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Released November 1, 2002
Copyright 1997-2002, Theo de Raadt.
ISBN 0-9731791-0-4
3.2 Song: "Goldflipper"
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.
This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 3.2. For a comprehensive list, see the changelog leading to 3.2.
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.
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!
Use CD1:3.2/i386/floppyB32.fs instead for greater scsi controller support, or CD1:3.2/i386/floppyC32.fs for better laptop support.
If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to read the included INSTALL.i386 document.
To make a boot floppy under MS-DOS, use the "rawrite" utility located at CD:/3.2/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 FAQ4.1.
If you can't boot from CDROM, write CD1:3.2/alpha/floppy32.fs or CD1:3.2/alpha/floppyB32.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.
Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter boot cd:,ofwboot /3.2/macppc/bsd.rd
> boot cdrom 3.2/sparc/bsd.rd or > b sd(0,6,0)3.2/sparc/bsd.rd
If your sparc does not have a CD drive, you can alternatively boot from floppy. To do so you need to write "CD3:3.2/sparc/floppy32.fs" to a floppy. For more information see FAQ4.1. To boot from the floppy use one of the two commands listed below, depending on the version of your ROM.
> boot floppy or > boot fd()
Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install will most likely fail.
If your sparc 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.
If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
CD3:3.2/sparc64/floppy32.fs to a floppy and boot it with boot
floppy.
Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install will most likely fail.
You can also write CD3:3.2/sparc64/miniroot32.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
# mkdir -p /usr/src # cd /usr/src # tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz
srcsys.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/srcsys.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 at http://www.OpenBSD.org/anoncvs.html. 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.
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 http://www.OpenBSD.org/faq/faq15.html 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.
Certainly, the OpenBSD ports system is not complete. It is doubtful it will ever be. However, it is growing very fast and getting more stable. Almost all ports provided with this release should build without problems on most architectures (over 2000 packages build on i386, for instance).
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_3_2
[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 3.2 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.