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1.1 deraadt 24: <h2><font color="#0000e0">The OpenBSD 4.5 Release:</font></h2>
25: <p>
1.8 ! deraadt 26: To be released on May 1, 2009<br>
1.1 deraadt 27: Copyright 1997-2009, Theo de Raadt.<br>
28: <font color="#e00000">ISBN 978-0-9784475-3-3</font>
29: <br>
1.8 ! deraadt 30: <a href="lyrics.html#45">4.5 Song: Not yet titled</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="#upgrade">How to upgrade</a><br>
36: <a href="#ports">How to use the ports tree</a><br>
37: <a href="orders.html">Ordering a CD set</a><br>
38:
39: <p>
40: <h3><font color="#0000e0">
41: To get the files for this release:
42: <ul>
43: <li>Order a CDROM from our <a href="orders.html">ordering system</a>.
44: <li>See the information on <a href="ftp.html">The FTP page</a> for
45: a list of mirror machines.
46: <li>Go to the <font color="#e00000">pub/OpenBSD/4.5/</font> directory on
47: one of the mirror sites.
48: <li>Briefly read the rest of this document.
49: <li>Have a look at <a href="errata45.html">The 4.5 Errata page</a> for a list
50: of bugs and workarounds.
51: <li>See a <a href="plus45.html">detailed log of changes</a> between the
52: 4.4 and 4.5 releases.
53: </ul>
54: </font></h3>
55: <br clear=all>
56:
57: <strong>Note:</strong> All applicable copyrights and credits can be found
58: in the applicable file sources found in the files src.tar.gz, sys.tar.gz,
59: xenocara.tar.gz, or in the files fetched via ports.tar.gz. The distribution
60: files used to build packages from the ports.tar.gz file are not included on
61: the CDROM because of lack of space.
62: <p>
63:
64: <a name="new"></a>
65: <hr>
66: <p>
67: <h3><font color="#0000e0">What's New</font></h3>
68: <p>
69: This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 4.5.
70: For a comprehensive list, see the <a href="plus45.html">changelog</a> leading
71: to 4.5.
72: <p>
73:
74: <ul>
75:
76: <li>New/extended platforms:
77: <ul>
78: <li>...
79: </ul>
80: <p>
81:
82: <li>Improved hardware support, including:
83: <ul>
84: <li>...
85: </ul>
86: <p>
87:
88: <li>New tools:
89: <ul>
90: <li>...
91: </ul>
92: <p>
93:
94: <li>New functionality:
95: <ul>
96: <li>...
97: </ul>
98: <p>
99:
100: <li>Assorted improvements and code cleanup:
101: <ul>
102: <li>...
103: </ul>
104: <p>
105:
106: <li>Install/Upgrade process changes:
107: <ul>
1.6 jasper 108: <li>...
1.1 deraadt 109: </ul>
110: <p>
111:
1.5 matthieu 112: <li>OpenSSH 5.2:
1.1 deraadt 113: <ul>
114: <li>...
115: </ul>
116: <p>
117:
1.4 jasper 118: <li>Over 5500 ports, minor robustness improvements in package tools.
1.1 deraadt 119: <li>Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
120: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
121: <tr>
122: <td valign="top" width="25%">
123: <ul>
124: <li>i386: XXXX
125: <li>sparc64: XXXX
126: <li>alpha: XXXX
127: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
128: <li>sh: XXXX
129: <li>amd64: XXXX
130: <li>powerpc: XXXX
131: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
132: <li>sparc: XXXX
133: <li>arm: XXXX
134: <li>hppa: XXXX
135: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
136: <li>vax: XXXX
137: <li>mips64: XXXX
138: </ul></td></tr></table>
139: Some highlights:
140: <ul>
1.3 jasper 141: <li>Gnome 2.24.3.
142: <li>GNUstep 1.18.0.
143: <li>KDE 3.5.10.
144: <li>Mozilla Firefox 3.0.6.
145: <li>Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.19.
1.4 jasper 146: <li>MySQL 5.0.77.
1.3 jasper 147: <li>OpenOffice.org 2.4.2 and 3.0.1.
148: <li>PostgreSQL 8.3.6.
149: <li>Xfce 4.4.3.
1.1 deraadt 150: </ul>
151: <p>
152:
153: <li>As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
154: <p>
155:
156: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
157: <ul>
158: <li>XXXX UPDATE THIS LIST XXXX
1.5 matthieu 159: <li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.4 + patches, freetype 2.3.7, fontconfig 2.4.2, Mesa 7.2, xterm 239 and more)
1.1 deraadt 160: <li>Gcc 2.95.3
161: (+ <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gcc-local&sektion=1">patches</a>)
162: and 3.3.5
163: (+ <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gcc-local&sektion=1">patches</a>)
1.2 jasper 164: <li>Perl 5.10.0 (+ patches)
1.1 deraadt 165: <li>Our improved and secured version of Apache 1.3, with SSL/TLS and DSO support
1.2 jasper 166: <li>OpenSSL 0.9.8j (+ patches)
1.1 deraadt 167: <li>Groff 1.15
168: <li>Sendmail 8.14.3, with libmilter
169: <li>Bind 9.4.2-P2 (+ patches)
170: <li>Lynx 2.8.5rel.4 with HTTPS and IPv6 support (+ patches)
1.5 matthieu 171: <li>Sudo 1.7
1.1 deraadt 172: <li>Ncurses 5.2
173: <li>Latest KAME IPv6
174: <li>Heimdal 0.7.2 (+ patches)
175: <li>Arla 0.35.7
176: <li>Binutils 2.15 (+ patches)
177: <li>Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
178: </ul>
179: <p>
180:
181: </ul>
182:
183: <a name="install"></a>
184: <hr>
185: <p>
186: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to install</font></h3>
187: <p>
188: Following this are the instructions which you would have on a piece of
189: paper if you had purchased a CDROM set instead of doing an alternate
190: form of install. The instructions for doing an FTP (or other style
191: of) install are very similar; the CDROM instructions are left intact
192: so that you can see how much easier it would have been if you had
193: purchased a CDROM instead.
194: <p>
195:
196: <hr>
197: Please refer to the following files on the three CDROMs or FTP mirror for
198: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 4.5 on your machine:
199: <p>
200: <ul>
201: <li>CD1:4.5/i386/INSTALL.i386
202: <p>
203: <li>CD2:4.5/amd64/INSTALL.amd64
204: <li>CD2:4.5/macppc/INSTALL.macppc
205: <p>
206: <li>CD3:4.5/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64
207: <p>
208: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.5/alpha/INSTALL.alpha
209: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.5/armish/INSTALL.armish
210: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.5/hp300/INSTALL.hp300
211: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.5/hppa/INSTALL.hppa
212: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.5/landisk/INSTALL.landisk
213: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.5/mac68k/INSTALL.mac68k
214: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.5/mvme68k/INSTALL.mvme68k
215: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.5/mvme88k/INSTALL.mvme88k
216: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.5/sgi/INSTALL.sgi
1.6 jasper 217: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.5/socppc/INSTALL.socppc
1.1 deraadt 218: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.5/sparc/INSTALL.sparc
219: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.5/vax/INSTALL.vax
220: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.5/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus
221: </ul>
222: <hr>
223:
224: <p>
225: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the
226: use of the "disklabel -E" command. If you are at all confused when
227: installing OpenBSD, read the relevant INSTALL.* file as listed above!
228: <p>
229:
230: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/i386:</font></h3>
231: <ul>
232: Play with your BIOS options to enable booting from a CD. The OpenBSD/i386
233: release is on CD1. If your BIOS does not support booting from CD, you will need
234: to create a boot floppy to install from. To create a boot floppy write
235: <i>CD1:4.5/i386/floppy45.fs</i> to a floppy and boot via the floppy drive.
236:
237: <p>
238: Use <i>CD1:4.5/i386/floppyB45.fs</i> instead for greater SCSI controller
239: support, or <i>CD1:4.5/i386/floppyC45.fs</i> for better laptop support.
240:
241: <p>
242: If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
243: you can install across the network using PXE as described in
244: the included INSTALL.i386 document.
245:
246: <p>
247: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
248: read INSTALL.i386.
249:
250: <p>
251: To make a boot floppy under MS-DOS, use the "rawrite" utility located
252: at <i>CD1:4.5/tools/rawrite.exe</i>. To make the boot floppy under a Unix OS,
253: use the
254: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dd&sektion=1">dd(1)</a>
255: utility. The following is an example usage of
256: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dd&sektion=1">dd(1)</a>,
257: where the device could be "floppy", "rfd0c", or
258: "rfd0a".
259:
260: <ul><pre>
261: # <strong>dd if=<file> of=/dev/<device> bs=32k</strong>
262: </pre></ul>
263:
264: <p>
265: Make sure you use properly formatted perfect floppies with NO BAD BLOCKS or
266: your install will most likely fail. For more information on creating a boot
267: floppy and installing OpenBSD/i386 please refer to
268: <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ 4.3.1</a>.
269: </ul>
270:
271: <p>
272: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/amd64:</font></h3>
273: <ul>
274: The 4.5 release of OpenBSD/amd64 is located on CD2.
275: Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
276: your BIOS options first.
277: If you can't boot from the CD, you can create a boot floppy to install from.
278: To do this, write <i>CD2:4.5/amd64/floppy45.fs</i> to a floppy, then
279: boot from the floppy drive.
280:
281: <p>
282: If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
283: you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
284: INSTALL.amd64 document.
285:
286: <p>
287: If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
288: read INSTALL.amd64.
289: </ul>
290:
291: <p>
292: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/macppc:</font></h3>
293: <ul>
294: Put CD2 in your CDROM drive and poweron your machine while holding down the
295: <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
296:
297: <p>
298: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
299: /4.5/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
300: </ul>
301:
302: <p>
303: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc64:</font></h3>
304: <ul>
305: Put CD3 in your CDROM drive and type <i>boot cdrom</i>.
306:
307: <p>
308: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
309: <i>CD3:4.5/sparc64/floppy45.fs</i> or <i>CD3:4.5/sparc64/floppyB45.fs</i>
310: (depending on your machine) to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
311: floppy</i>. Refer to INSTALL.sparc64 for details.
312:
313: <p>
314: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
315: will most likely fail.
316:
317: <p>
318: You can also write <i>CD3:4.5/sparc64/miniroot45.fs</i> to the swap partition on
319: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
320:
321: <p>
322: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
323: </ul>
324:
325: <p>
326: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/alpha:</font></h3>
327: <ul>
328: <p>Write <i>FTP:4.5/alpha/floppy45.fs</i> or
329: <i>FTP:4.5/alpha/floppyB45.fs</i> (depending on your machine) to a diskette and
330: enter <i>boot dva0</i>. Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
331:
332: <p>
333: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
334: will most likely fail.
335:
336: </ul>
337:
338: <p>
339: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/armish:</font></h3>
340: <ul>
341: <p>
342: After connecting a serial port, Thecus can boot directly from the network
343: either tftp or http. Configure the network using fconfig, reset,
344: then load bsd.rd, see INSTALL.armish for specific details.
345: IOData HDL-G can only boot from an EXT-2 partition. Boot into linux
346: and copy 'boot' and bsd.rd into the first partition on wd0 (hda1)
347: then load and run bsd.rd, preserving the wd0i (hda1) ext2fs partition.
348: More details are available in INSTALL.armish.
349: </ul>
350:
351: <p>
352: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hp300:</font></h3>
353: <ul>
354: <p>
355: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hp300.
356: </ul>
357:
358: <p>
359: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hppa:</font></h3>
360: <ul>
361: <p>
362: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
363: <a href="hppa.html#install">hppa platform page</a>.
364: </ul>
365:
366: <p>
367: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/landisk:</font></h3>
368: <ul>
369: <p>
370: Write <i>miniroot45.fs</i> to the start of the CF
371: or disk, and boot normally.
372: </ul>
373:
374: <p>
375: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mac68k:</font></h3>
376: <ul>
377: <p>
378: Boot MacOS as normal and extract the Macside "BSD/Mac68k Booter" utility from
379: <i>FTP:4.5/mac68k/utils</i> onto your hard disk. Configure the "BSD/Mac68k
380: Booter" with the location of your bsd.rd kernel and boot into the installer.
381: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.mac68k for more details.
382: </ul>
383:
384: <p>
385: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme68k:</font></h3>
386: <ul>
387: <p>
388: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
389: The network boot requires a MVME68K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
390: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme68k
391: for more details.
392: </ul>
393:
394: <p>
395: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme88k:</font></h3>
396: <ul>
397: <p>
398: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
399: The network boot requires a MVME88K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
400: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme88k
401: for more details.
402: </ul>
403:
404: <p>
405: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc:</font></h3>
406: <ul>
407: Boot from one of the provided install ISO images, using one of the two
408: commands listed below, depending on the version of your ROM.
409:
410: <ul><pre>
411: ok <strong>boot cdrom 4.5/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
412: or
413: > <strong>b sd(0,6,0)4.5/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
414: </pre></ul>
415:
416: <p>
417: If your SPARC system does not have a CD drive, you can alternatively boot from floppy.
418: To do so you need to write <i>floppy45.fs</i> to a floppy.
419: For more information see <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ 4.3.1</a>.
420: To boot from the floppy use one of the two commands listed below,
421: depending on the version of your ROM.
422:
423: <ul><pre>
424: ok <strong>boot floppy</strong>
425: or
426: > <strong>b fd()</strong>
427: </pre></ul>
428:
429: <p>
430: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
431: will most likely fail.
432:
433: <p>
434: If your SPARC system doesn't have a floppy drive nor a CD drive, you can either
435: setup a bootable tape, or install via network, as told in the
436: INSTALL.sparc file.
437: </ul>
438:
439: <p>
440: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sgi:</font></h3>
441: <ul>
442: <p>
443: Burn cd45.iso on a CD-R, put it in the CD drive of your machine and
444: select <i>Install System Software</i> from the System Maintenance menu.
445:
446: <p>
447: If your machine doesn't have a CD drive, you can
448: setup a DHCP/tftp network server, and boot using "bootp()/bsd.rd".
449: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
450: </ul>
451:
452: <p>
1.6 jasper 453: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/socppc:</font></h3>
454: <ul>
455: <p>
456: After connecting a serial port, boot over the network via DHCP/tftp.
457: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.socppc for more details.
458: </ul>
459:
460: <p>
1.1 deraadt 461: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/vax:</font></h3>
462: <ul>
463: Boot over the network via mopbooting as described in INSTALL.vax.
464: </ul>
465:
466: <p>
467: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/zaurus:</font></h3>
468: <ul>
469: <p>
470: Using the Linux built-in graphical ipkg installer, install the
471: openbsd45_arm.ipk package. Reboot, then run it. Read INSTALL.zaurus
472: for a few important details.
473: </ul>
474:
475: <p>
476: <h3><font color="#e00000">Notes about the source code:</font></h3>
477: <ul>
478: src.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src. This file
479: contains everything you need except for the kernel sources, which are
480: in a separate archive. To extract:
481: <p>
482: <ul><pre>
483: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src</strong>
484: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
485: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</strong>
486: </pre></ul>
487: <p>
488: sys.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src/sys.
489: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
490: To extract:
491: <p>
492: <ul><pre>
493: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</strong>
494: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
495: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</strong>
496: </pre></ul>
497: <p>
498: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout. Using these trees it
499: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
500: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
501: Using these files
502: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
503: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
504: <p>
505: </ul>
506:
507: <a name="upgrade"></a>
508: <hr>
509: <p>
510: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to upgrade</font></h3>
511: <p>
512: If you already have an OpenBSD 4.4 system, and do not want to reinstall,
513: upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
514: <a href="faq/upgrade45.html">Upgrade Guide</a>.
515:
516: <a name="ports"></a>
517: <hr>
518: <p>
519: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Ports Tree</font></h3>
520: <p>
521: A ports tree archive is also provided. To extract:
522: <p>
523: <ul><pre>
524: # <strong>cd /usr</strong>
525: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</strong>
526: # <strong>cd ports</strong>
527: </pre></ul>
528: <p>
529: The <i>ports/</i> subdirectory is a checkout of the OpenBSD ports tree. Go
530: read the <a href="ports.html">ports</a> page
531: if you know nothing about ports
532: at this point. This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
533: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
534: OpenBSD ports system.
535: <p>
536: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS (see the manpage for
537: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cvs&apropos=0&sektion=1&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">
538: cvs(1)</a> if
539: you aren't familiar with CVS) checkout of our ports. As with our complete
540: source tree, our ports tree is available via anoncvs. So, in
541: order to keep current with it, you must make the <i>ports/</i> tree
542: available on a read-write medium and update the tree with a command
543: like:
544: <p>
545: <ul><pre>
1.7 jasper 546: # <strong>cd [portsdir]/; cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_4_5</strong>
1.1 deraadt 547: </pre></ul>
548: <p>
549: [Of course, you must replace the local directory and server name here
550: with the location of your ports collection and a nearby anoncvs
551: server.]
552: <p>
553: Note that most ports are available as packages through FTP. Updated
554: packages for the 4.5 release will be made available if problems arise.
555: <p>
556: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
557: would like to know more, the mailing list ports@openbsd.org is a good
558: place to know.
559: <p>
560:
561: <hr>
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