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1.42      deraadt     5: <title>OpenBSD 3.6</title>
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1.1       deraadt    23:
1.60    ! bentley    24: <h2 id=OpenBSD>
1.1       deraadt    25: <a href="index.html">
1.60    ! bentley    26: <i>Open</i><b>BSD</b></a>
        !            27: 3.6
1.53      tb         28: </h2>
1.1       deraadt    29:
1.60    ! bentley    30: <table>
        !            31: <tr>
        !            32: <td>
1.7       deraadt    33: <a href="images/Ponderosa.jpg">
1.60    ! bentley    34: <img width="255" height="343"
        !            35: src="images/Ponderosa.jpg" alt="Ponderosa"></a>
        !            36: <td>
1.33      deraadt    37: Released November 1, 2004<br>
1.1       deraadt    38: Copyright 1997-2004, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.60    ! bentley    39: <cite class=isbn>ISBN 0-9731791-4-7</cite>
1.35      deraadt    40: <br>
1.50      deraadt    41: 3.6 Song: <a href="lyrics.html#36">"Pond-erosa Puff (live)"</a>
1.59      deraadt    42: <br>
                     43: <br>
1.2       miod       44: <ul>
                     45: <li>See the information on <a href="ftp.html">The FTP page</a> for
                     46:     a list of mirror machines.
1.60    ! bentley    47: <li>Go to the <code class=reldir>pub/OpenBSD/3.6/</code> directory on
1.2       miod       48:     one of the mirror sites.
1.36      deraadt    49: <li>Have a look at <a href="errata36.html">The 3.6 Errata page</a> for a list
1.2       miod       50:     of bugs and workarounds.
1.32      miod       51: <li>See a <a href="plus36.html">detailed log of changes</a> between the
1.2       miod       52:     3.5 and 3.6 releases.
                     53: </ul>
1.54      tb         54: <p>
1.53      tb         55: All applicable copyrights and credits are in the src.tar.gz,
                     56: sys.tar.gz, xenocara.tar.gz, ports.tar.gz files, or in the
                     57: files fetched via ports.tar.gz.
1.60    ! bentley    58: </table>
1.2       miod       59:
1.53      tb         60: <hr>
1.60    ! bentley    61:
        !            62: <section id=new>
        !            63: <h3>What's New</h3>
        !            64:
1.2       miod       65: <p>
                     66: This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 3.6.
1.32      miod       67: For a comprehensive list, see the <a href="plus36.html">changelog</a> leading
1.2       miod       68: to 3.6.
                     69: <p>
                     70:
                     71: <ul>
                     72:
1.6       miod       73: <li>New platform:
1.2       miod       74: <ul>
                     75: <li><a href="luna88k.html">OpenBSD/luna88k</a><br>
                     76: Expanding the mvme88k porting effort by supporting Omron's line of
                     77: 88100-based workstations.
                     78: </ul>
                     79: <p>
                     80:
1.6       miod       81: <li>SMP support on <a href="i386.html">OpenBSD/i386</a> and <a
1.2       miod       82: href="amd64.html">OpenBSD/amd64</a> platforms.
                     83: <p>
                     84:
1.6       miod       85: <li>New functionality:
1.2       miod       86: <ul>
1.21      henning    87: <li>A cleaned up DHCP
1.60    ! bentley    88: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhcpd.8">server</a>
1.2       miod       89: and
1.60    ! bentley    90: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.8">client</a>
1.21      henning    91: implementation, now featuring privilege separation and safe defaults.
                     92: <li>A new
1.60    ! bentley    93: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ntpd.8">NTP
1.21      henning    94: daemon</a> written from scratch, which ought to fit the needs of most NTP users.
1.60    ! bentley    95: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pfctl.8">pfctl(8)</a>
1.23      jolan      96: now provides a <i>rules optimizer</i> to help improve filtering speed.
1.11      otto       97: <li>The packet filter,
1.60    ! bentley    98: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pf.4">pf(4)</a>,
1.11      otto       99: now supports nested anchors.
1.60    ! bentley   100: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/tcpdrop.8">tcpdrop(8)</a>,
1.13      jaredy    101: a command to drop TCP connections.
1.19      saad      102: <li>The NMBCLUSTERS option has been eliminated, replaced by a sysctl
                    103: with higher default values on many platforms.
1.4       otto      104: <li>Added support for cksum (three flavours), md4, sha256, sha384 and sha512 to
1.60    ! bentley   105: the <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/md5.1">md5(1)</a>
1.4       otto      106: command.
                    107: <li>Memory file systems created by the
1.60    ! bentley   108: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mount_mfs.8">mount_mfs(8)</a>
1.4       otto      109: command now can be populated immediately after creation.
1.13      jaredy    110: <li>New
1.60    ! bentley   111: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/i386/hotplugd.8">hotplugd(8)</a>
1.17      grange    112: daemon and
1.60    ! bentley   113: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/hotplug.4">hotplug(4)</a>
1.17      grange    114: device that watch for newly attached devices.
1.60    ! bentley   115: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/isakmpd.8">isakmpd(8)</a> now supports NAT-traversal and Dead Peer Detection (RFC 3706).
        !           116: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/strtonum.3">strtonum(3)</a>,
1.24      jolan     117: a simple, robust and therefore safe function to convert strings to numbers, has
1.12      otto      118: been added.
                    119: <li>On the <a href="sparc.html">OpenBSD/sparc</a> platform, StackGhost buffer
                    120: overflow exploit protection has been added.
1.14      jaredy    121: <li>A generic IEEE 802.11 framework has been added.
1.2       miod      122: </ul>
                    123: <p>
                    124:
                    125: <li>Improved hardware support, including:
                    126: <ul>
                    127: <li>Sangoma T1 and E1 cards
1.60    ! bentley   128: (<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/san.4">san(4)</a>).
1.2       miod      129: <li>Jumbo frames are now working reliably on
1.60    ! bentley   130: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/em.4">em(4)</a>,
        !           131: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sk.4">sk(4)</a>,
1.2       miod      132: and
1.60    ! bentley   133: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ti.4">ti(4)</a>
1.2       miod      134: adapters.
                    135: <li>USB 2.0
1.60    ! bentley   136: (<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ehci.4">ehci(4)</a>)
1.2       miod      137: controllers.
                    138: <li>AIC79xx-based Ultra320 SCSI adapters, such as the Adaptec 29320 and
                    139: 39320
1.60    ! bentley   140: (<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ahd.4">ahd(4)</a>).
1.13      jaredy    141: <li>The i386 and amd64 CD bootloader code no longer emulates a floppy which improves the chances
                    142: of booting on newer machines.
1.60    ! bentley   143: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/atw.4">atw(4)</a>
1.13      jaredy    144: driver for ADMtek ADM8211 802.11b wireless adapters.
1.60    ! bentley   145: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/axe.4">axe(4)</a>
1.19      saad      146: driver for ASIX Electronics AX88172 USB Ethernet adapters.
1.60    ! bentley   147: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/cdce.4">cdce(4)</a>
1.13      jaredy    148: driver for Ethernet over USB bridges.
1.60    ! bentley   149: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/i386/ichpcib.4">ichpcib(4)</a>
1.13      jaredy    150: driver for Intel ICHx/ICHx-M LPC PCI-ISA bridges.
1.60    ! bentley   151: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/i386/gscpcib.4">gscpcib(4)</a>
1.13      jaredy    152: driver for National Semiconductor Geode SC1100 PCI-ISA bridges.
1.60    ! bentley   153: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/iic.4">iic(4)</a>
1.13      jaredy    154: driver for Inter IC (I2C) master/slave buses.
1.60    ! bentley   155: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/lmtemp.4">lmtemp(4)</a>
1.13      jaredy    156: driver for National Semiconductor LM75/LM77 temperature sensors.
1.60    ! bentley   157: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/gscsio.4">gscsio(4)</a>
1.13      jaredy    158: driver for National Semiconductor Geode SC1100 Super I/O chips.
1.60    ! bentley   159: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/gpio.4">gpio(4)</a>
1.13      jaredy    160: driver and accompanying
1.60    ! bentley   161: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/i386/gpioctl.8">gpioctl(8)</a>
1.13      jaredy    162: utility for supporting General Purpose Input/Output.
1.60    ! bentley   163: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/macppc/mediabay.4">mediabay(4)</a>
1.13      jaredy    164: macppc driver for the ATA33 HD controller over removable CD.
1.60    ! bentley   165: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/i386/re.4">re(4)</a>
1.28      jsg       166: driver for Realtek 8169/8169S/8110S PCI Ethernet adapters.
1.13      jaredy    167: <li>hw.setperf sysctl hooks for PowerNow in AMD K6 and K7 processors.
1.2       miod      168: </ul>
                    169: <p>
                    170:
1.60    ! bentley   171: <li>New functionality for <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bgpd.8">bgpd(8)</a>,
1.23      jolan     172: the Border Gateway Protocol Daemon:
1.16      otto      173: <ul>
                    174: <li>Kernel memory management improvements now allow the full global
                    175: routing table to be kept in memory without customizing or tuning.
1.60    ! bentley   176: <li>Support for adding received prefixes to a <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pf.4">pf(4)</a> table.
1.19      saad      177: <li>Support for IPsec, both manually keyed and using IKE.
1.23      jolan     178: <li>Support for setting BGP communities (RFC1997) on incoming and outbound
                    179: UPDATES.
1.25      henning   180: <li>Support for NOPEER community (RFC3765).
1.16      otto      181: <li>Partial support for RFC2858 Multiprotocol Capabilities, currently only
                    182: IPv4-unicast is announced.
                    183: <li>Support for Route Reflection (RFC2796).
                    184: <li>Support for dynamic network announcements.
                    185: <li>Support for Route Refresh Capability (RFC2918).
                    186: </ul>
                    187: <p>
                    188:
1.6       miod      189: <li>Improved NFS performance and reliability.
1.5       otto      190: <p>
1.2       miod      191:
1.6       miod      192: <li>Shared libraries and gcc 3.3.2 on the <a href="hppa.html">OpenBSD/hppa</a>
                    193: port.
1.5       otto      194: <p>
1.2       miod      195:
1.14      jaredy    196: <li>Privilege separation or revocation for the following programs:
                    197: <ul>
1.60    ! bentley   198: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/afsd.8">afsd(8)</a>
        !           199: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mopd.8">mopd(8)</a>
        !           200: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pppoe.8">pppoe(8)</a>
        !           201: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rbootd.8">rbootd(8)</a>
        !           202: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhcrelay.8">dhcrelay(8)</a>,
        !           203: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.8">dhclient(8)</a>,
1.14      jaredy    204: and
1.60    ! bentley   205: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhcpd.8">dhcpd(8)</a>
1.14      jaredy    206: </ul>
                    207: <p>
                    208:
1.6       miod      209: <li>Over 2700 ports, 2500 pre-built packages.
1.2       miod      210: <p>
                    211:
                    212: <li>Many improvements for security and reliability (look for the red
1.32      miod      213: print in the <a href="plus36.html">complete changelog</a>).
1.2       miod      214: <p>
                    215:
1.9       pedro     216: <li>As usual, many improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
1.2       miod      217: <p>
                    218:
                    219: <li>OpenSSH 3.9:
                    220: <ul>
1.6       miod      221: <li>
1.60    ! bentley   222: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>
1.6       miod      223: now re-executes itself on accepting a new connection. This security
1.53      tb        224: measure ensures that all execute-time randomizations are reapplied for each
1.2       miod      225: connection rather than once, for the master process' lifetime. This includes
1.53      tb        226: mmap and malloc mappings, shared library addressing, shared library mapping
1.2       miod      227: order, ProPolice and StackGhost cookies on architectures that support
                    228: such things.
                    229: <li>Selected environment variables can now be passed between the
                    230: client and the server.
1.53      tb        231: <li>Session multiplexing: a single ssh connection can now carry
1.2       miod      232: multiple login/command/file transfer sessions.
                    233: </ul>
                    234: <p>
                    235:
                    236: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
                    237: <ul>
1.27      otto      238: <li>XFree86 4.4.0 unencumbered (+ patches, and i386 contains 3.3.6 servers
                    239: (+ patches) for legacy chipsets not supported by 4.4)
1.2       miod      240: <li>Gcc 2.95.3
1.60    ! bentley   241: (+ <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/gcc-local.1">patches</a>)
1.2       miod      242: and 3.3.2
1.60    ! bentley   243: (+ <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/gcc-local.1">patches</a>)
1.2       miod      244: <li>Perl 5.8.5 (+ patches)
                    245: <li>Apache 1.3.29, mod_ssl 2.8.16, DSO support (+ patches)
                    246: <li>OpenSSL 0.9.7d (+ patches)
                    247: <li>Groff 1.15
                    248: <li>Sendmail 8.13.0, with libmilter
                    249: <li>Bind 9.2.3 (+ patches)
                    250: <li>Lynx 2.8.5rel.2 with HTTPS and IPv6 support (+ patches)
                    251: <li>Sudo 1.6.7p5
                    252: <li>Ncurses 5.2
                    253: <li>Latest KAME IPv6
                    254: <li>Heimdal 0.6rc1 (+ patches)
                    255: <li>Arla 0.35.7
1.18      brad      256: <li>Binutils 2.14
1.2       miod      257: <li>Gdb 6.1
                    258: </ul>
                    259: <p>
                    260:
                    261: </ul>
1.60    ! bentley   262: </section>
1.2       miod      263:
                    264: <hr>
1.60    ! bentley   265:
        !           266: <section id=install>
        !           267: <h3>How to install</h3>
        !           268:
1.2       miod      269: <p>
                    270: Following this are the instructions which you would have on a piece of
                    271: paper if you had purchased a CDROM set instead of doing an alternate
                    272: form of install.  The instructions for doing an ftp (or other style
                    273: of) install are very similar; the CDROM instructions are left intact
                    274: so that you can see how much easier it would have been if you had
                    275: purchased a CDROM instead.
                    276: <p>
                    277:
                    278: <hr>
                    279: Please refer to the following files on the three CDROMs or ftp mirror for
                    280: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 3.6 on your machine:
                    281: <p>
                    282: <ul>
                    283: <li>CD1:3.6/i386/INSTALL.i386
                    284: <li>CD1:3.6/vax/INSTALL.vax
                    285: <p>
                    286: <li>CD2:3.6/amd64/INSTALL.amd64
                    287: <li>CD2:3.6/macppc/INSTALL.macppc
                    288: <p>
                    289: <li>CD3:3.6/sparc/INSTALL.sparc
                    290: <li>CD3:3.6/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64
                    291: <p>
                    292: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.6/alpha/INSTALL.alpha
                    293: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.6/cats/INSTALL.cats
                    294: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.6/hp300/INSTALL.hp300
                    295: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.6/hppa/INSTALL.hppa
                    296: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.6/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k
                    297: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.6/mac68k/INSTALL.mac68k
                    298: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.6/mvme68k/INSTALL.mvme68k
                    299: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.6/mvme88k/INSTALL.mvme88k
                    300: </ul>
                    301: <hr>
                    302:
1.60    ! bentley   303: <section id=quickinstall>
        !           304:
1.2       miod      305: <p>
                    306: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the
                    307: use of the "disklabel -E" command.  If you are at all confused when
                    308: installing OpenBSD, read the relevant INSTALL.* file as listed above!
1.60    ! bentley   309:
        !           310: <h3>OpenBSD/i386:</h3>
        !           311:
1.2       miod      312: <p>
                    313: Play with your BIOS options to enable booting from a CD. The OpenBSD/i386
                    314: release is on CD1. If your BIOS does not support booting from CD, you will need
                    315: to create a boot floppy to install from. To create a boot floppy write
                    316: <i>CD1:3.6/i386/floppy36.fs</i> to a floppy and boot via the floppy drive.
                    317:
                    318: <p>
                    319: Use <i>CD1:3.6/i386/floppyB36.fs</i> instead for greater scsi controller
                    320: support, or <i>CD1:3.6/i386/floppyC36.fs</i> for better laptop support.
                    321:
                    322: <p>
                    323: If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
                    324: you can install across the network using PXE as described in
                    325: the included INSTALL.i386 document.
                    326:
                    327: <p>
                    328: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
                    329: read INSTALL.i386.
                    330:
                    331: <p>
                    332: To make a boot floppy under MS-DOS, use the &quot;rawrite&quot; utility located
                    333: at <i>CD1:3.6/tools/rawrite.exe</i>. To make the boot floppy under a Unix OS,
1.60    ! bentley   334: use the <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dd.1">dd(1)</a>
        !           335: utility. The following is an example usage of
        !           336: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dd.1">dd(1)
1.2       miod      337: </a>, where the device could be &quot;floppy&quot;, &quot;rfd0c&quot;, or
                    338: &quot;rfd0a&quot;.
                    339:
1.60    ! bentley   340: <blockquote><pre>
        !           341: # <kbd>dd if=&lt;file&gt; of=/dev/&lt;device&gt; bs=32k</kbd>
        !           342: </pre></blockquote>
1.2       miod      343:
                    344: <p>
                    345: Make sure you use properly formatted perfect floppies with NO BAD BLOCKS or
                    346: your install will most likely fail. For more information on creating a boot
                    347: floppy and installing OpenBSD/i386 please refer to
1.55      tj        348: <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">this page</a>.
1.60    ! bentley   349:
        !           350: <h3>OpenBSD/vax:</h3>
1.2       miod      351:
                    352: <p>
                    353: Boot over the network via mopbooting as described in INSTALL.vax.
1.60    ! bentley   354:
        !           355: <h3>OpenBSD/amd64:</h3>
1.2       miod      356:
                    357: <p>
                    358: The 3.6 release of OpenBSD/amd64 is located on CD2.
                    359: Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
                    360: your BIOS options first.
                    361: If you can't boot from the CD, you can create a boot floppy to install from.
                    362: To do this, write <i>CD2:3.6/amd64/floppy36.fs</i> to a floppy, then
                    363: boot from the floppy drive.
                    364:
                    365: <p>
                    366: If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
                    367: you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
                    368: INSTALL.amd64 document.
                    369:
                    370: <p>
                    371: If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
                    372: read INSTALL.amd64.
1.60    ! bentley   373:
        !           374: <h3>OpenBSD/macppc:</h3>
1.2       miod      375:
                    376: <p>
                    377: Put the CD2 in your CDROM drive and poweron your machine while holding down the
                    378: <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
                    379:
                    380: <p>
                    381: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
                    382: /3.6/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
1.60    ! bentley   383:
        !           384: <h3>OpenBSD/sparc:</h3>
1.2       miod      385:
                    386: <p>
                    387: The 3.6 release of OpenBSD/sparc is located on CD3. To boot off of this CD you
                    388: can use one of the two commands listed below, depending on the version of your
                    389: ROM.
                    390:
1.60    ! bentley   391: <blockquote><pre>
        !           392: ok <kbd>boot cdrom 3.6/sparc/bsd.rd</kbd>
1.2       miod      393: or
1.60    ! bentley   394: > <kbd>b sd(0,6,0)3.6/sparc/bsd.rd</kbd>
        !           395: </pre></blockquote>
1.2       miod      396:
                    397: <p>
1.19      saad      398: If your SPARC system does not have a CD drive, you can alternatively boot from floppy.
1.2       miod      399: To do so you need to write <i>CD3:3.6/sparc/floppy36.fs</i> to a floppy.
1.55      tj        400: For more information see <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">this page</a>. To boot from
1.2       miod      401: the floppy use one of the two commands listed below, depending on the version of
                    402: your ROM.
                    403:
1.60    ! bentley   404: <blockquote><pre>
        !           405: ok <kbd>boot floppy</kbd>
1.2       miod      406: or
1.60    ! bentley   407: > <kbd>boot fd()</kbd>
        !           408: </pre></blockquote>
1.2       miod      409:
                    410: <p>
                    411: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
                    412: will most likely fail.
                    413:
                    414: <p>
1.19      saad      415: If your SPARC system doesn't have a floppy drive nor a CD drive, you can either
1.2       miod      416: setup a bootable tape, or install via network, as told in the
                    417: INSTALL.sparc file.
1.60    ! bentley   418:
        !           419: <h3>OpenBSD/sparc64:</h3>
1.2       miod      420:
                    421: <p>
                    422: Put the CD3 in your CDROM drive and type <i>boot cdrom</i>.
                    423:
                    424: <p>
                    425: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
                    426: <i>CD3:3.6/sparc64/floppy36.fs</i> to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
                    427: floppy</i>.<br>
                    428: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
                    429: will most likely fail.
                    430:
                    431: <p>
                    432: You can also write <i>CD3:3.6/sparc64/miniroot36.fs</i> to the swap partition on
                    433: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
                    434:
                    435: <p>
                    436: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64
1.60    ! bentley   437:
        !           438: <h3>OpenBSD/alpha:</h3>
1.2       miod      439:
                    440: <p>
1.60    ! bentley   441: Write <i>FTP:3.6/alpha/floppy36.fs</i> or
1.2       miod      442: <i>FTP:3.6/alpha/floppyB36.fs</i> (depending on your machine) to a diskette and
                    443: enter <i>boot dva0</i>. Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
                    444:
                    445: <p>
                    446: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
                    447: will most likely fail.
                    448:
1.60    ! bentley   449: <h3>OpenBSD/cats:</h3>
1.2       miod      450:
                    451: <p>
                    452: After updating the firmware to at least ABLE 1.95 if necessary, boot
                    453: <i>FTP:3.6/cats/bsd.rd</i> from an ABLE-supported device (such as a CD-ROM
                    454: or an existing FFS or EXT2FS partition).
                    455:
1.60    ! bentley   456: <h3>OpenBSD/hp300:</h3>
        !           457:
1.2       miod      458: <p>
                    459: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hp300.
1.60    ! bentley   460:
        !           461: <h3>OpenBSD/hppa:</h3>
1.2       miod      462:
                    463: <p>
                    464: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
1.38      nick      465: <a href="hppa.html#install">hppa platform page</a>.
1.2       miod      466:
1.60    ! bentley   467: <h3>OpenBSD/luna88k:</h3>
        !           468:
1.2       miod      469: <p>
                    470: Copy bsd.rd to a Mach or UniOS partition, and boot it from the PROM.
                    471: Alternatively, you can create a bootable tape and boot from it. Refer to
                    472: the instructions in INSTALL.luna88k for more details.
1.60    ! bentley   473:
        !           474: <h3>OpenBSD/mac68k:</h3>
1.2       miod      475:
                    476: <p>
                    477: Boot MacOS as normal and partition your disk with the appropriate A/UX
                    478: configurations.  Then, extract the Macside utilities from
                    479: <i>FTP:3.6/mac68k/utils</i> onto your hard disk.  Run Mkfs to create your
                    480: filesystems on the A/UX partitions you just made.  Then, use the
                    481: "BSD/Mac68k Installer" to copy all the sets in <i>FTP:3.6/mac68k/</i> onto your
                    482: partitions.  Finally, you will be ready to configure the "BSD/Mac68k
                    483: Booter" with the location of your kernel and boot the system.
                    484:
1.60    ! bentley   485: <h3>OpenBSD/mvme68k:</h3>
        !           486:
1.2       miod      487: <p>
                    488: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
                    489: The network boot requires a MVME68K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
                    490: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme68k
                    491: for more details.
                    492:
1.60    ! bentley   493: <h3>OpenBSD/mvme88k:</h3>
        !           494:
1.2       miod      495: <p>
                    496: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
                    497: The network boot requires a MVME88K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
                    498: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme88k
                    499: for more details.
1.60    ! bentley   500:
        !           501: </section>
        !           502:
        !           503: <section id=sourcecode>
        !           504: <h3>Notes about the source code:</h3>
1.2       miod      505:
                    506: <p>
                    507: src.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src.  This file
                    508: contains everything you need except for the kernel sources, which are
                    509: in a separate archive.  To extract:
1.60    ! bentley   510:
        !           511: <blockquote><pre>
        !           512: # <kbd>mkdir -p /usr/src</kbd>
        !           513: # <kbd>cd /usr/src</kbd>
        !           514: # <kbd>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</kbd>
        !           515: </pre></blockquote>
        !           516:
1.2       miod      517: <p>
                    518: sys.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src/sys.
                    519: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
                    520: To extract:
1.60    ! bentley   521:
        !           522: <blockquote><pre>
        !           523: # <kbd>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</kbd>
        !           524: # <kbd>cd /usr/src</kbd>
        !           525: # <kbd>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</kbd>
        !           526: </pre></blockquote>
        !           527:
1.2       miod      528: <p>
                    529: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout.  Using these trees it
                    530: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
                    531: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
                    532: Using these files
                    533: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
                    534: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
1.34      miod      535:
1.60    ! bentley   536: </section>
        !           537: </section>
        !           538:
1.34      miod      539: <hr>
1.60    ! bentley   540:
        !           541: <section id=upgrade>
        !           542: <h3>How to upgrade</h3>
1.34      miod      543: <p>
                    544: If you already have an OpenBSD 3.5 system, and do not want to reinstall,
                    545: upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
                    546: <a href="faq/upgrade36.html">Upgrade Guide</a>.
1.60    ! bentley   547: </section>
1.34      miod      548:
1.2       miod      549: <hr>
1.60    ! bentley   550:
        !           551: <section id=ports>
        !           552: <h3>Ports Tree</h3>
1.2       miod      553: <p>
                    554: A ports tree archive is also provided.  To extract:
                    555: <p>
1.60    ! bentley   556: <blockquote><pre>
        !           557: # <kbd>cd /usr</kbd>
        !           558: # <kbd>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</kbd>
        !           559: # <kbd>cd ports</kbd>
        !           560: </pre></blockquote>
1.2       miod      561: <p>
                    562: The <i>ports/</i> subdirectory is a checkout of the OpenBSD ports tree.  Go
1.40      jasper    563: read the <a href="faq/faq15.html">ports</a> page
1.2       miod      564: if you know nothing about ports
                    565: at this point.  This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
                    566: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
                    567: OpenBSD ports system.
                    568: <p>
                    569: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS (see the manpage for
1.60    ! bentley   570: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/cvs.1">
1.2       miod      571: cvs(1)</a> if
                    572: you aren't familiar with CVS) checkout of our ports.  As with our complete
                    573: source tree, our ports tree is available via anoncvs.  So, in
                    574: order to keep current with it, you must make the <i>ports/</i> tree
                    575: available on a read-write medium and update the tree with a command
                    576: like:
                    577: <p>
1.60    ! bentley   578: <blockquote><pre>
        !           579: # <kbd>cd [portsdir]/; cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_3_6</kbd>
        !           580: </pre></blockquote>
1.2       miod      581: <p>
                    582: [Of course, you must replace the local directory and server name here
                    583: with the location of your ports collection and a nearby anoncvs
                    584: server.]
                    585: <p>
                    586: Note that most ports are available as packages through ftp. Updated
                    587: packages for the 3.6 release will be made available if problems arise.
                    588: <p>
                    589: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
                    590: would like to know more, the mailing list ports@openbsd.org is a good
                    591: place to know.
1.60    ! bentley   592: </section>