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1.7 deraadt 21: To be released Oct 18, 2015<br>
1.1 deraadt 22: Copyright 1997-2015, Theo de Raadt.<br>
23: <font color="#e00000">ISBN 978-0-9881561-6-6</font>
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29: <li>Order a CDROM from our <a href="https://openbsdstore.com">ordering system</a>.
30: <li>See the information on <a href="ftp.html">the FTP page</a> for
31: a list of mirror machines.
32: <li>Go to the <font color="#e00000">pub/OpenBSD/5.8/</font> directory on
33: one of the mirror sites.
34: <li>Have a look at <a href="errata58.html">the 5.8 errata page</a> for a list
35: of bugs and workarounds.
36: <li>See a <a href="plus58.html">detailed log of changes</a> between the
37: 5.7 and 5.8 releases.
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39: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=signify&sektion=1">signify(1)</a> pubkeys for this release:<br>
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48: file sources found in the files src.tar.gz, sys.tar.gz,
49: xenocara.tar.gz, or in the files fetched via ports.tar.gz. The
50: distribution files used to build packages from the ports.tar.gz file
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56: <p>
57: <h3><font color="#0000e0">What's New</font></h3>
58: <p>
59: This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 5.8.
60: For a comprehensive list, see the <a href="plus58.html">changelog</a> leading
61: to 5.8.
62: <p>
63:
64: <ul>
65: <li>Improved hardware support, including:
66: <ul>
1.13 sthen 67: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/ugold.4?query=ugold&sec=4">ugold(4)</a> driver now supports TEMPerHUMV1.x temperature and humidity sensors.
68: <li>Improved sensor support for the <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/upd.4?query=upd&sec=4">upd(4)</a> driver for USB Power Devices (UPS).
69: <li>Support for jumbo frames on <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/re.4?query=re&sec=4">re(4)</a> devices using RTL8168C/D/E/F/G and RTL8411, including PC Engines APU.
70: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/re.4?query=re&sec=4">re(4)</a> now works with newer devices e.g. RTL8111GU.
71: <li>Partial support has been added for full-speed isochronous devices in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/ehci.4?query=ehci&sec=4">ehci(4)</a>, allowing USB 1.1 audio devices to be used on EHCI-only systems in some cases.
1.20 mpi 72: <li>New <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/macppc/hpb.4?query=hpb&sec=4&arch=macppc">hpb(4)</a> driver for HyperTransport bridges as found in the IBM CPC945
73: <li>Improved macppc stability and G5 performances with MP kernels
1.1 deraadt 74: <li>...
75: </ul>
76: <p>
77:
78: <li>Removed hardware support:
79: <ul>
80: <li>...
81: </ul>
82: <p>
83:
84: <li>Generic network stack improvements:
85: <ul>
1.13 sthen 86: <li>MTU of <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vlan&sektion=4">vlan(4)</a> devices can now be set independently from the parent interface's MTU.
87: <li>The same network range can now be assigned to multiple interfaces, using interface priorities to choose between them.
1.1 deraadt 88: <li>...
89: </ul>
90: <p>
91:
92: <li>Installer improvements:
93: <ul>
1.19 benno 94: <li>in <a
95: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man8/autoinstall.8?query=autoinstall&sec=8">autoinstalls</a>,
96: a template can be passed to <a
97: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man8/disklabel.8?query=disklabel&sec=8">disklabel(8)</a>
98: to automatically partition the disk.
1.21 guenther 99: <li>DUID support has improved enough that new installs now use them unconditionally.
1.1 deraadt 100: </ul>
101: <p>
102:
103: <li>Routing daemons and other userland network improvements:
104: <ul>
1.13 sthen 105: <li>Many improvements and simplifications in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ldpd&sektion=8">ldpd(8)</a>, including configuration reload and support for <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mpw&sektion=4">mpw(4)</a> pseudowire interfaces.
106: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgpd&sektion=8">bgpd(8)</a> now allows rules to match on the peer AS number.
107: <li>For terminated BGP sessions, <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgpctl&sektion=8">bgpctl(8)</a> now displays the number of prefixes received on the last session.
108: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ospfd&sektion=8">ospfd(8)</a> now correctly handles <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=carp&sektion=4">carp(4)</a> interfaces in "backup" mode at startup.
109: <li>Log messages in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgpd&sektion=8">bgpd(8)</a> and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ospfd&sektion=8">ospfd(8)</a> have been made more specific.
110: <li>The default Diffie-Hellman group for VPNs configured by <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec.conf&sektion=5">ipsec.conf(5)</a> has been changed to modp3072.
1.1 deraadt 111: <li>...
1.6 deraadt 112: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 113: <p>
114:
115: <li>Security improvements:
116: <ul>
1.13 sthen 117: <li>sudo has been replaced with <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=doas&sektion=1">doas(1)</a>.
118: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=file&sektion=1">file(1)</a> has been replaced with a new modern implementation, including sandbox and privilege separation.
119: <li>... <!-- talk about improved W^X / i386 PAE -->
1.1 deraadt 120: </ul>
121: <p>
122:
123: <li>Assorted improvements:
124: <ul>
1.11 tedu 125: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=worm&sektion=6">worm(6)</a>
126: now grows at a rate proportional to terminal size.
1.21 guenther 127: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dlfcn&sektion=3">dlclose(3)</a> now unregisters handlers registered by a <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pthread_atfork&sektion=3">pthread_atfork(3)</a> call from the unloaded libraries.
128: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cp&sektion=1">cp(1)</a>, <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mv&sektion=1">mv(1)</a>, and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pax&sektion=1">pax(1)</a> with the <tt>-rw</tt> option now preserve timestamps with full nanosecond precision.
129: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pax&sektion=1">pax(1)</a> (and tar(1) and cpio(1)) now prevent archive extraction from escaping the current directory via symlinks; <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tar&sektion=1">tar(1)</a> without <tt>-P</tt> option now strips up through any "<tt>..</tt>" path components.
130: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pax&sektion=1">pax(1)</a> now detects failure to decompress an archive when reading it and errors out immediately.
131: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nm&sektion=1">nm(1)</a> now supports the <tt>-D</tt> option for displaying the dynamic symbol table.
132: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dump&sektion=8">dump(8)</a> now uses DUIDs in <tt>/etc/dumpdates</tt> when present and the <tt>-U</tt> option has thus been removed.
133: <li>Corrected <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=kdump&sektion=1">kdump(1)</a> reporting of <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=lseek&sektion=2">lseek(2)</a> return value on ILP32 archs and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=getsockopt&sektion=2">getsockopt/setsockopt(2)</a> level and optname arguments. <tt>iovec</tt>, <tt>msghdr</tt>, and <tt>cmsghdr</tt> structures are now dumped.
134: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sed&sektion=1">sed(1)</a> <tt>-i</tt> option added.
135: <li>Improvements in checking of numeric option values in <b>many</b> utilities.
1.22 ! guenther 136: <li>Upgraded to binutils version 2.17 with additional fixes.
! 137: <li>Static PIE support for sparc.
! 138: <li>Alpha switched to secure PLT.
1.1 deraadt 139: <li>...
140: </ul>
141: <p>
142:
143: <li>OpenBSD <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=httpd&sektion=8">httpd(8)</a>:
144: <ul>
145: <li>...
146: </ul>
147: <p>
148:
149: <li>OpenSMTPD X.X.X
150: <ul>
151: <li>...
152: </ul>
153: <p>
154:
1.15 sobrado 155: <li>OpenSSH 7.0
1.1 deraadt 156: <ul>
1.15 sobrado 157: <li>Security:
158: <ul>
159: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
160: OpenSSH 6.8 and 6.9 incorrectly set TTYs to be world-writable.
161: Local attackers may be able to write arbitrary messages to logged-in
162: users, including terminal escape sequences.
163: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
164: fix circumvention of <tt>MaxAuthTries</tt> using keyboard-interactive
165: authentication. By specifying a long, repeating keyboard-interactive
166: "devices" string, an attacker could request the same authentication
167: method be tried thousands of times in a single pass. The
168: <tt>LoginGraceTime</tt> timeout in
169: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>
170: and any authentication failure delays implemented by the authentication
171: mechanism itself were still applied.
172: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 173: <li>Potentially-incompatible changes:
174: <ul>
1.15 sobrado 175: <li>Support for the legacy <i>SSH version 1 protocol</i> is disabled by
176: default at compile time.
177: <li>Support for the 1024-bit diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 key exchange
178: is disabled by default at run-time. It may be re-enabled using
179: the instructions at <tt>http://www.openssh.com/legacy.html</tt>.
180: <li>Support for <tt>ssh-dss</tt>, <tt>ssh-dss-cert-*</tt> <i>host</i>
181: and <i>user</i> keys is disabled by default at run-time. These may
182: be re-enabled using the instructions at
183: <tt>http://www.openssh.com/legacy.html</tt>.
184: <li>Support for the legacy <i>v00 cert format</i> has been removed.
185: <li>The default for the
186: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd_config&sektion=5">sshd_config(5)</a>
187: <tt>PermitRootLogin</tt> option has changed from "yes" to
188: "without-password".
1.1 deraadt 189: </ul>
190: <li>New/changed features:
191: <ul>
1.16 sobrado 192: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh_config&sektion=5">ssh_config(5)</a>:
1.15 sobrado 193: add <tt>PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes</tt> option to control which public
194: key types are available for user authentication.
195: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd_config&sektion=5">sshd_config(5)</a>:
196: add <tt>HostKeyAlgorithms</tt> option to control which public key
197: types are offered for host authentications.
198: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>,
199: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
200: extend <tt>Ciphers</tt>, <tt>MACs</tt>, <tt>KexAlgorithms</tt>,
201: <tt>HostKeyAlgorithms</tt>, <tt>PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes</tt> and
202: <tt>HostbasedKeyTypes</tt> options to allow appending to the default
203: set of algorithms instead of replacing it. Options may now be
204: prefixed with a <tt>+</tt> to append to the default, e.g.
205: "<tt>HostKeyAlgorithms=+ssh-dss</tt>".
1.1 deraadt 206: </ul>
207: <li>The following significant bugs have been fixed in this release:
208: <ul>
1.15 sobrado 209: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>,
210: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
211: add compatability workarounds for Cisco and more PuTTY versions.
212: (bz#2424)
213: <li>Fix some omissions and errors in the <tt>PROTOCOL</tt> and
214: <tt>PROTCOL.mux</tt> documentation relating to <i>Unix domain
215: socket</i> forwarding. (bz#2421, bz#2422)
216: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>:
217: Improve the
218: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>
219: manual page to include a better desciption of Unix domain socket
220: forwarding. (bz#2423)
221: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>,
222: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent&sektion=1">ssh-agent(1)</a>:
223: skip uninitialised PKCS#11 slots, fixing failures to load keys when
224: they are present. (bz#2427)
225: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh&sektion=1">ssh(1)</a>,
226: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssh-agent&sektion=1">ssh-agent(1)</a>:
227: do not ignore PKCS#11 hosted keys that wth empty <tt>CKA_ID</tt>.
228: (bz#2429)
229: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>:
230: clarify documentation for <tt>UseDNS</tt> option. (bz#2045)
1.1 deraadt 231: </ul>
232: </ul>
233: <p>
234:
235: <li>LibreSSL
236: <ul>
237: <li>User-visible features:
238: <ul>
1.14 sobrado 239: <li>Switched <tt>openssl dhparam</tt> default from 512 to 2048 bits.
240: <li>More <i>CRYPTO ByteString</i> (CBS) packet parsing conversions.
241: <li>Fixed <tt>openssl pkeyutl -verify</tt> to exit with a 0 on success.
242: <li>Fixed dozens of Coverity issues including dead code, memory leaks,
243: logic errors and more.
244: <li>Ensure that
245: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=openssl&sektion=1">openssl(1)</a>
246: restores terminal echo state after reading a password.
247: <li>Incorporated fix for OpenSSL Issue #3683.
248: <li>Removed SSLv3 support from
249: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=openssl&sektion=1">openssl(1)</a>.
250: <li>Modified <tt>tls_write</tt> in <tt>libtls</tt> to allow partial
251: writes, clarified with examples in the documentation.
252: <li>Removed RSAX engine.
1.16 sobrado 253: <li>Tested SSLv3 removal with the OpenBSD ports tree and found several
254: applications that were not ready to build without SSLv3 yet.
255: For now, building a program that intentionally uses SSLv3 will
256: result in a linker warning.
1.14 sobrado 257: <li>Added <tt>TLS_method</tt>, <tt>TLS_client_method</tt> and
258: <tt>TLS_server_method</tt> as a replacement for the
259: <tt>SSLv23_*method</tt> calls.
260: <li>Default <tt>cert.pem</tt>, <tt>openssl.cnf</tt>, and
261: <tt>x509v3.cnf</tt> files are now installed under
262: <tt>$sysconfdir/ssl</tt> or the directory specified by
263: <tt>--with-openssldir</tt>. Previous versions of LibreSSL left
264: these empty.
1.1 deraadt 265: </ul>
266: <li>Code improvements:
267: <ul>
1.14 sobrado 268: <li>Reworked
269: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=openssl&sektion=1">openssl(1)</a>
270: option handling.
271: <li>LibreSSL version define <tt>LIBRESSL_VERSION_NUMBER</tt> will now
272: be bumped for each portable release.
273: <li>Removed workarounds for TLS client padding bugs.
274: <li>Removed IE 6 SSLv3 workarounds.
275: <li><tt>--with-enginesdir</tt> is removed as a configuration parameter.
1.1 deraadt 276: </ul>
277: </ul>
278: <p>
279: <li>mandoc X.X.X
280: <ul>
1.21 guenther 281: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=man&sektion=1">man(1)</a> functionality is now built-in.
1.1 deraadt 282: <li>...
283: </ul>
284:
285: <p>
286: <li>Syslogd:
287: <ul>
1.4 bluhm 288: <li>OpenBSD
289: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=syslogd&sektion=8">syslogd(8)</a>
290: can bind to explicitly given UDP or TCP sockets to receive messages.
291: TCP streams are accepted with the octet counting or the non
292: transparent framing method.
293: <li>Blocks in
294: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=syslog.conf&se
295: ktion=5">syslog.conf(5)</a>
296: started with <code>+host</code> process messages created by
297: certain hosts specifically.
298: <li>Handle situations when the file descriptor limit is exhausted
299: gracefully.
300: <li>Since libtls handles short writes smarter, syslogd can use the
1.12 tedu 301: complete output buffer to save messages, coping with
302: longer TLS server down times without losing messages.
1.1 deraadt 303: </ul>
304: <p>
305: <li>Ports and packages:
306: <ul>
307: <li>Over X,XXX ports.
308: </ul>
309: <p>
310: <li>Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
311: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
312: <tr>
313: <td valign="top" width="25%">
314: <ul>
1.13 sthen 315: <li>i386: 8839
1.1 deraadt 316: <li>sparc64: XXXX
317: <li>alpha: XXXX
318: <li>sh: XXXX
319: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
320: <li>amd64: XXXX
321: <li>powerpc: XXXX
322: <li>m88k: XXXX
323: <li>sparc: XXXX
324: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
325: <li>arm: XXXX
326: <li>hppa: XXXX
327: <li>vax: XXXX
328: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
329: <li>mips64: XXXX
330: <li>mips64el: XXXX
331: </ul></td></tr></table>
332: <p>
333:
334: <li>Some highlights:
335: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
336: <tr>
337: <td valign="top" width="33%"><ul>
1.10 lteo 338: <li>Chromium 44.0.2403.125
339: <li>Emacs 21.4 and 24.5
340: <li>GCC 4.8.4 and 4.9.3
1.1 deraadt 341: <li>GHC 7.8.4
1.10 lteo 342: <li>GNOME 3.16.2
343: <li>Go 1.4.2
1.1 deraadt 344: <li>Groff 1.22.3
1.10 lteo 345: <li>JDK 1.7.0.80 and 1.8.0.45
1.1 deraadt 346: <li>KDE 3.5.10 and 4.14.3
347: <li>LLVM/Clang 3.5 (20140228)
1.10 lteo 348: <li>LibreOffice 4.4.4.3
349: <li>MariaDB 10.0.20
350: <li>Mono 3.12.1
1.18 landry 351: <li>Mozilla Firefox 38.1.1esr and 39.0.3
1.10 lteo 352: <li>Mozilla Thunderbird 38.1.0
1.1 deraadt 353: </ul></td><td valign=top width="33%"><ul>
354: <li>Node.js 0.10.35
1.10 lteo 355: <li>OpenLDAP 2.3.43 and 2.4.41
356: <li>PHP 5.4.43, 5.5.27 and 5.6.11
357: <li>Postfix 3.0.2
358: <li>PostgreSQL 9.4.4
359: <li>Python 2.7.10 and 3.4.3
360: <li>R 3.2.1
361: <li>Ruby 1.8.7.374, 1.9.3.551, 2.0.0.645, 2.1.6, and 2.2.2
362: <li>Sendmail 8.15.2
363: <li>Sudo 1.8.14.3
1.9 stu 364: <li>Tcl/Tk 8.5.18 and 8.6.4
1.10 lteo 365: <li>TeX Live 2014
366: <li>Vim 7.4.769
367: <li>Xfce 4.12
1.1 deraadt 368: </ul></td><td valign=top width="34%">
369: </td></tr></table>
370: <p>
371:
372: <li>As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
373: <p>
374:
375: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
376: <ul>
377: <li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.7 with xserver 1.16.4 + patches,
1.8 matthieu 378: freetype 2.6, fontconfig 2.11.1, Mesa 10.2.9, xterm 314,
379: xkeyboard-config 2.14 and more)
1.1 deraadt 380: <li>Gcc 4.2.1 (+ patches) and 3.3.6 (+ patches)
1.8 matthieu 381: <li>Perl 5.20.2 (+ patches)
382: <li>SQLite 3.8.9 (+ patches)
383: <li>NSD 4.1.3
384: <li>Unbound 1.5.4
1.1 deraadt 385: <li>Ncurses 5.7
1.8 matthieu 386: <li>Binutils 2.17 (+ patches)
1.1 deraadt 387: <li>Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
388: <li>Less 458 (+ patches)
389: <li>Awk Aug 10, 2011 version
390: </ul>
391:
392: </ul>
393:
394: <a name="install"></a>
395: <hr>
396: <p>
397: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to install</font></h3>
398: <p>
399: Following this are the instructions which you would have on a piece of
400: paper if you had purchased a CDROM set instead of doing an alternate
401: form of install. The instructions for doing an HTTP (or other style
402: of) install are very similar; the CDROM instructions are left intact
403: so that you can see how much easier it would have been if you had
404: purchased a CDROM instead.
405: <p>
406:
407: <hr>
408: Please refer to the following files on the three CDROMs or mirror site for
409: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 5.8 on your machine:
410: <p>
411: <ul>
412: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.8/hppa/INSTALL.alpha">
413: .../OpenBSD/5.8/alpha/INSTALL.alpha (on CD1)</a>
414: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.8/i386/INSTALL.i386">
415: .../OpenBSD/5.8/i386/INSTALL.i386 (on CD1)</a>
416: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.8/hppa/INSTALL.hppa">
417: .../OpenBSD/5.8/hppa/INSTALL.hppa (on CD1)</a>
418: <p>
419: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.8/amd64/INSTALL.amd64">
420: .../OpenBSD/5.8/amd64/INSTALL.amd64 (on CD2)</a>
421: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.8/macppc/INSTALL.macppc">
422: .../OpenBSD/5.8/macppc/INSTALL.macppc (on CD2)</a>
423: <p>
424: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.8/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64">
425: .../OpenBSD/5.8/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64 (on CD3)</a>
426: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.8/sparc/INSTALL.sparc">
427: .../OpenBSD/5.8/sparc/INSTALL.sparc (on CD3)</a>
428: <p>
429: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.8/alpha/INSTALL.alpha">
430: .../OpenBSD/5.8/alpha/INSTALL.alpha</a>
431: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.8/armish/INSTALL.armish">
432: .../OpenBSD/5.8/armish/INSTALL.armish</a>
433: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.8/aviion/INSTALL.aviion">
434: .../OpenBSD/5.8/aviion/INSTALL.aviion</a>
435: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.8/hppa/INSTALL.hppa">
436: .../OpenBSD/5.8/hppa/INSTALL.hppa</a>
437: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.8/landisk/INSTALL.landisk">
438: .../OpenBSD/5.8/landisk/INSTALL.landisk</a>
439: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.8/loongson/INSTALL.loongson">
440: .../OpenBSD/5.8/loongson/INSTALL.loongson</a>
441: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.8/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k">
442: .../OpenBSD/5.8/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k</a>
443: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.8/macppc/INSTALL.macppc">
444: .../OpenBSD/5.8/macppc/INSTALL.macppc</a>
445: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.8/octeon/INSTALL.octeon">
446: .../OpenBSD/5.8/octeon/INSTALL.octeon</a>
447: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.8/sgi/INSTALL.sgi">
448: .../OpenBSD/5.8/sgi/INSTALL.sgi</a>
449: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.8/socppc/INSTALL.socppc">
450: .../OpenBSD/5.8/socppc/INSTALL.socppc</a>
451: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.8/sparc/INSTALL.sparc">
452: .../OpenBSD/5.8/sparc/INSTALL.sparc</a>
453: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.8/vax/INSTALL.vax">
454: .../OpenBSD/5.8/vax/INSTALL.vax</a>
455: <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.8/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus">
456: .../OpenBSD/5.8/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus</a>
457: </ul>
458: <hr>
459:
460: <p>
461: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the
462: use of the "disklabel -E" command. If you are at all confused when
463: installing OpenBSD, read the relevant INSTALL.* file as listed above!
464: <p>
465:
466: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/i386:</font></h3>
467: <ul>
468: The OpenBSD/i386 release is on CD1.
469: Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
470: your BIOS options first.
471:
472: <p>
473: If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install58.fs</i> or
474: <i>miniroot58.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
475:
476: <p>
477: If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
478: you can install across the network using PXE as described in
479: the included INSTALL.i386 document.
480:
481: <p>
482: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
483: read INSTALL.i386.
484:
485: </ul>
486:
487: <p>
488: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/amd64:</font></h3>
489: <ul>
490: The OpenBSD/amd64 release is on CD2.
491: Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
492: your BIOS options first.
493:
494: <p>
495: If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install58.fs</i> or
496: <i>miniroot58.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
497:
498: <p>
499: If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
500: you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
501: INSTALL.amd64 document.
502:
503: <p>
504: If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
505: read INSTALL.amd64.
506: </ul>
507:
508: <p>
509: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/macppc:</font></h3>
510: <ul>
511: Burn the image from a mirror site to a CDROM, and power on your machine
512: while holding down the <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and
513: shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
514:
515: <p>
516: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
517: /5.8/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>CD3:5.8/sparc64/floppy58.fs</i> or <i>CD3:5.8/sparc64/floppyB58.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>CD3:5.8/sparc64/miniroot58.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:5.8/alpha/floppy58.fs</i> or
547: <i>FTP:5.8/alpha/floppyB58.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/hppa:</font></h3>
571: <ul>
572: <p>
573: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
574: <a href="hppa.html#install">hppa platform page</a>.
575: </ul>
576:
577: <p>
578: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/landisk:</font></h3>
579: <ul>
580: <p>
581: Write <i>miniroot58.fs</i> to the start of the CF
582: or disk, and boot normally.
583: </ul>
584:
585: <p>
586: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/loongson:</font></h3>
587: <ul>
588: <p>
589: Write <i>miniroot58.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot bsd.rd from it
590: or boot bsd.rd via tftp.
591: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.loongson for more details.
592: </ul>
593: <p>
594:
595: <p>
596: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/luna88k:</font></h3>
597: <ul>
598: <p>
599: Copy `boot' and `bsd.rd' to a Mach or UniOS partition, and boot the bootloader
600: from the PROM, and the bsd.rd from the bootloader.
601: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.luna88k for more details.
602: </ul>
603:
604: <p>
605: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/octeon:</font></h3>
606: <ul>
607: <p>
608: After connecting a serial port, boot bsd.rd over the network via DHCP/tftp.
609: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.octeon for more details.
610: </ul>
611:
612: <p>
613: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sgi:</font></h3>
614: <ul>
615: <p>
616: To install, burn cd58.iso on a CD-R, put it in the CD drive of your
617: machine and select <i>Install System Software</i> from the System Maintenance
618: menu. Indigo/Indy/Indigo2 (R4000) systems will not boot automatically from
619: CD-ROM, and need a proper invocation from the PROM prompt.
620: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
621:
622: <p>
623: If your machine doesn't have a CD drive, you can setup a DHCP/tftp network
624: server, and boot using "bootp()/bsd.rd.IP##" using the kernel matching your
625: system type. Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
626: </ul>
627:
628: <p>
629: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/socppc:</font></h3>
630: <ul>
631: <p>
632: After connecting a serial port, boot over the network via DHCP/tftp.
633: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.socppc for more details.
634: </ul>
635:
636: <p>
637: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc:</font></h3>
638: <ul>
639: Boot from one of the provided install ISO images, using one of the two
640: commands listed below, depending on the version of your ROM.
641:
642: <ul><pre>
643: ok <strong>boot cdrom 5.8/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
644: or
645: > <strong>b sd(0,6,0)5.8/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
646: </pre></ul>
647:
648: <p>
649: If your SPARC system does not have a CD drive, you can alternatively boot from floppy.
650: To do so you need to write <i>floppy58.fs</i> to a floppy.
651: For more information see <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ 4.3.2</a>.
652: To boot from the floppy use one of the two commands listed below,
653: depending on the version of your ROM.
654:
655: <ul><pre>
656: ok <strong>boot floppy</strong>
657: or
658: > <strong>b fd()</strong>
659: </pre></ul>
660:
661: <p>
662: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
663: will most likely fail.
664:
665: <p>
666: If your SPARC system doesn't have a floppy drive nor a CD drive, you can either
667: setup a bootable tape, or install via network, as told in the
668: INSTALL.sparc file.
669: </ul>
670:
671: <p>
672: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/vax:</font></h3>
673: <ul>
674: Boot over the network via mopbooting as described in INSTALL.vax.
675: </ul>
676:
677: <p>
678: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/zaurus:</font></h3>
679: <ul>
680: <p>
681: Using the Linux built-in graphical ipkg installer, install the
682: openbsd58_arm.ipk package. Reboot, then run it. Read INSTALL.zaurus
683: for a few important details.
684: </ul>
685:
686: <a name="upgrade"></a>
687: <hr>
688: <p>
689: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to upgrade</font></h3>
690: <p>
1.2 deraadt 691: If you already have an OpenBSD 5.7 system, and do not want to reinstall,
1.1 deraadt 692: upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
693: <a href="faq/upgrade58.html">Upgrade Guide</a>.
694:
695: <a name="sourcecode"></a>
696: <hr>
697: <p>
698: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Notes about the source code</font></h3>
699: <p>
700: src.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src. This file
701: contains everything you need except for the kernel sources, which are
702: in a separate archive. To extract:
703: <p>
704: <ul><pre>
705: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src</strong>
706: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
707: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</strong>
708: </pre></ul>
709: <p>
710: sys.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src/sys.
711: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
712: To extract:
713: <p>
714: <ul><pre>
715: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</strong>
716: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
717: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</strong>
718: </pre></ul>
719: <p>
720: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout. Using these trees it
721: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
722: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
723: Using these files
724: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
725: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
726: <p>
727:
728: <a name="ports"></a>
729: <hr>
730: <p>
731: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Ports Tree</font></h3>
732: <p>
733: A ports tree archive is also provided. To extract:
734: <p>
735: <ul><pre>
736: # <strong>cd /usr</strong>
737: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</strong>
738: </pre></ul>
739: <p>
740: Go read the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">ports</a> page
741: if you know nothing about ports
742: at this point. This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
743: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
744: OpenBSD ports system.
745: <p>
746: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS (see the manpage for
747: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cvs&sektion=1&arch=i386">
748: cvs(1)</a> if
749: you aren't familiar with CVS) checkout of our ports. As with our complete
750: source tree, our ports tree is available via
751: <a href="anoncvs.html">AnonCVS</a>.
752: So, in order to keep up to date with the <i>-stable</i> branch, you must make
753: the <i>ports/</i> tree available on a read-write medium and update the tree
754: with a command like:
755: <p>
756: <ul><pre>
757: # <strong>cd /usr/ports</strong>
1.2 deraadt 758: # <strong>cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_5_8</strong>
1.1 deraadt 759: </pre></ul>
760: <p>
761: [Of course, you must replace the server name here with a nearby anoncvs
762: server.]
763: <p>
764: Note that most ports are available as packages on our mirrors. Updated
765: ports for the 5.8 release will be made available if problems arise.
766: <p>
767: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
768: would like to know more, the mailing list
769: <a href="mail.html">ports@openbsd.org</a> is a good place to know.
770: <p>
771: </body>
772: </html>
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