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24: <h2><font color="#0000e0">The OpenBSD 4.9 Release:</font></h2>
25: <p>
26: Released May 1, 2011<br>
27: Copyright 1997-2011, Theo de Raadt.<br>
28: <font color="#e00000">ISBN 978-0-9784475-7-1</font>
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30: <a href="lyrics.html#49">4.9 Song: "The Answer"</a>
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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>
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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/4.9/</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="errata49.html">The 4.9 Errata page</a> for a list
50: of bugs and workarounds.
51: <li>See a <a href="plus49.html">detailed log of changes</a> between the
52: 4.8 and 4.9 releases.
53: </ul>
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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>
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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 4.9.
70: For a comprehensive list, see the <a href="plus49.html">changelog</a> leading
71: to 4.9.
72: <p>
73:
74: <ul>
75:
1.3 deraadt 76: <li>New/extended platforms:
77: <ul>
78: <li>i386 and amd64:
79: <ul>
1.11 jj 80: <li>Enabled the NTFS by default on GENERIC kernels.
81: <li>Added a <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vmt&sektion=4&format=html">vmt(4)</a> driver for VMWare tools support as a guest.
82: <li>SMP kernels can now boot on machines with up to 64 cores.
83: <li>Maximum allocation size for i386 bumped to 2G.
1.17 krw 84: <li>Maximum number of CPUs bumped to 64 on amd64.
85: <li>Handle >16 disks when searching for kernel boot device.
1.3 deraadt 86: </ul>
87: <li>sparc64:
88: <ul>
89: <li>Support the virtual disk procotol on sun4v machines well enough
90: to install them from from virtual cdroms.
1.11 jj 91: <li>Added support for the XVR-300 graphics card.
1.3 deraadt 92: </ul>
93: <li>hppa:
94: <ul>
95: <li>Multiprocessor support.
96: </ul>
97: <li>...
98: <ul>
99: <li>...
100: </ul>
101: <li>...
102: <ul>
103: <li>...
104: </ul>
105: </ul>
106: <p>
107:
108: <li>Improved hardware support, including:
109: <ul>
1.9 kevlo 110: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vte&sektion=4&format=html">vte(4)</a>
111: driver for RDC R6040 10/100 Ethernet devices.</li>
1.10 jsg 112: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rdcphy&sektion=4&format=html">rdcphy(4)</a>
113: driver for RDC Semiconductor R6040 10/100 Ethernet PHY.
114: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rsu&sektion=4&format=html">rsu(4)</a>
115: driver for Realtek RTL8188SU/RTL8192SU USB IEEE 802.11b/g/n.
116: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=urtwn&sektion=4&format=html">urtwn(4)</a>
117: driver for Realtek RTL8188CU/RTL8192CU USB IEEE 802.11b/g/n.
118: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=utwitch&sektion=4&format=html">utwitch(4)</a>
119: driver for YUREX USB twitch/jiggle of knee sensor.
120: <li>Support for AR9271, AR9280+AR7010 and AR9287+AR7010 USB IEEE 802.11a/g/n
121: adapters has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=athn&sektion=4&format=html">athn(4)</a>.
122: <li>Support for 82583V
123: has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=em&sektion=4">em(4)</a>.
124: <li>Support for Yukon 88E8059
125: has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=msk&sektion=4">msk(4)</a>.
126: <li>Support for SiS191
127: has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=se&sektion=4">se(4)</a>.
128: <li>Support for SAS2004
129: has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mpii&sektion=4">mpii(4)</a>.
130: <li>Support for NVIDIA MCP89 SATA
131: has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pciide&sektion=4">pciide(4)</a>.
132: <li>Suppport for Mobility Radeon HD 4200
133: has been added to <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=radeondrm&sektion=4">radeondrm(4)</a>.
1.18 ! krw 134: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pms&sektion=4">pms(4)</a> support has been significantly reworked and expanded.
! 135: <li>Major improvements in suspend and resume capabilities on various platforms.
1.3 deraadt 136: </ul>
137: <p>
138:
139: <li>Generic network stack improvements:
140: <ul>
1.7 dlg 141: <li>Reworking of the MCLGETI livelock algorithm to improve
142: forwarding and host performance under high network load.</li>
1.11 jj 143: <li>Added support for socket splicing.
144: <li>Added AES-GMAC support for IPSec.
1.3 deraadt 145: </ul>
146: <p>
147:
148: <li>SCSI improvements:
149: <ul>
1.6 dlg 150: <li>Improved safety when detaching SCSI devices by waiting for
151: the completion of pending commands.</li>
152: <li>Improved hotplug support on mpi(4), mpii(4).</li>
153: <li>Continued iopoolification of SCSI drivers, notably on
154: umass(4) which improves the reliability and performance of
155: multi-LUN devices.</li>
1.11 jj 156: <li>Added vscsi(4), a driver for userland handling of scsi device commands.
157: <li>Added iscsid(8), an iSCSI initiator.
1.16 krw 158: <li>Forcibly restrict devices incapable of tagged i/o to executing one command at a time.
1.17 krw 159: <li>Discover and honour read-only status of <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sd&sektion=4">sd(4)</a> devices.
160: <li>Improve <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=st&sektion=4">st(4)</a> handling of i/o residual information.
161: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sd&sektion=4">sd(4)</a> devices that can only execute one command at a time (e.g. USB) will now be allowed to spin up if necessary.
162: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cd&sektion=4">cd(4)</a> will now attach CDROM devices identified as non-removable.
1.3 deraadt 163: </ul>
164: <p>
165:
166: <li>Assorted improvements:
167: <ul>
1.16 krw 168: <li>Enabled wide character support in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ncurses&sektion=3">ncurses(3)</a>.
169: <li>Added <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nsd&sektion=8">nsd(8)</a>, an authoritative name server implementation.
170: <li>Disklabel UID support improved and added to more utilities.
171: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rarpd&sektion=8">rarpd(8)</a> now accepts a list of interfaces to listen on.
172: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhclient&sektion=8">dhclient(8)</a> now accepts 'egress' as an interface name, meaning whichever interface is marked as being in the 'egress' group.
173: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhcpd&sektion=8">dhcpd(8)</a> no longer listens on interfaces without a broadcast address (e.g. <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pflog&sektion=4">pflog(4)</a>).
174: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=who&sektion=1">who(1)</a> now displays as much of the hostname as fits on the line.
175: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tcpdump&sektion=8">tcpdump(8)</a> now correctly handles 'net' primitives when processing <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pflog&sektion=4">pflog(4)</a> traffic.
1.17 krw 176: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fdisk&sektion=8">fdisk(8)</a> now respects failure to read the MBR.
177: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fdisk&sektion=8">fdisk(8)</a> will no longer infinitely loop when encountering an improperly constructed EBR.
178: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=disklabel&sektion=8">disklabel(8)</a> no longer uses information from a failed partition addition on the next addition of the same partition.
179: <li>Many unused and obsolete <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=disktab&sektion=5">disktab(5)</a> entries removed.
1.3 deraadt 180: </ul>
181: <p>
182:
183: <li>Install/Upgrade process changes:
184: <ul>
1.8 deraadt 185: <li>Fixed the hppa CD installation process.
186: <li>Added some more free firmwares to the CD media that could fit them.
187: <li>Make the macppc upgrade script update the boot blocks (oddly, this
188: had been broken a very long time and noone noticed).
189: <li>Teach the install script about the configuration of 802.11 interfaces.
190: Visible networks can be listed, and even configured for WPA.
191: <li>The install script now passes collected entropy better to the
192: system which is booted next.
1.15 krw 193: <li>Upgrade now defaults to checking only the root filesystem.
194: <li>Upgrade no longer checks filesystems with a fs_passno of 0.
195: <li>Upgrade now asks if it should proceed even if one or more filesystem mounts fail.
196: <li>Installer now configures <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ntpd&sektion=8">ntpd(8)</a> to use all provided time source IPs.
1.3 deraadt 197: </ul>
198: <p>
199:
1.12 ajacouto 200: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rc.d&sektion=8">rc.d(8)</a>
201: for starting, stopping and reconfiguring package daemons:
202: <ul>
203: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rc.subr&sektion=8">rc.subr(8)</a>
204: framework allows for easy creation of rc scripts.
205: This framework is still evolving.
206: <li>Only a handful of packages have migrated for now.
207: <li>rc.local can still be used instead of or in addition to
208: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rc.d&sektion=8">rc.d(8)</a>.
209: </ul>
210: <p>
211:
1.4 sobrado 212: <li>OpenSSH 5.8:
1.3 deraadt 213: <ul>
214: <li>New features:
1.4 sobrado 215: <ul>
216: <li>Implement Elliptic Curve Cryptography modes for key exchange (ECDH)
217: and host/user keys (ECDSA) as specified by RFC5656. ECDH and ECDSA
218: offer better performance than plain DH and DSA at the same
219: equivalent symmetric key length, as well as much shorter keys.</li>
220: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>
221: and
222: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp-server&sektion=8">sftp-server(8)</a>:
223: add a protocol extension to support a hard link operation. It is
224: available through the "ln" command in the client. The old "ln"
225: behaviour of creating a symlink is available using its "-s" option
226: or through the preexisting "symlink" command.</li>
227: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp(1)</a>:
228: Add a new -3 option to scp: Copies between two remote hosts are
229: transferred through the local host. Without this option the data is
230: copied directly between the two remote hosts.</li>
231: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
232: automatically order the hostkeys requested by the client based on
233: which hostkeys are already recorded in known_hosts. This avoids
234: hostkey warnings when connecting to servers with new ECDSA keys,
235: since these are now preferred when learning hostkeys for the first
236: time.</li>
237: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
238: and
239: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
240: add a new IPQoS option to specify arbitrary TOS/DSCP/QoS values
241: instead of hardcoding lowdelay/throughput. (bz#1733)</li>
242: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>:
243: the sftp client is now significantly faster at performing directory
244: listings, using OpenBSD glob(3) extensions to preserve the results
245: of stat(3) operations performed in the course of its execution
246: rather than performing expensive round trips to fetch them again
247: afterwards.</li>
248: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
249: "atomically" create the listening mux socket by binding it on a
250: temporary name and then linking it into position after listen() has
251: succeeded. This allows the mux clients to determine that the server
252: socket is either ready or stale without races. Stale server sockets
253: are now automatically removed. (also fixes bz#1711)</li>
254: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
255: and
256: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
257: add a <em>KexAlgorithms</em> knob to the client and server
258: configuration to allow selection of which key exchange methods are
259: used by
260: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
261: and
262: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>
263: and their order of preference.</li>
264: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>
265: and
266: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp(1)</a>:
267: factor out bandwidth limiting code from
268: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp(1)</a>
269: into a generic bandwidth limiter that can be attached using the
270: <em>atomicio</em> callback mechanism and use it to add a bandwidth
271: limit option to
272: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>.
273: (bz#1147)</li>
1.3 deraadt 274: </ul>
275: <li>The following significant bugs have been fixed in this release:
276: <ul>
1.4 sobrado 277: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
278: and
279: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent&sektion=1">ssh-agent(1)</a>:
280: honour <em>$TMPDIR</em> for client xauth and ssh-agent temporary
281: directories. (bz#1809)</li>
282: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
283: avoid <em>NULL</em> deref on receiving a channel request on an
284: unknown or invalid channel. (bz#1842)</li>
285: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
286: remove a <em>debug()</em> that pollutes stderr on client connecting
287: to a server in debug mode. (bz#1719)</li>
288: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=scp&sektion=1">scp(1)</a>:
289: pass through ssh command-line flags and options when doing
290: remote-remote transfers, e.g. to enable agent forwarding which is
291: particularly useful in this case. (bz#1837)</li>
292: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp-server&sektion=8">sftp-server(8)</a>:
293: <em>umask</em> should be parsed as octal.</li>
294: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sftp&sektion=1">sftp(1)</a>:
1.5 sobrado 295: escape '[' in filename tab-completion.</li>
1.4 sobrado 296: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
297: Typo in confirmation message. (bz#1827)</li>
298: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
299: prevent <em>free()</em> of string in <em>.rodata</em> when
300: overriding <em>AuthorizedKeys</em> in a <em>Match</em> block.</li>
301: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
1.5 sobrado 302: Use default shell <em>/bin/sh</em> if <em>$SHELL</em> is "".</li>
1.4 sobrado 303: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
304: kill proxy command on <em>fatal()</em> (we already killed it on
305: clean exit).</li>
306: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
1.5 sobrado 307: install a <em>SIGCHLD</em> handler to reap expired child process.
1.4 sobrado 308: (bz#1812)</li>
309: <li>Support building against openssl-1.0.0a</li>
310: <li>Fix vulnerability in legacy certificate signing introduced in
311: OpenSSH-5.6 and found by Mateusz Kocielski.</li>
1.3 deraadt 312: </ul>
313: </ul>
314: <p>
315:
316: <li>Mandoc 1.10.9:
317: <ul>
318: <li>New integrated <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tbl&sektion=7">tbl(7)</a> parser and renderer.
319: <li>Support the <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=roff&sektion=7">roff(7)</a> .de, .rm, and .so requests.
320: <li>Support all roff code used in the standard <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pod2man&sektion=1">pod2man(1)</a> preamble.
321: <li>Fully support roff quoting in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=man&sektion=7">man(7)</a> documents.
322: <li>Mandoc now copes with most formatting errors that used to be fatal.
323: <li>Much simplified and improved reporting of errors and warnings.
324: <li>Significantly improved -Thtml output quality.
325: <li>The ports tree now allows ports to use either mandoc or groff
326: to render manuals.
327: </ul>
328: <p>
329:
1.14 deraadt 330: <li>Over 6,800 ports, major robustness and speed improvements in package tools.
1.3 deraadt 331: <li>Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
332: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
333: <tr>
334: <td valign="top" width="25%">
335: <ul>
336: <li>i386: 6620
337: <li>sparc64: 6225
338: <li>alpha: 6000
339: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
340: <li>sh: XXXX
341: <li>amd64: 6570
342: <li>powerpc: 6272
343: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
344: <li>sparc: 4184
1.8 deraadt 345: <li>arm: 5673
346: <li>hppa: 5838
1.3 deraadt 347: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
348: <li>vax: 1068
349: <li>mips64: 5492
350: <li>mips64el: 5499
351: </ul></td></tr></table>
352: Some highlights:
353: <ul>
354: <li>Gnome 2.32.1.
355: <li>KDE 3.5.10.
356: <li>Xfce 4.8.0.
357: <li>MySQL 5.1.54.
358: <li>PostgreSQL 9.0.3.
359: <li>Postfix 2.7.2.
360: <li>OpenLDAP 2.3.43 and 2.4.23.
361: <li>Mozilla Firefox 3.5.16 and 3.6.13.
362: <li>Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.7.
363: <li>OpenOffice.org 3.3.0rc9.
364: <li>LibreOffice 3.3.0.4
365: <li>Emacs 21.4 and 22.3.
366: <li>Vim 7.3.3.
367: <li>PHP 5.2.16.
368: <li>Python 2.4.6, 2.5.4 and 2.6.6.
369: <li>Ruby 1.8.7.330 and 1.9.2.136.
370: <li>Mono 2.8.2.
371: </ul>
372: <p>
373:
374: <li>As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
375: <p>
376:
377: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
378: <ul>
1.13 matthieu 379: <li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.6 with xserver 1.9 + patches,
380: freetype 2.4.4,
381: fontconfig 2.8.0, Mesa 7.8.2, xterm 257 and more)
1.3 deraadt 382: <li>Gcc 2.95.3 (+ patches), 3.3.5 (+ patches) and 4.2.1 (+patches) XXXX
1.11 jj 383: <li>Perl 5.12.2 (+ patches) XXXX
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385: and DSO support XXXX
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388: <li>Bind 9.4.2-P2 (+ patches) XXXX
389: <li>Lynx 2.8.6rel.5 with HTTPS and IPv6 support (+ patches) XXXX
390: <li>Sudo 1.7.2 XXXX
391: <li>Ncurses 5.7 XXXX
392: <li>Heimdal 0.7.2 (+ patches) XXXX
393: <li>Arla 0.35.7 XXXX
394: <li>Binutils 2.15 (+ patches) XXXX
395: <li>Gdb 6.3 (+ patches) XXXX
396: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 397: <p>
398:
399: </ul>
400:
401: <a name="install"></a>
402: <hr>
403: <p>
404: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to install</font></h3>
405: <p>
406: Following this are the instructions which you would have on a piece of
407: paper if you had purchased a CDROM set instead of doing an alternate
408: form of install. The instructions for doing an FTP (or other style
409: of) install are very similar; the CDROM instructions are left intact
410: so that you can see how much easier it would have been if you had
411: purchased a CDROM instead.
412: <p>
413:
414: <hr>
415: Please refer to the following files on the three CDROMs or FTP mirror for
416: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 4.9 on your machine:
417: <p>
418: <ul>
419: <li>CD1:4.9/i386/INSTALL.i386
420: <p>
421: <li>CD2:4.9/amd64/INSTALL.amd64
422: <li>CD2:4.9/macppc/INSTALL.macppc
423: <p>
424: <li>CD3:4.9/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64
425: <p>
426: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/alpha/INSTALL.alpha
427: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/armish/INSTALL.armish
428: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/hp300/INSTALL.hp300
429: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/hppa/INSTALL.hppa
430: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/landisk/INSTALL.landisk
431: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/loongson/INSTALL.loongson
432: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/mvme68k/INSTALL.mvme68k
433: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/mvme88k/INSTALL.mvme88k
434: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/sgi/INSTALL.sgi
435: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/socppc/INSTALL.socppc
436: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/sparc/INSTALL.sparc
437: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/vax/INSTALL.vax
438: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.9/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus
439: </ul>
440: <hr>
441:
442: <p>
443: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the
444: use of the "disklabel -E" command. If you are at all confused when
445: installing OpenBSD, read the relevant INSTALL.* file as listed above!
446: <p>
447:
448: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/i386:</font></h3>
449: <ul>
450: Play with your BIOS options to enable booting from a CD. The OpenBSD/i386
451: release is on CD1. If your BIOS does not support booting from CD, you will need
452: to create a boot floppy to install from. To create a boot floppy write
453: <i>CD1:4.9/i386/floppy49.fs</i> to a floppy and boot via the floppy drive.
454:
455: <p>
456: Use <i>CD1:4.9/i386/floppyB49.fs</i> instead for greater SCSI controller
457: support, or <i>CD1:4.9/i386/floppyC49.fs</i> for better laptop support.
458:
459: <p>
460: If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
461: you can install across the network using PXE as described in
462: the included INSTALL.i386 document.
463:
464: <p>
465: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
466: read INSTALL.i386.
467:
468: <p>
469: To make a boot floppy under MS-DOS, use the "rawrite" utility located
470: at <i>CD1:4.9/tools/rawrite.exe</i>. To make the boot floppy under a Unix OS,
471: use the
472: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dd&sektion=1">dd(1)</a>
473: utility. The following is an example usage of
474: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dd&sektion=1">dd(1)</a>,
475: where the device could be "floppy", "rfd0c", or
476: "rfd0a".
477:
478: <ul><pre>
479: # <strong>dd if=<file> of=/dev/<device> bs=32k</strong>
480: </pre></ul>
481:
482: <p>
483: Make sure you use properly formatted perfect floppies with NO BAD BLOCKS or
484: your install will most likely fail. For more information on creating a boot
485: floppy and installing OpenBSD/i386 please refer to
486: <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ 4.3.2</a>.
487: </ul>
488:
489: <p>
490: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/amd64:</font></h3>
491: <ul>
492: The 4.9 release of OpenBSD/amd64 is located on CD2.
493: Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
494: your BIOS options first.
495: If you can't boot from the CD, you can create a boot floppy to install from.
496: To do this, write <i>CD2:4.9/amd64/floppy49.fs</i> to a floppy, then
497: boot from the floppy drive.
498:
499: <p>
500: If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
501: you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
502: INSTALL.amd64 document.
503:
504: <p>
505: If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
506: read INSTALL.amd64.
507: </ul>
508:
509: <p>
510: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/macppc:</font></h3>
511: <ul>
512: Put CD2 in your CDROM drive and poweron your machine while holding down the
513: <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
514:
515: <p>
516: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
517: /4.9/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
518: </ul>
519:
520: <p>
521: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc64:</font></h3>
522: <ul>
523: Put CD3 in your CDROM drive and type <i>boot cdrom</i>.
524:
525: <p>
526: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
527: <i>CD3:4.9/sparc64/floppy49.fs</i> or <i>CD3:4.9/sparc64/floppyB49.fs</i>
528: (depending on your machine) to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
529: floppy</i>. Refer to INSTALL.sparc64 for details.
530:
531: <p>
532: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
533: will most likely fail.
534:
535: <p>
536: You can also write <i>CD3:4.9/sparc64/miniroot49.fs</i> to the swap partition on
537: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
538:
539: <p>
540: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
541: </ul>
542:
543: <p>
544: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/alpha:</font></h3>
545: <ul>
546: <p>Write <i>FTP:4.9/alpha/floppy49.fs</i> or
547: <i>FTP:4.9/alpha/floppyB49.fs</i> (depending on your machine) to a diskette and
548: enter <i>boot dva0</i>. Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
549:
550: <p>
551: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
552: will most likely fail.
553:
554: </ul>
555:
556: <p>
557: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/armish:</font></h3>
558: <ul>
559: <p>
560: After connecting a serial port, Thecus can boot directly from the network
561: either tftp or http. Configure the network using fconfig, reset,
562: then load bsd.rd, see INSTALL.armish for specific details.
563: IOData HDL-G can only boot from an EXT-2 partition. Boot into linux
564: and copy 'boot' and bsd.rd into the first partition on wd0 (hda1)
565: then load and run bsd.rd, preserving the wd0i (hda1) ext2fs partition.
566: More details are available in INSTALL.armish.
567: </ul>
568:
569: <p>
570: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hp300:</font></h3>
571: <ul>
572: <p>
573: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hp300.
574: </ul>
575:
576: <p>
577: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hppa:</font></h3>
578: <ul>
579: <p>
580: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
581: <a href="hppa.html#install">hppa platform page</a>.
582: </ul>
583:
584: <p>
585: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/landisk:</font></h3>
586: <ul>
587: <p>
588: Write <i>miniroot49.fs</i> to the start of the CF
589: or disk, and boot normally.
590: </ul>
591:
592: <p>
593: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/loongson:</font></h3>
594: <ul>
595: <p>
596: Write <i>miniroot49.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot bsd.rd from it
597: or boot bsd.rd via tftp.
598: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.loongson for more details.
599: </ul>
600: <p>
601:
602: <p>
603: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme68k:</font></h3>
604: <ul>
605: <p>
606: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
607: The network boot requires a MVME68K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
608: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme68k
609: for more details.
610: </ul>
611:
612: <p>
613: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme88k:</font></h3>
614: <ul>
615: <p>
616: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
617: The network boot requires a MVME88K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
618: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme88k
619: for more details.
620: </ul>
621:
622: <p>
623: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sgi:</font></h3>
624: <ul>
625: <p>
626: To install on an O2, burn cd49.iso on a CD-R, put it in the CD drive of your
627: machine and select <i>Install System Software</i> from the System Maintenance
628: menu.
629:
630: <p>
631: On other systems, or if your machine doesn't have a CD drive, you can
632: setup a DHCP/tftp network server, and boot using "bootp()/bsd.rd.IP##" using
633: the kernel matching your system type.
634: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
635: </ul>
636:
637: <p>
638: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/socppc:</font></h3>
639: <ul>
640: <p>
641: After connecting a serial port, boot over the network via DHCP/tftp.
642: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.socppc for more details.
643: </ul>
644:
645: <p>
646: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc:</font></h3>
647: <ul>
648: Boot from one of the provided install ISO images, using one of the two
649: commands listed below, depending on the version of your ROM.
650:
651: <ul><pre>
652: ok <strong>boot cdrom 4.9/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
653: or
654: > <strong>b sd(0,6,0)4.9/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
655: </pre></ul>
656:
657: <p>
658: If your SPARC system does not have a CD drive, you can alternatively boot from floppy.
659: To do so you need to write <i>floppy49.fs</i> to a floppy.
660: For more information see <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ 4.3.2</a>.
661: To boot from the floppy use one of the two commands listed below,
662: depending on the version of your ROM.
663:
664: <ul><pre>
665: ok <strong>boot floppy</strong>
666: or
667: > <strong>b fd()</strong>
668: </pre></ul>
669:
670: <p>
671: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
672: will most likely fail.
673:
674: <p>
675: If your SPARC system doesn't have a floppy drive nor a CD drive, you can either
676: setup a bootable tape, or install via network, as told in the
677: INSTALL.sparc file.
678: </ul>
679:
680: <p>
681: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/vax:</font></h3>
682: <ul>
683: Boot over the network via mopbooting as described in INSTALL.vax.
684: </ul>
685:
686: <p>
687: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/zaurus:</font></h3>
688: <ul>
689: <p>
690: Using the Linux built-in graphical ipkg installer, install the
691: openbsd49_arm.ipk package. Reboot, then run it. Read INSTALL.zaurus
692: for a few important details.
693: </ul>
694:
695: <p>
696: <h3><font color="#e00000">Notes about the source code:</font></h3>
697: <ul>
698: src.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src. This file
699: contains everything you need except for the kernel sources, which are
700: in a separate archive. To extract:
701: <p>
702: <ul><pre>
703: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src</strong>
704: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
705: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</strong>
706: </pre></ul>
707: <p>
708: sys.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src/sys.
709: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
710: To extract:
711: <p>
712: <ul><pre>
713: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</strong>
714: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
715: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</strong>
716: </pre></ul>
717: <p>
718: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout. Using these trees it
719: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
720: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
721: Using these files
722: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
723: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
724: <p>
725: </ul>
726:
727: <a name="upgrade"></a>
728: <hr>
729: <p>
730: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to upgrade</font></h3>
731: <p>
1.2 deraadt 732: If you already have an OpenBSD 4.8 system, and do not want to reinstall,
1.1 deraadt 733: upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
734: <a href="faq/upgrade49.html">Upgrade Guide</a>.
735:
736: <a name="ports"></a>
737: <hr>
738: <p>
739: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Ports Tree</font></h3>
740: <p>
741: A ports tree archive is also provided. To extract:
742: <p>
743: <ul><pre>
744: # <strong>cd /usr</strong>
745: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</strong>
746: # <strong>cd ports</strong>
747: </pre></ul>
748: <p>
749: The <i>ports/</i> subdirectory is a checkout of the OpenBSD ports tree. Go
750: read the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">ports</a> page
751: if you know nothing about ports
752: at this point. This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
753: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
754: OpenBSD ports system.
755: <p>
756: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS (see the manpage for
757: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cvs&apropos=0&sektion=1&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386">
758: cvs(1)</a> if
759: you aren't familiar with CVS) checkout of our ports. As with our complete
760: source tree, our ports tree is available via anoncvs. So, in
761: order to keep current with it, you must make the <i>ports/</i> tree
762: available on a read-write medium and update the tree with a command
763: like:
764: <p>
765: <ul><pre>
766: # <strong>cd [portsdir]/; cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_4_9</strong>
767: </pre></ul>
768: <p>
769: [Of course, you must replace the local directory and server name here
770: with the location of your ports collection and a nearby anoncvs
771: server.]
772: <p>
773: Note that most ports are available as packages through FTP. Updated
774: packages for the 4.9 release will be made available if problems arise.
775: <p>
776: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
777: would like to know more, the mailing list ports@openbsd.org is a good
778: place to know.
779: <p>
780:
781: <hr>
782: <a href="index.html"><img height="24" width="24" src="back.gif" border="0"
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