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                     12: <a href="index.html">
                     13: <i>Open</i><b>BSD</b></a>
                     14: 7.0
                     15: </h2>
                     16:
                     17: <table>
                     18: <tr>
                     19: <td>
                     20: <a href="images/XXX.png">
                     21: <img width="227" height="303" src="images/XXX-s.gif" alt="XXX"></a>
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1.6       deraadt    23: Released Nov 1, 2021. (51st OpenBSD release)<br>
1.1       benno      24: Copyright 1997-2021, Theo de Raadt.<br>
                     25: <br>
                     26: 7.0 Song:
                     27: <a href="lyrics.html#70">XXX</a>.
                     28: <br>
                     29: Artwork by XXX.
                     30: <br>
                     31: <ul>
                     32: <li>See the information on <a href="ftp.html">the FTP page</a> for
                     33:     a list of mirror machines.
                     34: <li>Go to the <code class=reldir>pub/OpenBSD/7.0/</code> directory on
                     35:     one of the mirror sites.
                     36: <li>Have a look at <a href="errata70.html">the 7.0 errata page</a> for a list
                     37:     of bugs and workarounds.
                     38: <li>See a <a href="plus70.html">detailed log of changes</a> between the
1.4       jsg        39:     6.9 and 7.0 releases.
1.1       benno      40: <p>
                     41: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/signify.1">signify(1)</a>
                     42:     pubkeys for this release:<p>
                     43:
                     44: <table class=signify>
                     45: <tr><td>
                     46: openbsd-70-base.pub:
                     47: <td>
                     48: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/openbsd-70-base.pub">
                     49: RWR3KL+gSr4QZ5mOvKhcOOgGe61ogHp5PyBOj2RrmyCpqchk9A7NVPzh</a>
                     50: <tr><td>
                     51: openbsd-70-fw.pub:
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                     54: <tr><td>
                     55: openbsd-70-pkg.pub:
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                     58: <tr><td>
                     59: openbsd-70-syspatch.pub:
1.11    ! deraadt    60: <td>
1.1       benno      61: RWSD33kMDKsQH8j0Q8FzfYk+vsgTKiP8Q5DcrkQQtrZoWg48yxUQgLxU
                     62: </table>
                     63: </ul>
                     64: <p>
                     65: All applicable copyrights and credits are in the src.tar.gz,
                     66: sys.tar.gz, xenocara.tar.gz, ports.tar.gz files, or in the
                     67: files fetched via <code>ports.tar.gz</code>.
                     68: </table>
                     69:
                     70: <hr>
                     71:
                     72: <section id=new>
                     73: <h3>What's New</h3>
                     74: <p>
                     75: This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 7.0.
                     76: For a comprehensive list, see the <a href="plus70.html">changelog</a> leading
                     77: to 7.0.
                     78:
                     79: <ul>
                     80:
                     81: <li>New/extended platforms:
                     82:   <ul>
1.3       jsg        83:     <li>New <a href="riscv64.html">riscv64</a> platform for 64-bit RISC-V
                     84:         systems.
1.1       benno      85:     <li>Support for the <a href="powerpc64.html">powerpc64</a> platform was improved:
                     86:     <ul>
                     87:        <li>...
                     88:     </ul>
                     89:     <li>The arm64 platform support was improved with the following changes:
                     90:     <ul>
                     91:        <li>...
                     92:     </ul>
                     93:   </ul>
                     94:
                     95: <li>Various kernel improvements:
                     96:   <ul>
                     97:        <li>...
                     98:   </ul>
                     99:
                    100: <li>SMP Improvements
                    101:   <ul>
                    102:        <li>...
                    103:   </ul>
                    104:
                    105: <li>Direct Rendering Manager
                    106:   <ul>
1.8       jsg       107:        <li>Updated <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/drm.4">drm(4)</a>
                    108:            to Linux 5.10.65
                    109:        <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/inteldrm.4">inteldrm(4)</a>:
                    110:            better support for Tiger Lake
                    111:        <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/drm.4">amdgpu(4)</a>:
                    112:            support for Navi 12, Navi 21 "Sienna Cichlid", Arcturus
                    113:        <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/drm.4">amdgpu(4)</a>:
                    114:            support for Cezanne "Green Sardine" Ryzen 5000 APU
1.1       benno     115:   </ul>
                    116:
                    117: <li>VMM/VMD improvements
                    118:   <ul>
                    119:        <li>...
                    120:   </ul>
                    121:
                    122: <li>Various new userland features:
                    123:   <ul>
                    124:        <li>...
                    125:   </ul>
                    126:
                    127: <li>Various bugfixes and tweaks in userland:
                    128:   <ul>
                    129:        <li>...
                    130:   </ul>
                    131:
                    132: <li>Improved hardware support and driver bugfixes, including:
                    133:   <ul>
                    134:        <li>...
                    135:   </ul>
                    136:
                    137: <li>New or improved network hardware support:
                    138:   <ul>
                    139:        <li>...
                    140:   </ul>
                    141:
                    142: <li>Added or improved wireless network drivers:
                    143:   <ul>
                    144:        <li>...
                    145:   </ul>
                    146:
                    147: <li>IEEE 802.11 wireless stack improvements and bugfixes:
                    148:   <ul>
                    149:        <li>...
                    150:   </ul>
                    151:
                    152: <li>Generic network stack improvements and bugfixes:
                    153:   <ul>
                    154:        <li>...
                    155:   </ul>
                    156:
                    157: <li>Installer and upgrade improvements:
                    158:   <ul>
                    159:        <li>...
                    160:  </ul>
                    161:
                    162: <li>Security improvements:
                    163:   <ul>
                    164:        <li>...
                    165:   </ul>
                    166:
                    167: <li>Routing daemons and other userland network improvements:
                    168:   <ul>
                    169:     <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bgpd.8">bgpd(8)</a> daemon saw the following changes:
                    170:     <ul>
                    171:        <li>...
                    172:     </ul>
                    173:
                    174:     <li>...other routing daemons...
                    175:
                    176:     <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pf.4">pf(4)</a> packet filter and its userland utility:
                    177:     <ul>
                    178:        <li>...
                    179:     </ul>
                    180:
                    181:     <li>IPSEC support in the kernel and the <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/iked.8">iked(8)</a> userland daemon:
                    182:     <ul>
                    183:        <li>...
                    184:     </ul>
                    185:
                    186:     <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/httpd.8">httpd(8)</a> webserver saw numerous improvements:
                    187:     <ul>
                    188:        <li>...
                    189:     </ul>
                    190:
                    191:     <li><a
                    192:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/rpki-client.8">rpki-client(8)</a>
                    193:        received the following new features and bugfixes:
                    194:     <ul>
                    195:        <li>...
                    196:     </ul>
                    197:
                    198:     <li>Changes to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.8">dhclient(8)</a>:
                    199:     <ul>
                    200:        <li>...
                    201:     </ul>
                    202:
                    203:     <li>XXX Two new daemons, <a
                    204:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhcpleased.8">dhcpleased(8)</a> and <a
                    205:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/resolvd.8">resolvd(8)</a> were added.
                    206:        These work alongside with <a
                    207:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/slaacd.8">slaacd(8)</a> and <a
                    208:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/unwind.8">unwind(8)</a> to provide a
                    209:        coherent and simple automatic configuration of network interfaces and
                    210:        DNS resolution.<br>
                    211:        The two daemons are not enabled by default for now, but can be tested
                    212:        by enabling them with <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rcctl.8">rcctl(8)</a>.
                    213:     <ul>
                    214:        <li>...
                    215:     </ul>
                    216:
                    217:     <li>Changes to snmp related tools:
                    218:     <ul>
                    219:        <li>...
                    220:     </ul>
                    221:
                    222:     <li>Other userland network changes:
                    223:     <ul>
                    224:        <li>...
                    225:     </ul>
                    226:   </ul>
                    227:
                    228: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/tmux">tmux(1)</a> improvements and bug fixes:
                    229:   <ul>
                    230:        <li>...
                    231:   </ul>
                    232:
                    233: <li>OpenSMTPD 7.0.0
                    234:   <ul>
                    235:        <li>...
                    236:   </ul>
                    237:
1.2       jsg       238: <li>LibreSSL 3.4.0 XXX
1.1       benno     239:   <ul>
                    240:     <li>New Features
                    241:     <ul>
                    242:        <li>...
                    243:     </ul>
                    244:
                    245:     <li>Portable Improvements
                    246:     <ul>
                    247:        <li>...
                    248:     </ul>
                    249:
                    250:     <li>API and Documentation Enhancements
                    251:     <ul>
                    252:        <li>...
                    253:     </ul>
                    254:
                    255:     <li>Compatibility Changes
                    256:     <ul>
                    257:        <li>...
                    258:     </ul>
                    259:
                    260:     <li>Testing and Proactive Security
                    261:     <ul>
                    262:        <li>...
                    263:     </ul>
                    264:
                    265:     <li>Internal Improvements
                    266:       <ul>
                    267:        <li>...
                    268:       </ul>
                    269:
                    270:     <li>Bug Fixes
                    271:     <ul>
                    272:        <li>...
                    273:     </ul>
                    274:   </ul>
                    275:
1.2       jsg       276: <li>OpenSSH 8.7 XXX
1.1       benno     277:   <ul>
                    278:     <li>Security fixes
                    279:     <ul>
                    280:        <li>...
                    281:     </ul>
                    282:     <li>Potentially incompatible changes
                    283:     <ul>
                    284:        <li>...
                    285:     </ul>
                    286:     <li>New Features
                    287:     <ul>
                    288:        <li>...
                    289:     </ul>
                    290:     <li>Bugfixes
                    291:     <ul>
                    292:        <li>...
                    293:     </ul>
                    294:   </ul>
                    295:
                    296: <li>Ports and packages:
                    297:   <p>Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
                    298:   <!-- number of FTP packages minus SHA256, SHA256.sig, index.txt -->
                    299:   <ul style="column-count: 3">
1.10      naddy     300:     <li>aarch64:     11034
1.9       naddy     301:     <li>amd64:       11325
1.1       benno     302:     <li>arm:         ...
1.10      naddy     303:     <li>i386:        10248
1.1       benno     304:     <li>mips64:      ...
                    305:     <li>mips64el:    ...
                    306:     <li>powerpc:     ...
1.10      naddy     307:     <li>powerpc64:   9273
1.1       benno     308:     <li>sparc64:     ...
                    309:   </ul>
                    310:
                    311:   <p>Some highlights:
                    312:   <ul style="column-count: 3">
1.2       jsg       313:     <li>Asterisk 18.6.0
1.1       benno     314:     <li>Audacity 2.4.2
1.2       jsg       315:     <li>CMake 3.20.3
                    316:     <li>Chromium 93.0.4577.82
1.1       benno     317:     <li>Emacs 27.2
1.2       jsg       318:     <li>FFmpeg 4.4
                    319:     <li>GCC 8.4.0 and 11.2.0
                    320:     <li>GHC 8.10.6
                    321:     <li>GNOME 40.4
                    322:     <li>Go 1.17
                    323:     <li>JDK 8u302, 11.0.12 and 16.0.2
                    324:     <li>KDE Applications 21.08.1
                    325:     <li>KDE Frameworks 5.85.0
                    326:     <li>Krita 4.4.8
                    327:     <li>LLVM/Clang 11.1.0
1.7       jsg       328:     <li>LibreOffice 7.2.1.2
1.1       benno     329:     <li>Lua 5.1.5, 5.2.4 and 5.3.6
1.2       jsg       330:     <li>MariaDB 10.6.4
1.1       benno     331:     <li>Mono 6.12.0.122
1.2       jsg       332:     <li>Mozilla Firefox 92.0 and ESR 91.1.0
1.7       jsg       333:     <li>Mozilla Thunderbird 91.1.1
1.2       jsg       334:     <li>Mutt 2.1.3 and NeoMutt 20210205
                    335:     <li>Node.js 12.22.6
1.1       benno     336:     <li>OCaml 4.10.0
1.2       jsg       337:     <li>OpenLDAP 2.4.59
                    338:     <li>PHP 7.3.30, 7.4.23 and 8.0.10
1.7       jsg       339:     <li>Postfix 3.5.12
1.2       jsg       340:     <li>PostgreSQL 13.4
                    341:     <li>Python 2.7.18, 3.8.12 and 3.9.7
                    342:     <li>Qt 5.15.2 and 6.0.4
                    343:     <li>R 4.1.1
                    344:     <li>Ruby 2.6.8, 2.7.4 and 3.0.2
                    345:     <li>Rust 1.55.0
                    346:     <li>SQLite 3.35.5
1.1       benno     347:     <li>Shotcut 21.01.29
1.2       jsg       348:     <li>Sudo 1.9.7p2
                    349:     <li>Suricata 6.0.2
1.1       benno     350:     <li>Tcl/Tk 8.5.19 and 8.6.8
                    351:     <li>TeX Live 2020
1.2       jsg       352:     <li>Vim 8.2.3394 and Neovim 0.5.0
1.1       benno     353:     <li>Xfce 4.16
                    354:   </ul>
                    355:   <p>
                    356:
                    357: <li>As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
                    358:
                    359: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
                    360:   <ul>
1.2       jsg       361:     <li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.7 with xserver 1.20.13 + patches,
1.5       jsg       362:         freetype 2.10.4, fontconfig 2.12.4, Mesa 21.1.8, xterm 367,
1.2       jsg       363:         xkeyboard-config 2.20, fonttosfnt 1.2.2 and more)
                    364:     <li>LLVM/Clang 11.1.0 (+ patches)
1.1       benno     365:     <li>GCC 4.2.1 (+ patches) and 3.3.6 (+ patches)
                    366:     <li>Perl 5.32.1 (+ patches)
1.2       jsg       367:     <li>NSD 4.3.7
                    368:     <li>Unbound 1.13.2
1.1       benno     369:     <li>Ncurses 5.7
                    370:     <li>Binutils 2.17 (+ patches)
                    371:     <li>Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
                    372:     <li>Awk December 18, 2020 version
1.2       jsg       373:     <li>Expat 2.4.1
1.1       benno     374:   </ul>
                    375:
                    376: </ul>
                    377: </section>
                    378:
                    379: <hr>
                    380:
                    381: <section id=install>
                    382: <h3>How to install</h3>
                    383: <p>
                    384: Please refer to the following files on the mirror site for
                    385: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 7.0 on your machine:
                    386:
                    387: <ul>
                    388: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/alpha/INSTALL.alpha">
                    389:        .../OpenBSD/7.0/alpha/INSTALL.alpha</a>
                    390: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/amd64/INSTALL.amd64">
                    391:        .../OpenBSD/7.0/amd64/INSTALL.amd64</a>
                    392: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/arm64/INSTALL.arm64">
                    393:        .../OpenBSD/7.0/arm64/INSTALL.arm64</a>
                    394: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/armv7/INSTALL.armv7">
                    395:        .../OpenBSD/7.0/armv7/INSTALL.armv7</a>
                    396: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/hppa/INSTALL.hppa">
                    397:        .../OpenBSD/7.0/hppa/INSTALL.hppa</a>
                    398: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/i386/INSTALL.i386">
                    399:        .../OpenBSD/7.0/i386/INSTALL.i386</a>
                    400: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/landisk/INSTALL.landisk">
                    401:        .../OpenBSD/7.0/landisk/INSTALL.landisk</a>
                    402: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/loongson/INSTALL.loongson">
                    403:        .../OpenBSD/7.0/loongson/INSTALL.loongson</a>
                    404: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k">
                    405:        .../OpenBSD/7.0/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k</a>
                    406: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/macppc/INSTALL.macppc">
                    407:        .../OpenBSD/7.0/macppc/INSTALL.macppc</a>
                    408: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/octeon/INSTALL.octeon">
                    409:        .../OpenBSD/7.0/octeon/INSTALL.octeon</a>
                    410: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/powerpc64/INSTALL.powerpc64">
                    411:        .../OpenBSD/7.0/powerpc64/INSTALL.powerpc64</a>
1.3       jsg       412: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/riscv64/INSTALL.riscv64">
                    413:        .../OpenBSD/7.0/riscv64/INSTALL.riscv64</a>
1.1       benno     414: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64">
                    415:        .../OpenBSD/7.0/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64</a>
                    416: </ul>
                    417: </section>
                    418:
                    419: <hr>
                    420:
                    421: <section id=quickinstall>
                    422: <p>
                    423: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the use of
                    424: the "<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel.8">disklabel</a> -E" command.
                    425: If you are at all confused when installing OpenBSD, read the relevant
                    426: INSTALL.* file as listed above!
                    427:
                    428: <h3>OpenBSD/alpha:</h3>
                    429:
                    430: <p>
                    431: If your machine can boot from CD, you can write <i>install70.iso</i> or
                    432: <i>cd70.iso</i> to a CD and boot from it.
                    433: Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
                    434:
                    435: <h3>OpenBSD/amd64:</h3>
                    436:
                    437: <p>
                    438: If your machine can boot from CD, you can write <i>install70.iso</i> or
                    439: <i>cd70.iso</i> to a CD and boot from it.
                    440: You may need to adjust your BIOS options first.
                    441:
                    442: <p>
                    443: If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install70.img</i> or
                    444: <i>miniroot70.img</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
                    445:
                    446: <p>
                    447: If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
                    448: you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
                    449: INSTALL.amd64 document.
                    450:
                    451: <p>
                    452: If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
                    453: read INSTALL.amd64.
                    454:
                    455: <h3>OpenBSD/arm64:</h3>
                    456:
                    457: <p>
                    458: Write <i>install70.img</i> or <i>miniroot70.img</i> to a disk and boot from it
                    459: after connecting to the serial console.  Refer to INSTALL.arm64 for more
                    460: details.
                    461:
                    462: <h3>OpenBSD/armv7:</h3>
                    463:
                    464: <p>
                    465: Write a system specific miniroot to an SD card and boot from it after connecting
                    466: to the serial console.  Refer to INSTALL.armv7 for more details.
                    467:
                    468: <h3>OpenBSD/hppa:</h3>
                    469:
                    470: <p>
                    471: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
                    472: <a href="hppa.html#install">hppa platform page</a>.
                    473:
                    474: <h3>OpenBSD/i386:</h3>
                    475:
                    476: <p>
                    477: If your machine can boot from CD, you can write <i>install70.iso</i> or
                    478: <i>cd70.iso</i> to a CD and boot from it.
                    479: You may need to adjust your BIOS options first.
                    480:
                    481: <p>
                    482: If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install70.img</i> or
                    483: <i>miniroot70.img</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
                    484:
                    485: <p>
                    486: If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
                    487: you can install across the network using PXE as described in
                    488: the included INSTALL.i386 document.
                    489:
                    490: <p>
                    491: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
                    492: read INSTALL.i386.
                    493:
                    494: <h3>OpenBSD/landisk:</h3>
                    495:
                    496: <p>
                    497: Write <i>miniroot70.img</i> to the start of the CF
                    498: or disk, and boot normally.
                    499:
                    500: <h3>OpenBSD/loongson:</h3>
                    501:
                    502: <p>
                    503: Write <i>miniroot70.img</i> to a USB stick and boot bsd.rd from it
                    504: or boot bsd.rd via tftp.
                    505: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.loongson for more details.
                    506:
                    507: <h3>OpenBSD/luna88k:</h3>
                    508:
                    509: <p>
                    510: Copy 'boot' and 'bsd.rd' to a Mach or UniOS partition, and boot the bootloader
                    511: from the PROM, and then bsd.rd from the bootloader.
                    512: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.luna88k for more details.
                    513:
                    514: <h3>OpenBSD/macppc:</h3>
                    515:
                    516: <p>
                    517: Burn the image from a mirror site to a CDROM, and power on your machine
                    518: while holding down the <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and
                    519: shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
                    520:
                    521: <p>
                    522: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
                    523: /7.0/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
                    524:
                    525: <h3>OpenBSD/octeon:</h3>
                    526:
                    527: <p>
                    528: After connecting a serial port, boot bsd.rd over the network via DHCP/tftp.
                    529: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.octeon for more details.
                    530:
                    531: <h3>OpenBSD/powerpc64:</h3>
                    532:
                    533: <p>
                    534: To install, write <i>install70.img</i> or <i>miniroot70.img</i> to a
                    535: USB stick, plug it into the machine and choose the <i>OpenBSD
                    536: install</i> menu item in Petitboot.
                    537: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.powerpc64 for more details.
                    538:
1.3       jsg       539: <h3>OpenBSD/riscv64:</h3>
1.1       benno     540:
                    541: <p>
1.3       jsg       542: To install, write <i>install70.img</i> or <i>miniroot70.img</i> to a
                    543: USB stick, and boot with that drive plugged in.
                    544: Make sure you also have the microSD card plugged in that shipped with the
                    545: HiFive Unmatched board.
                    546: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.riscv64 for more details.
1.1       benno     547:
                    548: <h3>OpenBSD/sparc64:</h3>
                    549:
                    550: <p>
                    551: Burn the image from a mirror site to a CDROM, boot from it, and type
                    552: <i>boot cdrom</i>.
                    553:
                    554: <p>
                    555: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
                    556: <i>floppy70.img</i> or <i>floppyB70.img</i>
                    557: (depending on your machine) to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
                    558: floppy</i>. Refer to INSTALL.sparc64 for details.
                    559:
                    560: <p>
                    561: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
                    562: will most likely fail.
                    563:
                    564: <p>
                    565: You can also write <i>miniroot70.img</i> to the swap partition on
                    566: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
                    567:
                    568: <p>
                    569: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
                    570: </section>
                    571:
                    572: <hr>
                    573:
                    574: <section id=upgrade>
                    575: <h3>How to upgrade</h3>
                    576: <p>
1.4       jsg       577: If you already have an OpenBSD 6.9 system, and do not want to reinstall,
1.1       benno     578: upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
                    579: <a href="faq/upgrade70.html">Upgrade Guide</a>.
                    580: </section>
                    581:
                    582: <hr>
                    583:
                    584: <section id=sourcecode>
                    585: <h3>Notes about the source code</h3>
                    586: <p>
                    587: <code>src.tar.gz</code> contains a source archive starting at <code>/usr/src</code>.
                    588: This file contains everything you need except for the kernel sources,
                    589: which are in a separate archive.
                    590: To extract:
                    591: <blockquote><pre>
                    592: # <kbd>mkdir -p /usr/src</kbd>
                    593: # <kbd>cd /usr/src</kbd>
                    594: # <kbd>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</kbd>
                    595: </pre></blockquote>
                    596: <p>
                    597: <code>sys.tar.gz</code> contains a source archive starting at <code>/usr/src/sys</code>.
                    598: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
                    599: To extract:
                    600: <blockquote><pre>
                    601: # <kbd>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</kbd>
                    602: # <kbd>cd /usr/src</kbd>
                    603: # <kbd>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</kbd>
                    604: </pre></blockquote>
                    605: <p>
                    606: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout.  Using these trees it
                    607: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
                    608: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
                    609: Using these files
                    610: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
                    611: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
                    612: </section>
                    613:
                    614: <hr>
                    615:
                    616: <section id=ports>
                    617: <h3>Ports Tree</h3>
                    618: <p>
                    619: A ports tree archive is also provided.  To extract:
                    620: <blockquote><pre>
                    621: # <kbd>cd /usr</kbd>
                    622: # <kbd>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</kbd>
                    623: </pre></blockquote>
                    624: <p>
                    625: Go read the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">ports</a> page
                    626: if you know nothing about ports
                    627: at this point.  This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
                    628: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
                    629: OpenBSD ports system.
                    630: <p>
                    631: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS checkout of our ports.
                    632: As with our complete source tree, our ports tree is available via
                    633: <a href="anoncvs.html">AnonCVS</a>.
                    634: So, in order to keep up to date with the -stable branch, you must make
                    635: the <i>ports/</i> tree available on a read-write medium and update the tree
                    636: with a command like:
                    637: <blockquote><pre>
                    638: # <kbd>cd /usr/ports</kbd>
                    639: # <kbd>cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_7_0</kbd>
                    640: </pre></blockquote>
                    641: <p>
                    642: [Of course, you must replace the server name here with a nearby anoncvs
                    643: server.]
                    644: <p>
                    645: Note that most ports are available as packages on our mirrors. Updated
                    646: ports for the 7.0 release will be made available if problems arise.
                    647: <p>
                    648: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
                    649: would like to know more, the mailing list
                    650: <a href="mail.html">ports@openbsd.org</a> is a good place to know.
                    651: </section>