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17: <i><font color="#0000ff">Open</font></i><font color="#000084">BSD</font></a>
18: <font color="#e00000">6.4</font>
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23: Released Nov 1, 2018<br>
24: Copyright 1997-2018, Theo de Raadt.<br>
25: <br>
26: <br>
27: 6.4 Song: Maybe...
28:
29: <br>
30: <ul>
31: <li>See the information on <a href="ftp.html">the FTP page</a> for
32: a list of mirror machines.
33: <li>Go to the <font color="#e00000">pub/OpenBSD/6.4/</font> directory on
34: one of the mirror sites.
35: <li>Have a look at <a href="errata64.html">the 6.4 errata page</a> for a list
36: of bugs and workarounds.
37: <li>See a <a href="plus64.html">detailed log of changes</a> between the
38: 6.3 and 6.4 releases.
39: <p>
40: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/signify.1">signify(1)</a>
41: pubkeys for this release:<br>
42: <pre>
43: base: RWQq6XmS4eDAcQW4KsT5Ka0KwTQp2JMOP9V/DR4HTVOL5Bc0D7LeuPwA
44: fw: RWRoBbjnosJ/39llpve1XaNIrrQND4knG+jSBeIUYU8x4WNkxz6a2K97
45: pkg: RWRF5TTY+LoN/51QD5kM2hKDtMTzycQBBPmPYhyQEb1+4pff/H6fh/kA
46: </pre>
47: <p>
48: All applicable copyrights and credits are in the src.tar.gz,
49: sys.tar.gz, xenocara.tar.gz, ports.tar.gz files, or in the
50: files fetched via ports.tar.gz.
51: </ul>
52: <br clear=all>
53:
54: <hr>
55:
56: <h3 id="new"><font color="#0000e0">What's New</font></h3>
57:
58: This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 6.4.
59: <!-- XXX worth keeping this line? -->For a comprehensive list, see the <a href="plus64.html">changelog</a> leading
60: to 6.4.
61:
62: <ul>
63:
64: <li>Improved hardware support, including:
65: <ul>
1.35 ! kettenis 66: <li>ACPI support on OpenBSD/arm64 platforms.
! 67: <li>Support for
! 68: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/radeondrm.4">radeondrm(4)</a>
! 69: on OpenBSD/arm64 platforms.
1.3 jcs 70: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/umt.4">umt(4)</a> driver
71: for USB Windows Precision Touchpad devices.
1.22 schwarze 72: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bnxt.4">bnxt(4)</a>
73: driver for Broadcom NetXtreme-C/E PCI Express Ethernet
1.23 ccardena 74: adapters based on the Broadcom BCM573xx and BCM574xx chipsets. Enabled
75: on amd64 and arm64 platforms.
1.22 schwarze 76: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mue.4">mue(4)</a>
77: driver for Microchip LAN7500/LAN7505/LAN7515/LAN7850 USB 2.0
78: and LAN7800/LAN7801 USB 3.0 Gigabit Ethernet devices.
79: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/acpisurface.4">acpisurface(4)</a>
80: driver providing ACPI support for Microsoft Surface Book laptops.
1.35 ! kettenis 81: <li>New
! 82: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/agintcmsi.4">agintcmsi(4/arm64)</a>
! 83: driver for the ITS component of the ARM GIC.
1.22 schwarze 84: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dwpcie.4">dwpcie(4)</a>
85: driver for the Synopsys Designware PCIe controller,
86: which is built into various SoCs.
87: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/acpipci.4">acpipci(4/arm64)</a>
88: driver providing support for PCI host bridges
89: based on information provided by ACPI.
90: <li>New
91: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mvclock.4">mvclock(4)</a>,
92: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mvgpio.4">mvgpio(4)</a>,
93: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mvicu.4">mvicu(4)</a>,
94: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mvrng.4">mvrng(4)</a>,
95: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mvrtc.4">mvrtc(4)</a>, and
96: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mvtemp.4">mvtemp(4)</a>
97: drivers for various components of the Marvell Armada SoCs.
98: <li>New
99: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/hiclock.4">hiclock(4)</a>,
100: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/hidwusb.4">hidwusb(4)</a>,
101: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/hireset.4">hireset(4)</a>, and
102: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/hitemp.4">hitemp(4)</a>
103: drivers for various components of the HiSilicon SoCs.
104: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ccp.4">ccp(4)</a> and
105: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/octcrypto.4">octcrypto(4/octeon)</a>
106: drivers for hardware-accelerated cryptography.
107: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ccpmic.4">ccpmic(4)</a> and
108: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/tipmic.4">tipmic(4)</a>
109: drivers for Intel Crystal Cove and Dollar Cove
110: TI Power Management ICs.
111: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/imxrtc.4">imxrtc(4)</a>
112: driver for the RTC integrated in Freescale i.MX7 and i.MX8 processors.
113: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/fanpwr.4">fanpwr(4)</a>
114: driver for the Fairchild FAN53555 and Silergy SYR827/828
115: voltage regulators.
116: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pinctrl.4">pinctrl(4)</a>
117: driver for generic pin multiplexing.
118: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/plgpio.4">plgpio(4)</a>
119: driver for the ARM PrimeCell PL061 GPIO controller.
1.21 schwarze 120: <li>PIE support for the m88k platform.
1.28 jcs 121: <li>Support for some HID-over-I<sup>2</sup>C touchscreen devices in
122: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/imt.4">imt(4)</a>.
1.29 jmatthew 123: <li>Support for RTL8188EE and RTL8723AE in
124: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rtwn.4">rtwn(4)</a>.
1.30 kevlo 125: <li>Support for RT3290 in
126: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ral.4">ral(4)</a>.
1.29 jmatthew 127: <li>Support for SAS 3.5 controllers (SAS34xx and SAS35xx) in
128: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mpii.4">mpii(4)</a>.
129: <li>Support for drive and battery status sensors and bio in
130: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mfii.4">mfii(4)</a>.
1.1 benno 131: </ul>
132:
133: <p>
134: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/amd64/vmm.4">vmm(4)</a>/
135: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/amd64/vmd.8">vmd(8)</a> improvements:
136: <ul>
137: <li>Support for qcow2 disk images.
1.23 ccardena 138: <li>Added initial <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/unveil.2">unveil(2)</a>
139: support to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/amd64/vmctl.8">vmctl(8)</a>
140: along with general cleanups.
1.1 benno 141: </ul>
142: <p>
143:
144: <li>IEEE 802.11 wireless stack improvements:
145: <ul>
146: <li>With the new 'auto-join' feature, the kernel manages automatic switching
147: between different wifi networks.
148: </ul>
149: <p>
150:
151: <li>Generic network stack improvements:
152: <ul>
1.23 ccardena 153: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/amd64/trunk.4">trunk(4)</a>
154: now has LACP administrative knobs for: mode, timeout, system priority,
155: port priority, and ifq priority.
156: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/amd64/ifconfig.8">ifconfig(8)</a>
157: now has the ability to adjust LACP administrative knobs:
158: <code>lacpmode</code> and <code>lacptimeout</code>.
1.1 benno 159: </ul>
160: <p>
161:
162: <li>Installer improvements:
163: <ul>
164: <li>
165: </ul>
166: <p>
167:
1.33 claudio 168: <li>Security improvements:
169: <ul>
170: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/unveil.2">unveil(2)</a>
171: system call to restrict file system access of the calling
172: process to the specified files and directories. It is most
173: powerful when properly combined with privilege separation
174: and <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pledge.2">pledge(2)</a>.
175: <li>New "retguard" security mechanism on amd64 and arm64:
176: use per-function random cookies to protect access to function
177: return instructions, making them harder to use in ROP gadgets.
178: <li>Simultaneous multithreading (SMT) is now disabled by default
179: and can be enabled with the new <code>hw.smt</code>
180: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sysctl.2">sysctl(2)</a> variable.
181: <li>Audio recording is now disabled by default and can be enabled
182: with the new <code>kern.audio.record</code>
183: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sysctl.2">sysctl(2)</a> variable.
184: </ul>
185: <p>
186:
1.1 benno 187: <li>Routing daemons and other userland network improvements:
188: <ul>
189: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ospf6d.8">ospf6d(8)</a> can now
190: redistribute routes depending on carp(4) interface states.
1.2 benno 191: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ospf6d.8">ospf6d(8)</a> is
192: now pledged.
193: <li>Prevent ospfd(8) and ospf6d(8) to be started more than once
194: (in the same routing domain).
1.11 florian 195: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/slaacd.8">slaacd(8)</a> is now fully
196: pledged.
197: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/slaacd.8">slaacd(8)</a> is informed by
198: the kernel when Duplicate Address Detection (DAD) fails and generates
199: different addresses when possible.
200: <li>When <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/slaacd.8">slaacd(8)</a> detects
201: roaming between networks it deprecates all configured IPs. IPs from
202: newly advertised prefixes will the preferred.
203: <li>A new daemon, <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rad.8">rad(8)</a> sends
204: IPv6 Router Advertisement messages and replaces the old rtadvd(8)
205: daemon from KAME.
1.16 schwarze 206: <li>The anachronistic
207: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-6.3/networks.5">networks(5)</a>
208: configuration file is no longer supported.
1.17 kn 209: <li>More robust <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pfctl.8">pfctl(8)</a>
210: parsing routines and corner case fixes around table and anchor
211: handling.
212: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/route.8">route(8)</a> now errors out
213: on bad <tt>-netmask/-prefixlen</tt> usage instead of configuring
214: ambigious routes.
1.1 benno 215: </ul>
216: <p>
217:
218: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bgpd.8">bgpd(8)</a> improvements:
219: <ul>
1.32 claudio 220: <li>The default filter actions was changed from allow to deny.
221: <li>The config option 'announce (all|self|none|default-route)'
222: has been deprecated and superseded by filter configuration.
223: <li>Improved prefix-sets both in speed and user experience.
224: <li>Introduced as-sets to match ASPATH against large lists of AS numbers.
225: <li>Support for BGP Origin Validation
226: <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6811">RFC 6811</a>
227: through the <code>roa-set</code> directive.
228: <li>Added origin-sets for matching prefix / origin AS pairs efficently.
229: <li>Some syntax cleanups; newlines are optional inside expansion
230: lists (previously newlines needed to be escaped), but in neighbor,
231: group and rdomain blocks multiple statements have to be on new lines.
232: <li>Reduce the amount of work done during a configuration reload.
233: <li>Make config reload not block other event handling in the
234: route decision engine.
235: <li>Better support and bugfixes for multiple bgpd processes
236: running in different rdomains
1.1 benno 237: </ul>
238: <p>
239:
240: <li>Assorted improvements:
241: <ul>
1.27 jcs 242: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rasops.9">rasops(9)</a>-backed
1.3 jcs 243: framebuffer consoles such as
244: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/inteldrm.4">inteldrm(4)</a> and
245: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/efifb.4">efifb(4)</a> now support
246: scrollback.
1.7 anton 247: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rebound.8">rebound(8)</a>
248: gained support for permanent A records, similiar to
249: <tt>local-data</tt>
250: supported by
251: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/unbound.8">unbound(8)</a>.
252: <li>New
253: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/kcov.4">kcov(4)</a>
254: driver used for collection of code coverage inside the kernel.
255: It's used in an ongoing effort to fuzz the kernel.
1.16 schwarze 256: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/uid_from_user.3">uid_from_user(3)</a>
257: and
258: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/gid_from_group.3">gid_from_group(3)</a>
259: were added to the C library and are now used in several programs,
260: to speed up repeated lookups.
1.21 schwarze 261: <li>New semaphore implementation making
262: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sem_post.3">sem_post(3)</a>
263: async-safe.
264: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pcap_set_immediate_mode.3"
265: >pcap_set_immediate_mode(3)</a> was imported from mainline libpcap,
266: allowing programs to process packets as soon as they arrive.
1.16 schwarze 267: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ksh.1">ksh(1)</a> now supports
268: 64 bit integers on all architectures.
1.7 anton 269: <li>A bug in
270: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/ksh.1">ksh(1)</a>
271: related to variable expansion of read-only varibles has been fixed.
1.14 schwarze 272: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/lam.1">lam(1)</a>
273: now provides UTF-8 support.
1.23 ccardena 274: <li>Enable <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/trunk.4">trunk(4)</a> and
275: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/vlan.4">vlan(4)</a> on arm64 RAMDISK.
1.34 bluhm 276: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pf.4">pf(4)</a> IP fragment
277: reassembly uses a better algorithm to make it robust against
278: denial of service attacks.
1.1 benno 279: </ul>
280: <p>
281:
282: <li>OpenSMTPD x.x.x
283: <ul>
1.19 schwarze 284: <li>Incompatible change to the
285: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/smtpd.conf.5">smtpd.conf(5)</a>
286: grammar: separate envelope matching, which happens during the
287: SMTP dialogue while receiving a message and merely results
288: in assigning an action name, from delivery actions, which do
289: not take effect until the queue runner makes a delivery attempt.
290: This gets rid of several different roadblocks in OpenSMTPD
291: development.
292: <li> ...
1.1 benno 293: </ul>
294: <p>
295:
296: <li>OpenSSH 7.8
297: <ul>
298: <li>New/changed features:
299: <ul>
300: <li>
301: </ul>
302: </ul>
303: <p>
304:
305: <li>LibreSSL 2.x.x
306: <ul>
307: <li>
1.14 schwarze 308: </ul>
309: <p>
310:
311: <li>Mandoc 1.14.4
312: <ul>
313: <li>In HTML output, many
314: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mdoc.7">mdoc(7)</a> macros
315: now use more fitting HTML elements.
316: <li>In HTML output, almost all "style" attributes and a number of
317: redundant "class" attributes were removed.
318: <li>Baby steps towards responsive design: use a @media query in
319: mandoc.css, use the HTML meta viewport element, and remove all
320: hard-coded widths and heights from the generated HTML code.
321: <li>Many style improvements in
322: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/mandoc.css">mandoc.css</a>.
323: <li>More than 15 new low level
324: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/roff.7">roff(7)</a>
325: and GNU man-ext features.
326: Mandoc can now format the manuals of the groff port.
1.1 benno 327: </ul>
328: <p>
329:
330: <li>Ports and packages:
331: <ul>
332: <li>
333: </ul>
334: <dl>
335: <dt>Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
336: </dl>
337: <!-- number of FTP packages minus SHA256, SHA256.sig, index.txt -->
338: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
339: <tr>
340: <td valign="top" width="25%">
341: <ul>
342: <li>aarch64:
343: <li>alpha:
344: <li>amd64:
345: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
346: <li>arm:
347: <li>i386:
348: <li>mips64:
349: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
350: <li>mips64el:
351: <li>powerpc:
352: <li>sh:
353: </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
354: <li>sparc64:
355: </ul></td></tr></table>
356: <p>
357:
358: <dl>
1.15 schwarze 359: <dt>Some highlights:
1.1 benno 360: </dl>
361: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
362: <tr>
363: <td valign="top" width="50%"><ul>
364: <li>AFL 2.52b
365: <li>CMake 3.10.2
1.6 kirby 366: <li>Chromium 69.0.3497.100
367: <li>Emacs 21.4 and 26.1
1.1 benno 368: <li>GCC 4.9.4
369: <li>GHC 8.2.2
370: <li>Gimp 2.8.22
1.15 schwarze 371: <li>GNOME 3.28.2
1.6 kirby 372: <li>Go 1.11
1.1 benno 373: <li>Groff 1.22.3
1.6 kirby 374: <li>JDK 8u172
375: <li>LLVM/Clang 6.0.1
376: <li>LibreOffice 6.1.1.2
377: <li>Lua 5.1.5, 5.2.4 and 5.3.5
378: <li>MariaDB 10.0.36
1.26 kirby 379: <li>Mono 5.14.0.177
1.31 kirby 380: <li>Mozilla Firefox 60.2.2esr and 62.0.3
381: <li>Mozilla Thunderbird 60.2.1
1.1 benno 382: </ul></td><td valign=top width="50%"><ul>
1.6 kirby 383: <li>Mutt 1.10.1 and NeoMutt 20180716
384: <li>Node.js 8.12.0
1.1 benno 385: <li>Ocaml 4.03.0
1.6 kirby 386: <li>OpenLDAP 2.3.43 and 2.4.46
387: <li>PHP 5.6.38, 7.0.32, 7.1.22 and 7.2.10
388: <li>Postfix 3.3.1 and 3.4-20180904
389: <li>PostgreSQL 10.5
390: <li>Python 2.7.15 and 3.6.6
391: <li>R 3.5.1
392: <li>Ruby 2.3.7, 2.4.4 and 2.5.1
393: <li>Rust 1.29.1
394: <li>Sendmail 8.16.0.29
395: <li>SQLite3 3.24.0
396: <li>Sudo 1.8.25
1.1 benno 397: <li>Tcl/Tk 8.5.19 and 8.6.8
398: <li>TeX Live 2017
1.10 sthen 399: <li>Vim 8.1.438
1.1 benno 400: <li>Xfce 4.12
401: </ul></td></tr></table>
402: <p>
403:
404: <li>As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
405: <p>
406:
1.15 schwarze 407: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
1.1 benno 408: <ul>
409: <li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.7 with xserver 1.19.6 + patches,
1.8 matthieu 410: freetype 2.9.1, fontconfig 2.12.4, Mesa 13.0.6, xterm 331,
1.1 benno 411: xkeyboard-config 2.20 and more)
1.8 matthieu 412: <li>LLVM/Clang 6.0.0 (+ patches)
1.1 benno 413: <li>GCC 4.2.1 (+ patches) and 3.3.6 (+ patches)
414: <li>Perl 5.24.3 (+ patches)
1.9 florian 415: <li>NSD 4.1.25
1.8 matthieu 416: <li>Unbound 1.8.0
1.1 benno 417: <li>Ncurses 5.7
418: <li>Binutils 2.17 (+ patches)
419: <li>Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
420: <li>Awk Aug 10, 2011 version
1.8 matthieu 421: <li>Expat 2.2.6
1.1 benno 422: </ul>
423: </ul>
424:
425: <hr>
426:
427: <h3 id="install"><font color="#0000e0">How to install</font></h3>
428:
429: Please refer to the following files on the mirror site for
430: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 6.4 on your machine:
431:
432: <ul>
433: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/alpha/INSTALL.alpha">
434: .../OpenBSD/6.4/alpha/INSTALL.alpha</a>
435: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/amd64/INSTALL.amd64">
436: .../OpenBSD/6.4/amd64/INSTALL.amd64</a>
437: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/arm64/INSTALL.arm64">
438: .../OpenBSD/6.4/arm64/INSTALL.arm64</a>
439: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/armv7/INSTALL.armv7">
440: .../OpenBSD/6.4/armv7/INSTALL.armv7</a>
441: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/hppa/INSTALL.hppa">
442: .../OpenBSD/6.4/hppa/INSTALL.hppa</a>
443: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/i386/INSTALL.i386">
444: .../OpenBSD/6.4/i386/INSTALL.i386</a>
445: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/landisk/INSTALL.landisk">
446: .../OpenBSD/6.4/landisk/INSTALL.landisk</a>
447: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/loongson/INSTALL.loongson">
448: .../OpenBSD/6.4/loongson/INSTALL.loongson</a>
449: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k">
450: .../OpenBSD/6.4/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k</a>
451: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/macppc/INSTALL.macppc">
452: .../OpenBSD/6.4/macppc/INSTALL.macppc</a>
453: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/octeon/INSTALL.octeon">
454: .../OpenBSD/6.4/octeon/INSTALL.octeon</a>
455: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/sgi/INSTALL.sgi">
456: .../OpenBSD/6.4/sgi/INSTALL.sgi</a>
457: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64">
458: .../OpenBSD/6.4/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64</a>
459: </ul>
460:
461: <hr>
462:
463: <p>
464: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the use of
465: the "<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel.8">disklabel</a> -E" command.
466: If you are at all confused when installing OpenBSD, read the relevant
467: INSTALL.* file as listed above!
468:
469: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/alpha:</font></h3>
470:
471: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
472: <li>
473: Write <i>floppy64.fs</i> or <i>floppyB64.fs</i> (depending on your machine)
474: to a diskette and enter <i>boot dva0</i>.
475: Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
476: <p>
477: <li>
478: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
479: will most likely fail.
480: </ul>
481:
482: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/amd64:</font></h3>
483:
484: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
485: <li>
486: If your machine can boot from CD, you can write <i>install64.iso</i> or
487: <i>cd64.iso</i> to a CD and boot from it.
488: You may need to adjust your BIOS options first.
489: <p>
490: <li>
491: If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install64.fs</i> or
492: <i>miniroot64.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
493: <p>
494: <li>
495: If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
496: you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
497: INSTALL.amd64 document.
498: <p>
499: <li>
500: If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
501: read INSTALL.amd64.
502: </ul>
503:
504: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/arm64:</font></h3>
505:
506: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
507: <li>
508: Write <i>miniroot64.fs</i> to a disk and boot from it after connecting
509: to the serial console. Refer to INSTALL.arm64 for more details.
510: <p>
511: </ul>
512:
513: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/armv7:</font></h3>
514:
515: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
516: <li>
517: Write a system specific miniroot to an SD card and boot from it after connecting
518: to the serial console. Refer to INSTALL.armv7 for more details.
519: <p>
520: </ul>
521:
522: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hppa:</font></h3>
523:
524: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
525: <li>
526: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
527: <a href="hppa.html#install">hppa platform page</a>.
528: </ul>
529:
530: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/i386:</font></h3>
531:
532: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
533: <li>
534: If your machine can boot from CD, you can write <i>install64.iso</i> or
535: <i>cd64.iso</i> to a CD and boot from it.
536: You may need to adjust your BIOS options first.
537: <p>
538: <li>
539: If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install64.fs</i> or
540: <i>miniroot64.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
541: <p>
542: <li>
543: If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
544: you can install across the network using PXE as described in
545: the included INSTALL.i386 document.
546: <p>
547: <li>
548: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
549: read INSTALL.i386.
550: </ul>
551:
552: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/landisk:</font></h3>
553:
554: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
555: <li>
556: Write <i>miniroot64.fs</i> to the start of the CF
557: or disk, and boot normally.
558: </ul>
559:
560: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/loongson:</font></h3>
561:
562: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
563: <li>
564: Write <i>miniroot64.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot bsd.rd from it
565: or boot bsd.rd via tftp.
566: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.loongson for more details.
567: </ul>
568:
569: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/luna88k:</font></h3>
570:
571: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
572: <li>
573: Copy `boot' and `bsd.rd' to a Mach or UniOS partition, and boot the bootloader
574: from the PROM, and then bsd.rd from the bootloader.
575: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.luna88k for more details.
576: </ul>
577:
578: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/macppc:</font></h3>
579:
580: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
581: <li>
582: Burn the image from a mirror site to a CDROM, and power on your machine
583: while holding down the <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and
584: shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
585: <p>
586: <li>
587: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
588: /6.4/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
589: </ul>
590:
591: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/octeon:</font></h3>
592:
593: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
594: <li>
595: After connecting a serial port, boot bsd.rd over the network via DHCP/tftp.
596: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.octeon for more details.
597: </ul>
598:
599: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sgi:</font></h3>
600:
601: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
602: <li>
603: To install, burn cd64.iso on a CD-R, put it in the CD drive of your
604: machine and select <i>Install System Software</i> from the System Maintenance
605: menu. Indigo/Indy/Indigo2 (R4000) systems will not boot automatically from
606: CD-ROM, and need a proper invocation from the PROM prompt.
607: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
608:
609: <p>
610: <li>
611: If your machine doesn't have a CD drive, you can setup a DHCP/tftp network
612: server, and boot using "bootp()/bsd.rd.IP##" using the kernel matching your
613: system type. Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
614: </ul>
615:
616: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc64:</font></h3>
617:
618: <ul style="list-style-type: none">
619: <li>
620: Burn the image from a mirror site to a CDROM, boot from it, and type
621: <i>boot cdrom</i>.
622: <p>
623: <li>
624: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
625: <i>floppy64.fs</i> or <i>floppyB64.fs</i>
626: (depending on your machine) to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
627: floppy</i>. Refer to INSTALL.sparc64 for details.
628: <p>
629: <li>
630: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
631: will most likely fail.
632: <p>
633: <li>
634: You can also write <i>miniroot64.fs</i> to the swap partition on
635: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
636: <p>
637: <li>
638: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
639: </ul>
640:
641: <hr>
642:
643: <h3 id="upgrade"><font color="#0000e0">How to upgrade</font></h3>
644:
645: If you already have an OpenBSD 6.3 system, and do not want to reinstall,
646: upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
647: <a href="faq/upgrade64.html">Upgrade Guide</a>.
648: <p>
649:
650: <hr>
651:
652: <h3 id="sourcecode"><font color="#0000e0">Notes about the source code</font></h3>
653:
654: <tt>src.tar.gz</tt> contains a source archive starting at <tt>/usr/src</tt>.
655: This file contains everything you need except for the kernel sources,
656: which are in a separate archive.
657: To extract:
658:
659: <blockquote><pre>
660: # <b>mkdir -p /usr/src</b>
661: # <b>cd /usr/src</b>
662: # <b>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</b>
663: </pre></blockquote>
664:
665: <tt>sys.tar.gz</tt> contains a source archive starting at <tt>/usr/src/sys</tt>.
666: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
667: To extract:
668:
669: <blockquote><pre>
670: # <b>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</b>
671: # <b>cd /usr/src</b>
672: # <b>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</b>
673: </pre></blockquote>
674:
675: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout. Using these trees it
676: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
677: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
678: Using these files
679: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
680: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
681: <p>
682:
683: <hr>
684:
685: <h3 id="ports"><font color="#0000e0">Ports Tree</font></h3>
686:
687: A ports tree archive is also provided. To extract:
688:
689: <blockquote><pre>
690: # <b>cd /usr</b>
691: # <b>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</b>
692: </pre></blockquote>
693:
694: Go read the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">ports</a> page
695: if you know nothing about ports
696: at this point. This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
697: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
698: OpenBSD ports system.
699: <p>
700: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS checkout of our ports.
701: As with our complete source tree, our ports tree is available via
702: <a href="anoncvs.html">AnonCVS</a>.
703: So, in order to keep up to date with the -stable branch, you must make
704: the <i>ports/</i> tree available on a read-write medium and update the tree
705: with a command like:
706:
707: <blockquote><pre>
708: # <b>cd /usr/ports</b>
709: # <b>cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_6_4</b>
710: </pre></blockquote>
711:
712: [Of course, you must replace the server name here with a nearby anoncvs
713: server.]
714: <p>
715: Note that most ports are available as packages on our mirrors. Updated
716: ports for the 6.4 release will be made available if problems arise.
717: <p>
718: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
719: would like to know more, the mailing list
720: <a href="mail.html">ports@openbsd.org</a> is a good place to know.
721: <p>
722: </body>
723: </html>
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