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24: <h2><font color="#0000e0">The OpenBSD 4.7 Release:</font></h2>
25: <p>
26: Released May 19, 2010<br>
27: Copyright 1997-2010, Theo de Raadt.<br>
28: <font color="#e00000">ISBN 978-0-9784475-5-7</font>
29: <br>
30: <a href="lyrics.html#47">4.7 Song: "xxx"</a>
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/4.7/</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="errata47.html">The 4.7 Errata page</a> for a list
50: of bugs and workarounds.
51: <li>See a <a href="plus47.html">detailed log of changes</a> between the
52: 4.6 and 4.7 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 4.7.
70: For a comprehensive list, see the <a href="plus47.html">changelog</a> leading
71: to 4.7.
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>
1.3 beck 84: <li>Revamped SCSI midlayer and improved driver support
1.1 deraadt 85: </ul>
86: <p>
87:
88: <li>New tools:
89: <ul>
90: <li>...
91: </ul>
92: <p>
93:
1.6 ! beck 94: <li>Filesystem Midlayer improvements:
1.2 beck 95: <ul>
96: <li> Dynamic Buffer Cache now supported to a max size set with sysctl <tt>kern.bufcachepercent</tt>
97: <li> Dynamic VFS name cache rewrite, now uses Red/Black trees instead of linked lists.
98: <li> Numerous NFS client stability fixes.
99: </ul>
100: <p>
101:
1.1 deraadt 102: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4">pf(4)</a> improvements:
103: <ul>
104: <li>...
105: </ul>
106: <p>
107:
108: <li>OpenBGPD, OpenOSPFD and other routing daemon improvements:
109: <ul>
110: <li>...
111: </ul>
112: <p>
113:
114: <li>Generic Network-Stack improvements:
115: <ul>
116: <li>...
117: </ul>
118: <p>
119:
120: <li>Install/Upgrade process changes:
121: <ul>
1.4 beck 122: <li> You'll ususally only press enter.. It will scare you it's so easy.
1.1 deraadt 123: </ul>
124: <p>
125:
126: <li>OpenSSH 5.3:
127: <ul>
128: <li>...
129: </ul>
130: <p>
131:
132: <li>Over 5,800 ports, minor robustness improvements in package tools.
133: <li>Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
134: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
135: <tr>
136: <td valign="top" width="25%">
137: <ul>
1.5 deraadt 138: <li>i386: 5951
139: <li>sparc64: 5745
140: <li>alpha: 5489
1.1 deraadt 141: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
1.5 deraadt 142: <li>sh: 1261
143: <li>amd64: 5889
144: <li>powerpc: 5783
1.1 deraadt 145: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
1.5 deraadt 146: <li>sparc: 3584
147: <li>arm: 839
148: <li>hppa: 5179
1.1 deraadt 149: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
1.5 deraadt 150: <li>vax: 1785
151: <li>mips64: 3677
152: <li>mips64el: 3661
1.1 deraadt 153: </ul></td></tr></table>
154: Some highlights:
155: <ul>
156: <li>Gnome 2.24.3.
157: <li>KDE 3.5.10.
158: <li>Xfce 4.7.1.
159: <li>MySQL 5.0.83.
160: <li>PostgreSQL 8.3.7.
161: <li>Postfix 2.6.2.
162: <li>OpenLDAP 2.3.43.
163: <li>Mozilla Firefox 3.0.11 and 3.5.
164: <li>Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.22.
165: <li>OpenOffice.org 3.1.0.
166: <li>Emacs 21.4 and 22.3
167: <li>Vim 7.2.190.
168: <li>PHP 5.2.10.
169: <li>Python 2.4.7, 2.5.4 and 2.6.2.
170: <li>Ruby 1.8.6.369.
171: </ul>
172: <p>
173:
174: <li>As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
175: <p>
176:
177: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
178: <ul>
179: <li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.4 + patches, freetype 2.3.9,
180: fontconfig 2.6.0, Mesa 7.4.2, xterm 243 and more)
181: <li>Gcc 2.95.3 (+ patches) and 3.3.5 (+ patches)
182: <li>Perl 5.10.0 (+ patches)
183: <li>Our improved and secured version of Apache 1.3, with SSL/TLS
184: and DSO support
185: <li>OpenSSL 0.9.8k (+ patches)
186: <li>Groff 1.15
187: <li>Sendmail 8.14.3, with libmilter
188: <li>Bind 9.4.2-P2 (+ patches)
189: <li>Lynx 2.8.6rel.5 with HTTPS and IPv6 support (+ patches)
190: <li>Sudo 1.7.2
191: <li>Ncurses 5.2
192: <li>Latest KAME IPv6
193: <li>Heimdal 0.7.2 (+ patches)
194: <li>Arla 0.35.7
195: <li>Binutils 2.15 (+ patches)
196: <li>Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
197: </ul>
198: <p>
199:
200: </ul>
201:
202: <a name="install"></a>
203: <hr>
204: <p>
205: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to install</font></h3>
206: <p>
207: Following this are the instructions which you would have on a piece of
208: paper if you had purchased a CDROM set instead of doing an alternate
209: form of install. The instructions for doing an FTP (or other style
210: of) install are very similar; the CDROM instructions are left intact
211: so that you can see how much easier it would have been if you had
212: purchased a CDROM instead.
213: <p>
214:
215: <hr>
216: Please refer to the following files on the three CDROMs or FTP mirror for
217: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 4.7 on your machine:
218: <p>
219: <ul>
220: <li>CD1:4.7/i386/INSTALL.i386
221: <p>
222: <li>CD2:4.7/amd64/INSTALL.amd64
223: <li>CD2:4.7/macppc/INSTALL.macppc
224: <p>
225: <li>CD3:4.7/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64
226: <p>
227: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.7/alpha/INSTALL.alpha
228: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.7/armish/INSTALL.armish
229: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.7/hp300/INSTALL.hp300
230: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.7/hppa/INSTALL.hppa
231: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.7/landisk/INSTALL.landisk
232: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.7/mac68k/INSTALL.mac68k
233: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.7/mvme68k/INSTALL.mvme68k
234: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.7/mvme88k/INSTALL.mvme88k
235: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.7/sgi/INSTALL.sgi
236: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.7/socppc/INSTALL.socppc
237: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.7/sparc/INSTALL.sparc
238: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.7/vax/INSTALL.vax
239: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.7/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus
240: </ul>
241: <hr>
242:
243: <p>
244: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the
245: use of the "disklabel -E" command. If you are at all confused when
246: installing OpenBSD, read the relevant INSTALL.* file as listed above!
247: <p>
248:
249: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/i386:</font></h3>
250: <ul>
251: Play with your BIOS options to enable booting from a CD. The OpenBSD/i386
252: release is on CD1. If your BIOS does not support booting from CD, you will need
253: to create a boot floppy to install from. To create a boot floppy write
254: <i>CD1:4.7/i386/floppy47.fs</i> to a floppy and boot via the floppy drive.
255:
256: <p>
257: Use <i>CD1:4.7/i386/floppyB47.fs</i> instead for greater SCSI controller
258: support, or <i>CD1:4.7/i386/floppyC47.fs</i> for better laptop support.
259:
260: <p>
261: If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
262: you can install across the network using PXE as described in
263: the included INSTALL.i386 document.
264:
265: <p>
266: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
267: read INSTALL.i386.
268:
269: <p>
270: To make a boot floppy under MS-DOS, use the "rawrite" utility located
271: at <i>CD1:4.7/tools/rawrite.exe</i>. To make the boot floppy under a Unix OS,
272: use the
273: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dd&sektion=1">dd(1)</a>
274: utility. The following is an example usage of
275: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dd&sektion=1">dd(1)</a>,
276: where the device could be "floppy", "rfd0c", or
277: "rfd0a".
278:
279: <ul><pre>
280: # <strong>dd if=<file> of=/dev/<device> bs=32k</strong>
281: </pre></ul>
282:
283: <p>
284: Make sure you use properly formatted perfect floppies with NO BAD BLOCKS or
285: your install will most likely fail. For more information on creating a boot
286: floppy and installing OpenBSD/i386 please refer to
287: <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ 4.3.1</a>.
288: </ul>
289:
290: <p>
291: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/amd64:</font></h3>
292: <ul>
293: The 4.7 release of OpenBSD/amd64 is located on CD2.
294: Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
295: your BIOS options first.
296: If you can't boot from the CD, you can create a boot floppy to install from.
297: To do this, write <i>CD2:4.7/amd64/floppy47.fs</i> to a floppy, then
298: boot from the floppy drive.
299:
300: <p>
301: If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
302: you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
303: INSTALL.amd64 document.
304:
305: <p>
306: If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
307: read INSTALL.amd64.
308: </ul>
309:
310: <p>
311: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/macppc:</font></h3>
312: <ul>
313: Put CD2 in your CDROM drive and poweron your machine while holding down the
314: <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
315:
316: <p>
317: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
318: /4.7/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
319: </ul>
320:
321: <p>
322: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc64:</font></h3>
323: <ul>
324: Put CD3 in your CDROM drive and type <i>boot cdrom</i>.
325:
326: <p>
327: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
328: <i>CD3:4.7/sparc64/floppy47.fs</i> or <i>CD3:4.7/sparc64/floppyB47.fs</i>
329: (depending on your machine) to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
330: floppy</i>. Refer to INSTALL.sparc64 for 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: <p>
337: You can also write <i>CD3:4.7/sparc64/miniroot47.fs</i> to the swap partition on
338: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
339:
340: <p>
341: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
342: </ul>
343:
344: <p>
345: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/alpha:</font></h3>
346: <ul>
347: <p>Write <i>FTP:4.7/alpha/floppy47.fs</i> or
348: <i>FTP:4.7/alpha/floppyB47.fs</i> (depending on your machine) to a diskette and
349: enter <i>boot dva0</i>. Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
350:
351: <p>
352: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
353: will most likely fail.
354:
355: </ul>
356:
357: <p>
358: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/armish:</font></h3>
359: <ul>
360: <p>
361: After connecting a serial port, Thecus can boot directly from the network
362: either tftp or http. Configure the network using fconfig, reset,
363: then load bsd.rd, see INSTALL.armish for specific details.
364: IOData HDL-G can only boot from an EXT-2 partition. Boot into linux
365: and copy 'boot' and bsd.rd into the first partition on wd0 (hda1)
366: then load and run bsd.rd, preserving the wd0i (hda1) ext2fs partition.
367: More details are available in INSTALL.armish.
368: </ul>
369:
370: <p>
371: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hp300:</font></h3>
372: <ul>
373: <p>
374: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hp300.
375: </ul>
376:
377: <p>
378: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hppa:</font></h3>
379: <ul>
380: <p>
381: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
382: <a href="hppa.html#install">hppa platform page</a>.
383: </ul>
384:
385: <p>
386: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/landisk:</font></h3>
387: <ul>
388: <p>
389: Write <i>miniroot47.fs</i> to the start of the CF
390: or disk, and boot normally.
391: </ul>
392:
393: <p>
394: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mac68k:</font></h3>
395: <ul>
396: <p>
397: Boot MacOS as normal and extract the Macside "BSD/Mac68k Booter" utility from
398: <i>FTP:4.7/mac68k/utils</i> onto your hard disk. Configure the "BSD/Mac68k
399: Booter" with the location of your bsd.rd kernel and boot into the installer.
400: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.mac68k for more details.
401: </ul>
402:
403: <p>
404: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme68k:</font></h3>
405: <ul>
406: <p>
407: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
408: The network boot requires a MVME68K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
409: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme68k
410: for more details.
411: </ul>
412:
413: <p>
414: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme88k:</font></h3>
415: <ul>
416: <p>
417: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
418: The network boot requires a MVME88K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
419: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme88k
420: for more details.
421: </ul>
422:
423: <p>
424: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc:</font></h3>
425: <ul>
426: Boot from one of the provided install ISO images, using one of the two
427: commands listed below, depending on the version of your ROM.
428:
429: <ul><pre>
430: ok <strong>boot cdrom 4.7/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
431: or
432: > <strong>b sd(0,6,0)4.7/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
433: </pre></ul>
434:
435: <p>
436: If your SPARC system does not have a CD drive, you can alternatively boot from floppy.
437: To do so you need to write <i>floppy47.fs</i> to a floppy.
438: For more information see <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ 4.3.1</a>.
439: To boot from the floppy use one of the two commands listed below,
440: depending on the version of your ROM.
441:
442: <ul><pre>
443: ok <strong>boot floppy</strong>
444: or
445: > <strong>b fd()</strong>
446: </pre></ul>
447:
448: <p>
449: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
450: will most likely fail.
451:
452: <p>
453: If your SPARC system doesn't have a floppy drive nor a CD drive, you can either
454: setup a bootable tape, or install via network, as told in the
455: INSTALL.sparc file.
456: </ul>
457:
458: <p>
459: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sgi:</font></h3>
460: <ul>
461: <p>
462: Burn cd47.iso on a CD-R, put it in the CD drive of your machine and
463: select <i>Install System Software</i> from the System Maintenance menu.
464:
465: <p>
466: If your machine doesn't have a CD drive, you can
467: setup a DHCP/tftp network server, and boot using "bootp()/bsd.rd".
468: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
469: </ul>
470:
471: <p>
472: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/socppc:</font></h3>
473: <ul>
474: <p>
475: After connecting a serial port, boot over the network via DHCP/tftp.
476: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.socppc for more details.
477: </ul>
478:
479: <p>
480: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/vax:</font></h3>
481: <ul>
482: Boot over the network via mopbooting as described in INSTALL.vax.
483: </ul>
484:
485: <p>
486: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/zaurus:</font></h3>
487: <ul>
488: <p>
489: Using the Linux built-in graphical ipkg installer, install the
490: openbsd47_arm.ipk package. Reboot, then run it. Read INSTALL.zaurus
491: for a few important details.
492: </ul>
493:
494: <p>
495: <h3><font color="#e00000">Notes about the source code:</font></h3>
496: <ul>
497: src.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src. This file
498: contains everything you need except for the kernel sources, which are
499: in a separate archive. To extract:
500: <p>
501: <ul><pre>
502: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src</strong>
503: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
504: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</strong>
505: </pre></ul>
506: <p>
507: sys.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src/sys.
508: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
509: To extract:
510: <p>
511: <ul><pre>
512: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</strong>
513: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
514: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</strong>
515: </pre></ul>
516: <p>
517: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout. Using these trees it
518: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
519: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
520: Using these files
521: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
522: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
523: <p>
524: </ul>
525:
526: <a name="upgrade"></a>
527: <hr>
528: <p>
529: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to upgrade</font></h3>
530: <p>
531: If you already have an OpenBSD 4.6 system, and do not want to reinstall,
532: upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
533: <a href="faq/upgrade47.html">Upgrade Guide</a>.
534:
535: <a name="ports"></a>
536: <hr>
537: <p>
538: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Ports Tree</font></h3>
539: <p>
540: A ports tree archive is also provided. To extract:
541: <p>
542: <ul><pre>
543: # <strong>cd /usr</strong>
544: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</strong>
545: # <strong>cd ports</strong>
546: </pre></ul>
547: <p>
548: The <i>ports/</i> subdirectory is a checkout of the OpenBSD ports tree. Go
549: read the <a href="ports.html">ports</a> page
550: if you know nothing about ports
551: at this point. This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
552: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
553: OpenBSD ports system.
554: <p>
555: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS (see the manpage for
556: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cvs&apropos=0&sektion=1&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386">
557: cvs(1)</a> if
558: you aren't familiar with CVS) checkout of our ports. As with our complete
559: source tree, our ports tree is available via anoncvs. So, in
560: order to keep current with it, you must make the <i>ports/</i> tree
561: available on a read-write medium and update the tree with a command
562: like:
563: <p>
564: <ul><pre>
565: # <strong>cd [portsdir]/; cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_4_6</strong>
566: </pre></ul>
567: <p>
568: [Of course, you must replace the local directory and server name here
569: with the location of your ports collection and a nearby anoncvs
570: server.]
571: <p>
572: Note that most ports are available as packages through FTP. Updated
573: packages for the 4.7 release will be made available if problems arise.
574: <p>
575: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
576: would like to know more, the mailing list ports@openbsd.org is a good
577: place to know.
578: <p>
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