The OpenBSD 4.3 Release:
To be released May 1, 2008
Copyright 1997-2008, Theo de Raadt.
ISBN 978-0-9784475-1-9
4.3 Song: "XXX"
What's New
How to install
How to upgrade
How to use the ports tree
Ordering a CD set
To get the files for this release:
- Order a CDROM from our ordering system.
- See the information on The FTP page for
a list of mirror machines.
- Go to the pub/OpenBSD/4.3/ directory on
one of the mirror sites.
- Briefly read the rest of this document.
- Have a look at The 4.3 Errata page for a list
of bugs and workarounds.
- See a detailed log of changes between the
4.2 and 4.3 releases.
Note: All applicable copyrights and credits can be found
in the applicable file sources found in the files src.tar.gz, sys.tar.gz,
xenocara.tar.gz, or in the files fetched via ports.tar.gz. The distribution
files used to build packages from the ports.tar.gz file are not included on
the CDROM because of lack of space.
What's New
This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 4.3.
For a comprehensive list, see the changelog leading
to 4.3.
- New/extended platforms:
- Platforms skipped this release:
- Improved hardware support, including:
- The bge(4) driver now supports BCM5906/BCM5906M 10/100 and BCM5755 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet devices.
- The cas(4) driver now supports Cassini+ 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet devices.
- The em(4) driver now supports ICH9 10/100 and 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet devices.
- The gem(4) driver now supports the onboard 1000base-SX interface on the Sun Fire V880 server.
- The ixgb(4) driver now supports the Sun 10Gb PCI-X Ethernet devices.
- The msk(4) driver now supports Yukon FE+ 10/100 and Yukon Supreme 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet devices.
- The nfe(4) driver now supports MCP73, MCP77 and MCP79 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet devices.
- The cmpci(4) driver now supports CMI8768 based audio adapters.
- The it(4) driver now supports ITE IT8705F/8712F/8716F/8718F/8726F and SiS SiS950 ICs. Watchdog timer functionality added.
- The mfi(4) driver now supports Dell CERC6/PERC6 and LSI SAS1078 RAID controllers.
- The viapm(4) driver now supports the VIA VT8237S south bridges SMBus controller.
- New amdpcib(4) driver for the AMD-8111 series LPC bridge and timecounter on amd64.
- New pctr(4) driver for the CPU performance counters on amd64.
- New bwi(4) driver for the Broadcom AirForce IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network device.
- New envy(4) driver for the VIA Envy24 audio device.
- New et(4) driver for the Agere/LSI ET1310 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet device.
- New etphy(4) driver for the Agere/LSI ET1011 TruePHY Gigabit Ethernet PHY.
- New amdpcib(4) driver for the AMD-8111 series LPC bridge and timecounter on i386.
- New glxpcib(4) driver for the AMD CS5536 PCI-ISA bridge with timecounter, watchdog timer, and GPIO on i386.
- New msts(4) driver for the Meinberg Standard Time String timedelta sensor.
- New gbe(4) driver for the SGI Graphics Back End (GBE) Frame Buffer on sgi.
- New mkbc(4) driver for the Moosehead PS/2 Controller on sgi.
- New power(4) driver for the power button on sgi.
- New ecadc(4) driver for the Environmental Monitoring Subsystem temperature sensor on sparc64.
- New tda(4) driver for the fan controller on the Sun Blade 1000/2000, making these machines much less noisy.
- New spdmem(4) driver retrieves information about memory modules.
- New thmc(4) driver for the TI THMC50, Analog ADM1022/1028 temperature sensor.
- New uchcom(4) driver for the WinChipHead CH341/340 based USB serial adapter.
- New umbg(4) driver for the Meinberg Funkuhren USB5131 timedelta sensor.
- New upgt(4) driver for the Conexant/Intersil PrismGT SoftMAC USB IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network device.
- New wbng(4) driver for the Winbond W83793G temperature, voltage, and fan sensor.
- New wbsio(4) driver for the Winbond LPC Super I/O ICs.
- New adl(4) driver for the Andigilog aSC7621 temperature, voltage, and fan sensor.
- New tools:
- snmpd(8), implementing the Simple Network Management Protocol.
- The snmpctl(8) program controls the SNMP daemon.
- The pcidump(8) utility displays the device address, vendor, and product name of PCI devices.
- ldattach(8) is used to attach a line discipline to a serial line to allow for in-kernel processing of the received and/or sent data.
- New functionality:
- eeprom(8) is now able to display the OpenPROM device tree on systems that have it.
- Support for X11 on sgi has been added.
- The periodic security(8) reports now include package changes.
- The cmpci(4) driver now supports multichannel audio playback if the hardware supports it.
- The auvia(4) driver now supports multichannel audio playback if the hardware supports it.
- Assorted improvements and code cleanup:
- Improved support for an lkm(4) subsystem on amd64.
- ossaudio(3) received several bug fixes and enhancements including but not limited to improved recording and full-duplex support
- audio(4) received several bug fixes and enhancements including but not limited to improved recording and full-duplex support
- make(1) was heavily modified, mostly to improve support for parallel build.
Parallel builds now run commands in the same way the sequential builds do,
and the output from commands is more readable.
A large part of the source tree, xenocara, and quite a few ports now build
correctly with
make -j
.
- Install/Upgrade process changes:
- OpenBGPD 4.3:
- OpenNTPD 4.3:
- OpenOSPFD 4.3:
- Hoststated 4.3:
- OpenSSH 4.8:
- Over 4,900 ports, minor robustness improvements in package tools.
- Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
- i386: XXXX
- sparc64: XXXX
- alpha: XXXX
- sh: XXX
|
- amd64: XXXX
- powerpc: XXXX
- sparc: XXXX
- m68k: XXXX
|
- arm: XXXX
- hppa: XXXX
- vax: XXX
|
Some highlights:
- Gnome 2.20.3.
- GNUstep 1.14.2.
- Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12.
- Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.12.
- GHC 6.6.1 (amd64 and i386 only).
- MySQL 5.0.51a.
- OpenMotif 2.3.0.
- OpenOffice.org 2.3.1.
- PostgreSQL 8.2.6.
- Xfce 4.4.2.
- ...
- As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
- The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
- Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.3 + patches, freetype 2.3.5, fontconfig
2.4.2, Mesa 7.0.2, xterm 232 and more)
- Gcc 2.95.3
(+ patches)
and 3.3.5
(+ patches)
- Perl 5.8.8 (+ patches)
- Our improved and secured version of Apache 1.3, with SSL/TLS and DSO support
- OpenSSL 0.9.7j (+ patches)
- Groff 1.15
- Sendmail 8.14.1, with libmilter
- Bind 9.4.2 (+ patches)
- Lynx 2.8.5rel.4 with HTTPS and IPv6 support (+ patches)
- Sudo 1.6.9p12
- Ncurses 5.2
- Latest KAME IPv6
- Heimdal 0.7.2 (+ patches)
- Arla 0.35.7
- Binutils 2.15 (+ patches)
- Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
How to install
Following this are the instructions which you would have on a piece of
paper if you had purchased a CDROM set instead of doing an alternate
form of install. The instructions for doing an FTP (or other style
of) install are very similar; the CDROM instructions are left intact
so that you can see how much easier it would have been if you had
purchased a CDROM instead.
Please refer to the following files on the three CDROMs or FTP mirror for
extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 4.3 on your machine:
- CD1:4.3/i386/INSTALL.i386
- CD2:4.3/amd64/INSTALL.amd64
- CD2:4.3/macppc/INSTALL.macppc
- CD3:4.3/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64
- FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.3/alpha/INSTALL.alpha
- FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.3/armish/INSTALL.armish
- FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.3/hp300/INSTALL.hp300
- FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.3/hppa/INSTALL.hppa
- FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.3/landisk/INSTALL.landisk
- FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.3/mac68k/INSTALL.mac68k
- FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.3/mvme68k/INSTALL.mvme68k
- FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.3/mvme88k/INSTALL.mvme88k
- FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.1/sgi/INSTALL.sgi
- FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.3/sparc/INSTALL.sparc
- FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.3/vax/INSTALL.vax
- FTP:.../OpenBSD/4.3/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus
Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the
use of the "disklabel -E" command. If you are at all confused when
installing OpenBSD, read the relevant INSTALL.* file as listed above!
OpenBSD/i386:
Play with your BIOS options to enable booting from a CD. The OpenBSD/i386
release is on CD1. If your BIOS does not support booting from CD, you will need
to create a boot floppy to install from. To create a boot floppy write
CD1:4.3/i386/floppy43.fs to a floppy and boot via the floppy drive.
Use CD1:4.3/i386/floppyB43.fs instead for greater SCSI controller
support, or CD1:4.3/i386/floppyC43.fs for better laptop support.
If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
you can install across the network using PXE as described in
the included INSTALL.i386 document.
If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
read INSTALL.i386.
To make a boot floppy under MS-DOS, use the "rawrite" utility located
at CD1:4.3/tools/rawrite.exe. To make the boot floppy under a Unix OS,
use the
dd(1)
utility. The following is an example usage of
dd(1),
where the device could be "floppy", "rfd0c", or
"rfd0a".
# dd if=<file> of=/dev/<device> bs=32k
Make sure you use properly formatted perfect floppies with NO BAD BLOCKS or
your install will most likely fail. For more information on creating a boot
floppy and installing OpenBSD/i386 please refer to
FAQ 4.3.1.
OpenBSD/amd64:
The 4.3 release of OpenBSD/amd64 is located on CD2.
Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
your BIOS options first.
If you can't boot from the CD, you can create a boot floppy to install from.
To do this, write CD2:4.3/amd64/floppy43.fs to a floppy, then
boot from the floppy drive.
If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
INSTALL.amd64 document.
If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
read INSTALL.amd64.
OpenBSD/macppc:
Put CD2 in your CDROM drive and poweron your machine while holding down the
C key until the display turns on and shows OpenBSD/macppc boot.
Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter boot cd:,ofwboot
/4.3/macppc/bsd.rd
OpenBSD/sparc64:
Put CD3 in your CDROM drive and type boot cdrom.
If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
CD3:4.3/sparc64/floppy43.fs or CD3:4.3/sparc64/floppyB43.fs
(depending on your machine) to a floppy and boot it with boot
floppy. Refer to INSTALL.sparc64 for details.
Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
will most likely fail.
You can also write CD3:4.3/sparc64/miniroot43.fs to the swap partition on
the disk and boot with boot disk:b.
If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
OpenBSD/alpha:
Write FTP:4.3/alpha/floppy43.fs or
FTP:4.3/alpha/floppyB43.fs (depending on your machine) to a diskette and
enter boot dva0. Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
will most likely fail.
OpenBSD/armish:
After connecting a serial port, Thecus can boot directly from the network
either tftp or http. Configure the network using fconfig, reset,
then load bsd.rd, see INSTALL.armish for specific details.
IOData HDL-G can only boot from an EXT-2 partition. Boot into linux
and copy 'boot' and bsd.rd into the first partition on wd0 (hda1)
then load and run bsd.rd, preserving the wd0i (hda1) ext2fs partition.
More details are available in INSTALL.armish.
OpenBSD/hp300:
OpenBSD/hppa:
OpenBSD/landisk:
Write miniroot43.fs to the start of the CF
or disk, and boot normally.
OpenBSD/mac68k:
Boot MacOS as normal and extract the Macside "BSD/Mac68k Booter" utility from
FTP:4.3/mac68k/utils onto your hard disk. Configure the "BSD/Mac68k
Booter" with the location of your bsd.rd kernel and boot into the installer.
Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.mac68k for more details.
OpenBSD/mvme68k:
You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.
The network boot requires a MVME68K BUG version that supports the NIOT
and NBO debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme68k
for more details.
OpenBSD/mvme88k:
You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.
The network boot requires a MVME88K BUG version that supports the NIOT
and NBO debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme88k
for more details.
OpenBSD/sparc:
Boot from one of the provided install ISO images, using one of the two
commands listed below, depending on the version of your ROM.
ok boot cdrom 4.3/sparc/bsd.rd
or
> b sd(0,6,0)4.3/sparc/bsd.rd
If your SPARC system does not have a CD drive, you can alternatively boot from floppy.
To do so you need to write floppy43.fs to a floppy.
For more information see FAQ 4.3.1.
To boot from the floppy use one of the two commands listed below,
depending on the version of your ROM.
ok boot floppy
or
> b fd()
Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
will most likely fail.
If your SPARC system doesn't have a floppy drive nor a CD drive, you can either
setup a bootable tape, or install via network, as told in the
INSTALL.sparc file.
OpenBSD/sgi:
Burn cd43.iso on a CD-R, put it in the CD drive of your machine and
select Install System Software from the System Maintenance menu.
If your machine doesn't have a CD drive, you can
setup a DHCP/tftp network server, and boot using "bootp()/bsd.rd".
Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
OpenBSD/vax:
Boot over the network via mopbooting as described in INSTALL.vax.
OpenBSD/zaurus:
Using the Linux built-in graphical ipkg installer, install the
openbsd43_arm.ipk package. Reboot, then run it. Read INSTALL.zaurus
for a few important details.
Notes about the source code:
src.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src. This file
contains everything you need except for the kernel sources, which are
in a separate archive. To extract:
# mkdir -p /usr/src
# cd /usr/src
# tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz
sys.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src/sys.
This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
To extract:
# mkdir -p /usr/src/sys
# cd /usr/src
# tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz
Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout. Using these trees it
is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
described here.
Using these files
results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
How to upgrade
If you already have an OpenBSD 4.2 system, and do not want to reinstall,
upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
Upgrade Guide.
Ports Tree
A ports tree archive is also provided. To extract:
# cd /usr
# tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz
# cd ports
The ports/ subdirectory is a checkout of the OpenBSD ports tree. Go
read the ports page
if you know nothing about ports
at this point. This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
OpenBSD ports system.
The ports/ directory represents a CVS (see the manpage for
cvs(1) if
you aren't familiar with CVS) checkout of our ports. As with our complete
source tree, our ports tree is available via anoncvs. So, in
order to keep current with it, you must make the ports/ tree
available on a read-write medium and update the tree with a command
like:
# cd [portsdir]/; cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_4_3
[Of course, you must replace the local directory and server name here
with the location of your ports collection and a nearby anoncvs
server.]
Note that most ports are available as packages through FTP. Updated
packages for the 4.3 release will be made available if problems arise.
If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
would like to know more, the mailing list ports@openbsd.org is a good
place to know.
www@openbsd.org
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