <i>FTP:3.5/alpha/floppy35.fs</i> or
526: <i>FTP:3.5/alpha/floppyB35.fs</i> (depending on your machine) to a diskette and
1.1 deraadt 527: enter <i>boot dva0</i>. Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
528:
529: <p>
530: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
531: will most likely fail.
532:
533: </ul>
534:
535: <p>
1.87 miod 536: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/cats:</font></h3>
537: <ul>
538: <p>
539: After updating the firmware to at least ABLE 1.95 if necessary, boot
540: <i>FTP:3.5/cats/bsd.rd</i> from an ABLE-supported device (such as a CD-ROM
541: or an existing FFS or EXT2FS partition).
542: </ul>
543:
544: <p>
1.1 deraadt 545: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hp300:</font></h3>
546: <ul>
547: <p>
548: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hp300.
549: </ul>
550:
551: <p>
552: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hppa:</font></h3>
553: <ul>
554: <p>
555: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
556: <a href="hppa.html#netboot">hppa platform page</a>.
557: </ul>
558:
559: <p>
560: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mac68k:</font></h3>
561: <ul>
562: <p>
563: Boot MacOS as normal and partition your disk with the appropriate A/UX
564: configurations. Then, extract the Macside utilities from
565: <i>FTP:3.5/mac68k/utils</i> onto your hard disk. Run Mkfs to create your
566: filesystems on the A/UX partitions you just made. Then, use the
567: "BSD/Mac68k Installer" to copy all the sets in <i>FTP:3.5/mac68k/</i> onto your
568: partitions. Finally, you will be ready to configure the "BSD/Mac68k
569: Booter" with the location of your kernel and boot the system.
570: </ul>
571:
572: <p>
573: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme68k:</font></h3>
574: <ul>
575: <p>
576: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
577: The network boot requires a MVME68K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
578: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme68k
579: for more details.
580: </ul>
581:
582: <p>
1.2 deraadt 583: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme88k:</font></h3>
584: <ul>
585: <p>
586: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
587: The network boot requires a MVME88K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
588: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme88k
589: for more details.
590: </ul>
591:
592: <p>
1.1 deraadt 593: <h3><font color="#e00000">Notes about the source code:</font></h3>
594: <ul>
595: src.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src. This file
596: contains everything you need except for the kernel sources, which are
597: in a separate archive. To extract:
598: <p>
599: <ul><pre>
600: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src</strong>
601: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
602: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</strong>
603: </pre></ul>
604: <p>
605: sys.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src/sys.
606: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
607: To extract:
608: <p>
609: <ul><pre>
610: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</strong>
611: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
612: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</strong>
613: </pre></ul>
614: <p>
615: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout. Using these trees it
616: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
617: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
618: Using these files
619: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
620: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
621: <p>
622: </ul>
623: <a name="ports"></a>
624: <hr>
625: <p>
626: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Ports Tree</font></h3>
627: <p>
628: A ports tree archive is also provided. To extract:
629: <p>
630: <ul><pre>
631: # <strong>cd /usr</strong>
632: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</strong>
633: # <strong>cd ports</strong>
634: </pre></ul>
635: <p>
636: The <i>ports/</i> subdirectory is a checkout of the OpenBSD ports tree. Go
637: read the <a href="ports.html">ports</a> page
638: if you know nothing about ports
639: at this point. This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
640: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
641: OpenBSD ports system.
642: <p>
643: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS (see the manpage for
644: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cvs&apropos=0&sektion=1&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">
645: cvs(1)</a> if
646: you aren't familiar with CVS) checkout of our ports. As with our complete
647: source tree, our ports tree is available via anoncvs. So, in
648: order to keep current with it, you must make the <i>ports/</i> tree
649: available on a read-write medium and update the tree with a command
650: like:
651: <p>
652: <ul><pre>
1.96 ! deraadt 653: # <strong>cd [portsdir]/; cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_3_5</strong>
1.1 deraadt 654: </pre></ul>
655: <p>
656: [Of course, you must replace the local directory and server name here
657: with the location of your ports collection and a nearby anoncvs
658: server.]
659: <p>
660: Note that most ports are available as packages through ftp. Updated
661: packages for the 3.5 release will be made available if problems arise.
662: <p>
663: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
664: would like to know more, the mailing list ports@openbsd.org is a good
665: place to know.
666: <p>
667:
668: <hr>
669: <a href="index.html"><img height="24" width="24" src="back.gif" border="0"
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