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24: <h2><font color="#0000e0">The OpenBSD 4.8 Release:</font></h2>
25: <p>
26: To be released Nov 1, 2010<br>
27: Copyright 1997-2010, Theo de Raadt.<br>
28: <font color="#e00000">ISBN 978-0-9784475-6-4</font>
29: <br>
30: <a href="lyrics.html#48">4.8 Song: "El Puffiachi"</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>Pre-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/4.8/</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="errata48.html">The 4.8 Errata page</a> for a list
50: of bugs and workarounds.
51: <li>See a <a href="plus48.html">detailed log of changes</a> between the
52: 4.7 and 4.8 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 4.8.
70: For a comprehensive list, see the <a href="plus48.html">changelog</a> leading
71: to 4.8.
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>Filesystem midlayer improvements:
95: <ul>
96: <li>...
97: </ul>
98: <p>
99:
100: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4">pf(4)</a> improvements:
101: <ul>
102: <li>...
103: </ul>
104: <p>
105:
106: <li>OpenBGPD, OpenOSPFD and other routing daemon improvements:
107: <ul>
108: <li>...
109: </ul>
110: <p>
111:
112: <li>Generic network stack improvements:
113: <ul>
114: <li>...
115: </ul>
116: <p>
117:
118: <li>Assorted improvements:
119: <ul>
120: <li>...
121: </ul>
122: <p>
123:
124: <li>Install/Upgrade process changes:
125: <ul>
126: <li>...
127: </ul>
128: <p>
129:
130: <li>OpenSSH 5.5:
131: <ul>
132: <li>New features:
133: <ul>
134: <li>...
135: </ul>
136: <li>The following significant bugs have been fixed in this release:
137: <ul>
138: <li>...
139: </ul>
140: </ul>
141: <p>
142:
143: <p>
144:
145: <li>Over 6,400 ports, major robustness and speed improvements in package tools.
146: <li>Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
147: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
148: <tr>
149: <td valign="top" width="25%">
150: <ul>
151: <li>i386: 6218
152: <li>sparc64: 5950
153: <li>alpha: 5827
154: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
155: <li>sh: XXXX
156: <li>amd64: 6166
157: <li>powerpc: 5996
158: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
159: <li>sparc: 4130
160: <li>arm: XXXX
161: <li>hppa: 5632
162: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
163: <li>vax: 1528
164: <li>mips64: 3632
165: <li>mips64el: 4486
166: </ul></td></tr></table>
167: Some highlights:
168: <ul>
1.3 landry 169: <li>Gnome 2.30.2.
1.1 deraadt 170: <li>KDE 3.5.10.
1.3 landry 171: <li>Xfce 4.6.2.
172: <li>MySQL 5.1.4i8.
173: <li>PostgreSQL 8.4.4.
174: <li>Postfix 2.7.1.
1.1 deraadt 175: <li>OpenLDAP 2.3.43.
1.3 landry 176: <li>Mozilla Firefox 3.6.8 and 3.5.11.
177: <li>Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.1.
178: <li>OpenOffice.org 3.2.1.
1.1 deraadt 179: <li>Emacs 21.4 and 22.3
1.3 landry 180: <li>Vim 7.2.444.
181: <li>PHP 5.2.13.
182: <li>Python 2.4.6, 2.5.4 and 2.6.5.
1.1 deraadt 183: <li>Ruby 1.8.6.369.
184: </ul>
185: <p>
186:
187: <li>As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
188: <p>
189:
190: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
191: <ul>
1.4 ! jasper 192: <li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.4 with xserver 1.8 + patches,
! 193: freetype 2.3.12,
! 194: fontconfig 2.8.0, Mesa 7.8.2, xterm 258 and more)
! 195: <li>Gcc 2.95.3 (+ patches), 3.3.5 (+ patches) and 4.2.1 (+patches)
1.1 deraadt 196: <li>Perl 5.10.1 (+ patches)
197: <li>Our improved and secured version of Apache 1.3, with SSL/TLS
198: and DSO support
199: <li>OpenSSL 0.9.8k (+ patches)
200: <li>Groff 1.15
1.4 ! jasper 201: <li>Mandoc 1.10.4 (+patches)
1.1 deraadt 202: <li>Sendmail 8.14.3, with libmilter
203: <li>Bind 9.4.2-P2 (+ patches)
204: <li>Lynx 2.8.6rel.5 with HTTPS and IPv6 support (+ patches)
205: <li>Sudo 1.7.2
206: <li>Ncurses 5.7
207: <li>Latest KAME IPv6
208: <li>Heimdal 0.7.2 (+ patches)
209: <li>Arla 0.35.7
210: <li>Binutils 2.15 (+ patches)
211: <li>Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
212: </ul>
213: <p>
214:
215: </ul>
216:
217: <a name="install"></a>
218: <hr>
219: <p>
220: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to install</font></h3>
221: <p>
222: Following this are the instructions which you would have on a piece of
223: paper if you had purchased a CDROM set instead of doing an alternate
224: form of install. The instructions for doing an FTP (or other style
225: of) install are very similar; the CDROM instructions are left intact
226: so that you can see how much easier it would have been if you had
227: purchased a CDROM instead.
228: <p>
229:
230: <hr>
231: Please refer to the following files on the three CDROMs or FTP mirror for
232: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 4.8 on your machine:
233: <p>
234: <ul>
235: <li>CD1:4.8/i386/INSTALL.i386
236: <p>
237: <li>CD2:4.8/amd64/INSTALL.amd64
238: <li>CD2:4.8/macppc/INSTALL.macppc
239: <p>
240: <li>CD3:4.8/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64
241: <p>
242: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/alpha/INSTALL.alpha
243: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/armish/INSTALL.armish
244: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/hp300/INSTALL.hp300
245: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/hppa/INSTALL.hppa
246: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/landisk/INSTALL.landisk
247: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/loongson/INSTALL.loongson
248: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/mvme68k/INSTALL.mvme68k
249: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/mvme88k/INSTALL.mvme88k
250: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/sgi/INSTALL.sgi
251: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/socppc/INSTALL.socppc
252: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/sparc/INSTALL.sparc
253: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/vax/INSTALL.vax
254: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.8/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus
255: </ul>
256: <hr>
257:
258: <p>
259: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the
260: use of the "disklabel -E" command. If you are at all confused when
261: installing OpenBSD, read the relevant INSTALL.* file as listed above!
262: <p>
263:
264: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/i386:</font></h3>
265: <ul>
266: Play with your BIOS options to enable booting from a CD. The OpenBSD/i386
267: release is on CD1. If your BIOS does not support booting from CD, you will need
268: to create a boot floppy to install from. To create a boot floppy write
269: <i>CD1:4.8/i386/floppy48.fs</i> to a floppy and boot via the floppy drive.
270:
271: <p>
272: Use <i>CD1:4.8/i386/floppyB48.fs</i> instead for greater SCSI controller
273: support, or <i>CD1:4.8/i386/floppyC48.fs</i> for better laptop support.
274:
275: <p>
276: If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
277: you can install across the network using PXE as described in
278: the included INSTALL.i386 document.
279:
280: <p>
281: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
282: read INSTALL.i386.
283:
284: <p>
285: To make a boot floppy under MS-DOS, use the "rawrite" utility located
286: at <i>CD1:4.8/tools/rawrite.exe</i>. To make the boot floppy under a Unix OS,
287: use the
288: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dd&sektion=1">dd(1)</a>
289: utility. The following is an example usage of
290: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dd&sektion=1">dd(1)</a>,
291: where the device could be "floppy", "rfd0c", or
292: "rfd0a".
293:
294: <ul><pre>
295: # <strong>dd if=<file> of=/dev/<device> bs=32k</strong>
296: </pre></ul>
297:
298: <p>
299: Make sure you use properly formatted perfect floppies with NO BAD BLOCKS or
300: your install will most likely fail. For more information on creating a boot
301: floppy and installing OpenBSD/i386 please refer to
302: <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ 4.3.1</a>.
303: </ul>
304:
305: <p>
306: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/amd64:</font></h3>
307: <ul>
308: The 4.8 release of OpenBSD/amd64 is located on CD2.
309: Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
310: your BIOS options first.
311: If you can't boot from the CD, you can create a boot floppy to install from.
312: To do this, write <i>CD2:4.8/amd64/floppy48.fs</i> to a floppy, then
313: boot from the floppy drive.
314:
315: <p>
316: If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
317: you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
318: INSTALL.amd64 document.
319:
320: <p>
321: If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
322: read INSTALL.amd64.
323: </ul>
324:
325: <p>
326: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/macppc:</font></h3>
327: <ul>
328: Put CD2 in your CDROM drive and poweron your machine while holding down the
329: <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
330:
331: <p>
332: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
333: /4.8/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
334: </ul>
335:
336: <p>
337: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc64:</font></h3>
338: <ul>
339: Put CD3 in your CDROM drive and type <i>boot cdrom</i>.
340:
341: <p>
342: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
343: <i>CD3:4.8/sparc64/floppy48.fs</i> or <i>CD3:4.8/sparc64/floppyB48.fs</i>
344: (depending on your machine) to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
345: floppy</i>. Refer to INSTALL.sparc64 for details.
346:
347: <p>
348: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
349: will most likely fail.
350:
351: <p>
352: You can also write <i>CD3:4.8/sparc64/miniroot48.fs</i> to the swap partition on
353: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
354:
355: <p>
356: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
357: </ul>
358:
359: <p>
360: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/alpha:</font></h3>
361: <ul>
362: <p>Write <i>FTP:4.8/alpha/floppy48.fs</i> or
363: <i>FTP:4.8/alpha/floppyB48.fs</i> (depending on your machine) to a diskette and
364: enter <i>boot dva0</i>. Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
365:
366: <p>
367: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
368: will most likely fail.
369:
370: </ul>
371:
372: <p>
373: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/armish:</font></h3>
374: <ul>
375: <p>
376: After connecting a serial port, Thecus can boot directly from the network
377: either tftp or http. Configure the network using fconfig, reset,
378: then load bsd.rd, see INSTALL.armish for specific details.
379: IOData HDL-G can only boot from an EXT-2 partition. Boot into linux
380: and copy 'boot' and bsd.rd into the first partition on wd0 (hda1)
381: then load and run bsd.rd, preserving the wd0i (hda1) ext2fs partition.
382: More details are available in INSTALL.armish.
383: </ul>
384:
385: <p>
386: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hp300:</font></h3>
387: <ul>
388: <p>
389: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hp300.
390: </ul>
391:
392: <p>
393: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hppa:</font></h3>
394: <ul>
395: <p>
396: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
397: <a href="hppa.html#install">hppa platform page</a>.
398: </ul>
399:
400: <p>
401: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/landisk:</font></h3>
402: <ul>
403: <p>
404: Write <i>miniroot48.fs</i> to the start of the CF
405: or disk, and boot normally.
406: </ul>
407:
408: <p>
409: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/loongson:</font></h3>
410: <ul>
411: <p>
412: Write <i>miniroot48.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot bsd.rd from it
413: or boot bsd.rd via tftp.
414: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.loongson for more details.
415: </ul>
416: <p>
417:
418: <p>
419: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme68k:</font></h3>
420: <ul>
421: <p>
422: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
423: The network boot requires a MVME68K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
424: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme68k
425: for more details.
426: </ul>
427:
428: <p>
429: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme88k:</font></h3>
430: <ul>
431: <p>
432: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
433: The network boot requires a MVME88K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
434: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme88k
435: for more details.
436: </ul>
437:
438: <p>
439: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sgi:</font></h3>
440: <ul>
441: <p>
442: To install on an O2, burn cd48.iso on a CD-R, put it in the CD drive of your
443: machine and select <i>Install System Software</i> from the System Maintenance
444: menu.
445:
446: <p>
447: On other systems, or if your machine doesn't have a CD drive, you can
448: setup a DHCP/tftp network server, and boot using "bootp()/bsd.rd.IP##" using
449: the kernel matching your system type.
450: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
451: </ul>
452:
453: <p>
454: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/socppc:</font></h3>
455: <ul>
456: <p>
457: After connecting a serial port, boot over the network via DHCP/tftp.
458: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.socppc for more details.
459: </ul>
460:
461: <p>
462: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc:</font></h3>
463: <ul>
464: Boot from one of the provided install ISO images, using one of the two
465: commands listed below, depending on the version of your ROM.
466:
467: <ul><pre>
468: ok <strong>boot cdrom 4.8/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
469: or
470: > <strong>b sd(0,6,0)4.8/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
471: </pre></ul>
472:
473: <p>
474: If your SPARC system does not have a CD drive, you can alternatively boot from floppy.
475: To do so you need to write <i>floppy48.fs</i> to a floppy.
476: For more information see <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ 4.3.1</a>.
477: To boot from the floppy use one of the two commands listed below,
478: depending on the version of your ROM.
479:
480: <ul><pre>
481: ok <strong>boot floppy</strong>
482: or
483: > <strong>b fd()</strong>
484: </pre></ul>
485:
486: <p>
487: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
488: will most likely fail.
489:
490: <p>
491: If your SPARC system doesn't have a floppy drive nor a CD drive, you can either
492: setup a bootable tape, or install via network, as told in the
493: INSTALL.sparc file.
494: </ul>
495:
496: <p>
497: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/vax:</font></h3>
498: <ul>
499: Boot over the network via mopbooting as described in INSTALL.vax.
500: </ul>
501:
502: <p>
503: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/zaurus:</font></h3>
504: <ul>
505: <p>
506: Using the Linux built-in graphical ipkg installer, install the
507: openbsd48_arm.ipk package. Reboot, then run it. Read INSTALL.zaurus
508: for a few important details.
509: </ul>
510:
511: <p>
512: <h3><font color="#e00000">Notes about the source code:</font></h3>
513: <ul>
514: src.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src. This file
515: contains everything you need except for the kernel sources, which are
516: in a separate archive. To extract:
517: <p>
518: <ul><pre>
519: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src</strong>
520: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
521: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</strong>
522: </pre></ul>
523: <p>
524: sys.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src/sys.
525: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
526: To extract:
527: <p>
528: <ul><pre>
529: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</strong>
530: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
531: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</strong>
532: </pre></ul>
533: <p>
534: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout. Using these trees it
535: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
536: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
537: Using these files
538: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
539: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
540: <p>
541: </ul>
542:
543: <a name="upgrade"></a>
544: <hr>
545: <p>
546: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to upgrade</font></h3>
547: <p>
548: If you already have an OpenBSD 4.7 system, and do not want to reinstall,
549: upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
550: <a href="faq/upgrade48.html">Upgrade Guide</a>.
551:
552: <a name="ports"></a>
553: <hr>
554: <p>
555: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Ports Tree</font></h3>
556: <p>
557: A ports tree archive is also provided. To extract:
558: <p>
559: <ul><pre>
560: # <strong>cd /usr</strong>
561: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</strong>
562: # <strong>cd ports</strong>
563: </pre></ul>
564: <p>
565: The <i>ports/</i> subdirectory is a checkout of the OpenBSD ports tree. Go
566: read the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">ports</a> page
567: if you know nothing about ports
568: at this point. This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
569: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
570: OpenBSD ports system.
571: <p>
572: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS (see the manpage for
573: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cvs&apropos=0&sektion=1&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386">
574: cvs(1)</a> if
575: you aren't familiar with CVS) checkout of our ports. As with our complete
576: source tree, our ports tree is available via anoncvs. So, in
577: order to keep current with it, you must make the <i>ports/</i> tree
578: available on a read-write medium and update the tree with a command
579: like:
580: <p>
581: <ul><pre>
582: # <strong>cd [portsdir]/; cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_4_8</strong>
583: </pre></ul>
584: <p>
585: [Of course, you must replace the local directory and server name here
586: with the location of your ports collection and a nearby anoncvs
587: server.]
588: <p>
589: Note that most ports are available as packages through FTP. Updated
590: packages for the 4.8 release will be made available if problems arise.
591: <p>
592: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
593: would like to know more, the mailing list ports@openbsd.org is a good
594: place to know.
595: <p>
596:
597: <hr>
598: <a href="index.html"><img height="24" width="24" src="back.gif" border="0"
599: alt="OpenBSD"></a>
600: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
601: <br><small>
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