INSTALLATION NOTES for OpenBSD/macppc 5.3 What is OpenBSD? ---------------- OpenBSD is a fully functional, multi-platform UN*X-like Operating System based on Berkeley Networking Release 2 (Net/2) and 4.4BSD-Lite. There are several operating systems in this family, but OpenBSD differentiates itself by putting security and correctness first. The OpenBSD team strives to achieve what is called a 'secure by default' status. This means that an OpenBSD user should feel safe that their newly installed machine will not be compromised. This 'secure by default' goal is achieved by taking a proactive stance on security. Since security flaws are essentially mistakes in design or implement- ation, the OpenBSD team puts as much importance on finding and fixing existing design flaws and implementation bugs as it does writing new code. This means that an OpenBSD system will not only be more secure, but it will be more stable. The source code for all critical system components has been checked for remote-access, local-access, denial- of-service, data destruction, and information-gathering problems. In addition to bug fixing, OpenBSD has integrated strong cryptography into the base system. A fully functional IPsec implementation is provided as well as support for common protocols such as SSL and SSH. Network filtering and monitoring tools such as packet filtering, NAT, and bridging are also standard, as well as several routing services, such as BGP and OSPF. For high performance demands, support for hardware cryptography has also been added to the base system. Because security is often seen as a tradeoff with usability, OpenBSD provides as many security options as possible to allow the user to enjoy secure computing without feeling burdened by it. Because OpenBSD is from Canada, the export of Cryptography pieces (such as OpenSSH, IPsec, and Kerberos) to the world is not restricted. (NOTE: OpenBSD can not be re-exported from the US once it has entered the US. Because of this, take care NOT to get the distribution from an FTP server in the US if you are outside of Canada and the US.) A comprehensive list of the improvements brought by the 5.3 release is available on the web at http://www.OpenBSD.org/53.html. OpenBSD/macppc runs on the ``New World'' PowerPC-based Apple Macintosh systems (i.e. from the iMac onwards). Sources of OpenBSD: ------------------- This is a list of currently known FTP and HTTP servers at the time of the 5.3 release. For a more recent list, please refer to http://www.OpenBSD.org/ftp.html Argentina: http://openbsd.org.ar/pub/OpenBSD (Buenos Aires) ftp://ftp.openbsd.org.ar/pub/OpenBSD (Buenos Aires) Australia: http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/OpenBSD (Adelaide) ftp://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/OpenBSD (Adelaide) http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/OpenBSD (Brisbane) ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/OpenBSD (Brisbane) http://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/OpenBSD (Perth) ftp://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/OpenBSD (Perth) Austria: http://ftp5.eu.openbsd.org/ftp/pub/OpenBSD (Vienna) ftp://ftp5.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD (Vienna) http://ftp2.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD (Vienna) ftp://ftp2.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD (Vienna) Belgium: http://ftp.belnet.be/pub/OpenBSD (Brussels) ftp://ftp.belnet.be/pub/OpenBSD (Brussels) Brazil: http://openbsd.locaweb.com.br/pub/OpenBSD (Sao Paulo) ftp://openbsd.locaweb.com.br/pub/OpenBSD (Sao Paulo) Bulgaria: http://mirror.telepoint.bg/OpenBSD (Sofia) Canada: http://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD (Alberta) ftp://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD (Alberta) Costa Rica: http://mirrors.ucr.ac.cr/OpenBSD ftp://mirrors.ucr.ac.cr/OpenBSD Denmark: http://ftp.openbsd.dk/pub/OpenBSD (Aalborg) ftp://ftp.openbsd.dk/pub/OpenBSD (Aalborg) Estonia: http://ftp.aso.ee/pub/OpenBSD (Tallinn) ftp://ftp.aso.ee/pub/OpenBSD (Tallinn) http://ftp.estpak.ee/pub/OpenBSD (Tallinn) ftp://ftp.estpak.ee/pub/OpenBSD (Tallinn) France: http://ftp.fr.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD (Paris) ftp://ftp.fr.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD (Paris) http://ftp2.fr.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD (Paris) ftp://ftp2.fr.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD (Paris) Germany: http://openbsd.cs.fau.de/pub/OpenBSD (Erlangen) ftp://openbsd.cs.fau.de/pub/OpenBSD (Erlangen) http://ftp.spline.de/pub/OpenBSD (Berlin) ftp://ftp.spline.de/pub/OpenBSD (Berlin) ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/OpenBSD (Esslingen) http://ftp.bytemine.net/pub/OpenBSD (Oldenburg) ftp://ftp.bytemine.net/pub/OpenBSD (Oldenburg) http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/openbsd (Aachen) ftp://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/pub/OpenBSD (Aachen) http://artfiles.org/openbsd (Hamburg) Greece: http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/OpenBSD (Heraklion) ftp://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/OpenBSD (Heraklion) Hungary: http://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/OpenBSD (Budapest) ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/OpenBSD (Budapest) Ireland: http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/OpenBSD (Dublin) ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/OpenBSD (Dublin) Japan: http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/OpenBSD (Ishikawa) ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/OpenBSD (Ishikawa) http://www.ftp.ne.jp/OpenBSD (Saitama) ftp://ftp.kddilabs.jp/OpenBSD (Saitama) The Netherlands: http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/OpenBSD (Utrecht) ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/OpenBSD (Utrecht) http://ftp.bit.nl/pub/OpenBSD (Ede) ftp://ftp.bit.nl/pub/OpenBSD (Ede) Norway: http://baksmell.netrunner.nu/pub/OpenBSD (Trondheim) ftp://baksmell.netrunner.nu/pub/OpenBSD (Trondheim) Pakistan: http://stingray.cyber.net.pk/pub/OpenBSD (Karachi) ftp://stingray.cyber.net.pk/OpenBSD (Karachi) Poland: http://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/OpenBSD (Warszawa) ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/OpenBSD (Warszawa) Russia: http://mirror.corbina.net/pub/OpenBSD (Moscow) ftp://mirror.corbina.net/pub/OpenBSD (Moscow) http://mirror.yandex.ru/pub/OpenBSD (Moscow) ftp://mirror.yandex.ru/pub/OpenBSD (Moscow) Saudi Arabia: http://mirrors.isu.net.sa/pub/ftp.openbsd.org (Riyadh) ftp://mirrors.isu.net.sa/pub/ftp.openbsd.org (Riyadh) Slovenia: http://www.obsd.si/pub/OpenBSD (Ljubljana) ftp://ftp.obsd.si/pub/OpenBSD (Ljubljana) South Africa: http://mirror.is.co.za/mirror/ftp.openbsd.org (Johannesburg) ftp://ftp.is.co.za/mirror/ftp.openbsd.org (Johannesburg) Spain: http://mirror.cdmon.com/pub/OpenBSD (Barcelona) ftp://mirror.cdmon.com/pub/OpenBSD (Barcelona) Sweden: http://ftp.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD (Stockholm) ftp://ftp.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD (Stockholm) Switzerland: http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/pub/OpenBSD (Zurich) ftp://mirror.switch.ch/pub/OpenBSD (Zurich) http://ftp.ch.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD (Zurich) ftp://ftp.ch.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD (Zurich) Turkey: ftp://ftp.ulak.net.tr/pub/OpenBSD United Kingdom: http://www.mirrorservice.org/pub/OpenBSD (Kent) ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/pub/OpenBSD (Kent) http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/OpenBSD (Manchester) ftp://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/OpenBSD (Manchester) http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/pub/OpenBSD (Oxford) ftp://mirror.ox.ac.uk/pub/OpenBSD (Oxford) USA: http://ftp5.usa.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD (Redwood City, CA) ftp://ftp5.usa.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD (Redwood City, CA) http://ftp3.usa.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD (Boulder, CO) ftp://ftp3.usa.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD (Boulder, CO) http://mirror.team-cymru.org/pub/OpenBSD (Chicago, IL) ftp://mirror.team-cymru.org/pub/OpenBSD (Chicago, IL) http://mirror.planetunix.net/pub/OpenBSD (Chicago, IL) ftp://mirror.planetunix.net/pub/OpenBSD (Chicago, IL) http://filedump.se.rit.edu/pub/OpenBSD (Rochester, NY) ftp://filedump.se.rit.edu/pub/OpenBSD (Rochester, NY) http://openbsd.mirrors.hoobly.com (Pittsburgh, PA) http://mirror.ece.vt.edu/pub/OpenBSD (Blacksburg, VA) http://mirror.servihoo.net/pub/OpenBSD (Kansas City, MO) http://openbsd.mirrors.pair.com (Pittsburgh, PA) ftp://openbsd.mirrors.pair.com (Pittsburgh, PA) http://mirrors.gigenet.com/pub/OpenBSD (Arlington Heights, IL) ftp://mirrors.gigenet.com/pub/OpenBSD (Arlington Heights, IL) http://mirror.esc7.net/pub/OpenBSD (Dallas, TX) ftp://mirror.esc7.net/pub/OpenBSD (Dallas, TX) http://openbsd.mirrorcatalogs.com/pub/OpenBSD (Denver, CO) http://mirrors.nycbug.org/pub/OpenBSD (New York City, NY) ftp://mirrors.nycbug.org/pub/OpenBSD (New York City, NY) http://mirrors.syringanetworks.net/pub/OpenBSD (Boise, ID) ftp://mirrors.syringanetworks.net/pub/OpenBSD (Boise, ID) http://mirror.jmu.edu/pub/OpenBSD (Harrisonburg, VA) ftp://mirror.jmu.edu/pub/OpenBSD (Harrisonburg, VA) Additionally, the file ftp://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/ftplist contains a list which is continually updated. If you wish to become a distribution site for OpenBSD, contact <www@OpenBSD.org>. OpenBSD 5.3 Release Contents: ----------------------------- The OpenBSD 5.3 release is organized in the following way. In the .../5.3 directory, for each of the architectures having an OpenBSD 5.3 binary distribution, there is a sub-directory. The macppc-specific portion of the OpenBSD 5.3 release is found in the "macppc" subdirectory of the distribution. That subdirectory is laid out as follows: .../5.3/macppc/ INSTALL.macppc Installation notes; this file. SHA256 Output of the sum(1) program using the option -a sha256, usable for verification of the correctness of downloaded files. *.tgz macppc binary distribution sets; see below. bsd A stock GENERIC macppc kernel which will be installed on your system during the install. bsd.mp A stock GENERIC.MP macppc kernel, with support for multiprocessor machines, which can be used instead of the GENERIC kernel after the install. bsd.rd A compressed RAMDISK kernel; the embedded filesystem contains the installation tools. Used for simple installation from a pre-existing system. install53.iso The macppc boot and installation CD-ROM image, which contains the base and X sets, so that install or upgrade can be done without network connectivity. cd53.iso A simple bootable filesystem image consisting of the bsd.rd installation kernel, suitable to be used as a bootable CD-ROM image, but will require the base and X sets be found via another media or network. ofwboot The OpenBSD/macppc secondary boot loader. The OpenBSD/macppc binary distribution sets contain the binaries which comprise the OpenBSD 5.3 release for macppc systems. There are ten binary distribution sets. The binary distribution sets can be found in the "macppc" subdirectory of the OpenBSD 5.3 distribution tree, and are as follows: base53 The OpenBSD/macppc 5.3 base binary distribution. You MUST install this distribution set. It contains the base OpenBSD utilities that are necessary for the system to run and be minimally functional. It includes shared library support, and excludes everything described below. [ 62.3 MB gzipped, 182.4 MB uncompressed ] comp53 The OpenBSD/macppc Compiler tools. All of the tools relating to C, C++ and Objective-C are supported. This set includes the system include files (/usr/include), the linker, the compiler tool chain, and the various system libraries (except the shared libraries, which are included as part of the base set). This set also includes the manual pages for all of the utilities it contains, as well as the system call and library manual pages. [ 51.2 MB gzipped, 145.8 MB uncompressed ] etc53 This distribution set contains the system configuration files that reside in /etc and in several other places. This set MUST be installed if you are installing the system from scratch, but should NOT be used if you are upgrading. (If you are upgrading, it's recommended that you get a copy of this set and CAREFULLY upgrade your configuration files by hand; see the section named Upgrading a previously-installed OpenBSD System" below.) [ 511.0 KB gzipped, 1.5 MB uncompressed ] game53 This set includes the games and their manual pages. [ 2.5 MB gzipped, 5.8 MB uncompressed ] man53 This set includes all of the manual pages for the binaries and other software contained in the base set. Note that it does not include any of the manual pages that are included in the other sets. [ 9.2 MB gzipped, 35.7 MB uncompressed ] xbase53 This set includes the base X distribution. This includes programs, headers and libraries. [ 10.5 MB gzipped, 28.1 MB uncompressed ] xetc53 This set includes the X window system configuration files that reside in /etc. It's the equivalent of etc53 for X. [ 62.2 KB gzipped, 253.2 KB uncompressed ] xfont53 This set includes all of the X fonts. [ 37.9 MB gzipped, 49.5 MB uncompressed ] xserv53 This set includes all of the X servers. [ 15.3 MB gzipped, 40.5 MB uncompressed ] xshare53 This set includes all text files equivalent between all architectures. [ 4.1 MB gzipped, 24.2 MB uncompressed ] OpenBSD System Requirements and Supported Devices: -------------------------------------------------- OpenBSD/macppc 5.3 runs on iMac, G4 Power Macintosh, and G4 Cube, as well as PowerBook and iBook machines. Machines with older firmware: 6xxx, 7xxx, 8xxx, and 9xxx machines are not supported. PowerMac G3 Beige status is unknown. OpenBSD/macppc has been tested on iMac Revs A-C as well as on iMac DV(+) machines, Power Macintosh G4 systems (single and dual processor), as well as the G4 Cube, B&W G3, LCD iMac, Mac mini, iMac G5, PowerMac G5 and Xserve G5. For portables, PowerBook G3, PowerBook G4 (12", 15", 17"), iBook, iBook2 and iBook G4 have been tested. Note that power saving features on portables are very limited, limited power management features are available, suspend/sleep is not supported. However battery level and status charging/AC connected/AC disconnected is supported via an APM emulation layer. Supported devices include: IDE hard disk controllers Onboard controllers (wdc_obio) Onboard ATA100 controllers (kauaiata) PCI controllers (pciide) SCSI host adapters Adaptec AIC-7770, AIC-7850, AIC-7860, AIC-7870, AIC-7880, AIC-7890, AIC-7891, AIC-7892, AIC-7895, AIC-7896, AIC-7897 and AIC-7899 based host adapters (ahc), including the Adaptec cards AHA-274X[W,T] AHA-284X AHA-2910, AHA-2915 AHA-2920 AHA-2930[C,U2] AHA-2940[J,N,U,AU,UW,UW Dual,UW Pro,U2W,U2B] AHA-2950[U2W,U2B] AHA-3940[U,AU,UW,AUW,U2W] AHA-3950U2 AHA-3960 AHA-3985 AHA-4944UW AHA-19160B AHA-29160[B,N] AHA-39160 Symbios Logic (NCR) 53C8xx-based PCI SCSI host adapters (53c810 and 53c825) (siop) AMD Am53c974 PCscsi-PCI host adapters including the Tekram DC-390 (pcscp) QLogic PCI SCSI controllers (isp) RAID controllers Adaptec SCSI RAID (I2O) controllers (ASR-2100S, ASR-3200S, etc) (iop) AGP/SVGA/VGA Display Adapters Primary Open Firmware display only The following cards will run an accelerated X server: - ATI Mach64 GP - ATI Mach64 GV - ATI Mach64 128 PK - ATI Mach64 128 VR AGP - ATI Rage 128 Mobility M3 - ATI Rage Fury AGP4x - ATI Radeon Mobility M7 - ATI Radeon Mobility 9200 (M9+) - NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go 64M Serial ports Built-in Zilog 8530-based serial ports (zs) Internal non-USB modems. Most modems, digital cellular modems, and serial cards attached through PC-Cards should work (com) Ethernet adapters Onboard Older iMac 10-100Mbs (bm) Ethernet Onboard G4/PowerBook/Newer iMac (gem) Ethernet 3Com 3c9xx EtherLink XL adapters (xl), including: 3Com 3c900/3c900B PCI adapters 3Com 3c905/3c905B/3c905C PCI adapters 3Com 3c980/3c980C server adapters 3Com 3cSOHO adapter 3Com 3c900B-FL and 3c900B-FL/FX fiber optic adapters 3Com 3c555/3c556/3c556B MiniPCI adapters ADMtek AN986-based USB adapters (aue), including: 3Com 3c460b Abocom UFE1000 Abocom DSB650TX Accton USB320-EC Accton SpeedStream Ethernet Admtek Pegasus Admtek Pegasus II AEI USB Fast Ethernet Allied Telesyn AT-USB100 ATEN UC-110T Belkin USB to LAN Billionton Systems USB100 Billionton Systems USB100EL Billionton Systems USB100LP Billionton Systems USBE100 Corega FEther USB-TX Corega FEther USB-TXS D-Link DSB-650 D-Link DSB-650TX D-Link DSB-650TX-PNA ELCON Systemtechnik Goldpfeil P-LAN Elecom LD-USB/TX Elecom LD-USBL/TX Elsa Microlink USB2Ethernet GIGABYTE GN-BR402W Hawking UF100 HP HN210E I/O DATA USB ETTX Kingston KNU101TX Laneed LD-USBL/TX Linksys USB100TX Linksys USB100H1 Linksys USB10T Linksys USB10TA Linksys USB10TX Melco Inc. LUA-TX Melco Inc. LUA2-TX Microsoft MN110 Mobility EasiDock Ethernet Netgear FA101 Omnidirectional Control Technology USB TO Ethernet Siemens SpeedStream USB Smartbridges smartNIC 2 SMC 2202USB/ETH SMC 2206USB/ETH SOHOware NUB100 SOHOware NUB110 Alteon Tigon I/II PCI Gigabit Ethernet boards (ti), including: 3Com 3c985 and 3c985B Alteon ACEnic V (fiber and copper) Digital EtherWORKS 1000SX Farallon PN9000SX Netgear GA620 and GA620T SGI Tigon ASIX Electronics AX88172/AX88178/AX88772 USB Ethernet adapters (axe), including: ATEN UC210T BAFO BF-320 Billionton Systems USB2AR Buffalo(MELCO) LUA-U2-KTX Corega FEther USB2-TX D-Link DUB-E100 Good Way GWUSB2E Hawking UF200 Intellinet USB 2.0 to Ethernet (rev A) IO-Data ETG-US2 JVC MP-PRX1 Level One USB-0200 Linksys USB200M Netgear FA120 Nintendo Wii USB Lan Ethernet Adapter RVL-015 OQO model 01+ Ethernet Sitecom LN-029 SMC 2209USB/ETH SnapPort USB 2.0 LAN Adapter ST Lab USB 2.0 Fast Ethernet Surecom EP-1427X-2 System TALKS SGC-X2UL TRENDnet TU2-ET100 Z-TEK ZK-R01-2 Broadcom BCM570x (Tigon3) based PCI adapters (bge), including: 3Com 3c996-T 3Com 3c996-SX 3Com 3c996B-T Netgear GA302T SysKonnect SK-9D21 SysKonnect SK-9D41 CATC USB-EL1210A-based USB adapters (cue), including: Belkin F5U111 CATC Netmate CATC Netmate II SmartBridges SmartLink Davicom DM9601 USB Ethernet adapters (udav), including: Corega FEther USB-TXC HenTong WK-668 ShanTou ST268 Digital DC21x4x-based PCI Ethernet adapters (de), including: Znyx ZX34X Digital DC21x43 clone-based PCI Ethernet adapters (dc) HME PCI Fast Ethernet (hme) HME PCI Quad Fast Ethernet (hme) Intel 21145-based PCI Ethernet adapters (dc) Intel i8255x-based (except the i82556) PCI adapters (fxp), including: Intel EtherExpress PRO/10+ Intel EtherExpress PRO/100, PRO/100B, and PRO/100+ Intel EtherExpress PRO/100+ "Management Adapter" Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 Dual Port Intel PRO/100 VE, PRO/100 VM, and PRO/100 S Intel i82540, i82541, i82542, i82543, i82544, i82545, i82546, i82547, i82571, i82572 and i82573 based adapters (em), including: HP ProLiant NC310F PCI-X Gigabit NIC (SX Fiber) HP ProLiant NC340T PCI-X Gigabit NIC HP ProLiant NC360T PCI Express Dual Port Gigabit NIC HP ProLiant NC6132 Upgrade Module (SX Fiber) HP ProLiant NC6133 Upgrade Module (LX Fiber) HP ProLiant NC6134 PCI Gigabit NIC (SX Fiber) HP ProLiant NC6136 PCI Gigabit NIC (SX Fiber) HP ProLiant NC6170 PCI-X Gigabit NIC (SX Fiber) HP ProLiant NC7131 PCI Gigabit NIC HP ProLiant NC7132 Upgrade Module HP ProLiant NC7170 PCI-X Dual Port Gigabit NIC HP ProLiant NC7170LP PCI-X Dual Port Gigabit NIC Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit Server Adapter (SX Fiber) (PWLA8490) Intel PRO/1000F Gigabit Server Adapter (SX Fiber) (PWLA8490SX) Intel PRO/1000T Server Adapter (PWLA8490T) Intel PRO/1000XT Server Adapter (PWLA8490XT) Intel PRO/1000XS Server Adapter (SX Fiber) (PWLA8490XF) Intel PRO/1000T Desktop Adapter (PWLA8390T) Intel PRO/1000XTL Lo Profile PCI Server (PWLA8490XTL) Intel PRO/1000MT Desktop Adapter (PWLA8390MT) Intel PRO/1000MT Server Adapter (PWLA8490MT) Intel PRO/1000MT Dual Port Server Adapter (PWLA8492MT) Intel PRO/1000MF Server Adapter (SX Fiber) (PWLA8490MF) Intel PRO/1000MF Dual Port Server Adapter (SX Fiber) (PWLA8492MF) Intel PRO/1000MF Server Adapter (LX Fiber) (PWLA8490LX) Intel PRO/1000MT Quad PCI-X Adapter (PWLA8494MT) Intel PRO/1000GT Quad PCI-X Adapter (PWLA8494GT) Intel PRO/1000PT Desktop Adapter Intel PRO/1000PT Server Adapter Intel PRO/1000PT Dual Port Server Adapter Intel PRO/1000PT Quad Port Server Adapter Intel PRO/1000PF Server Adapter (SX Fiber) Intel PRO/1000PF Dual Port Server Adapter (SX Fiber) Kawasaki LSI KL5KUSB101B-based USB adapters (kue), including: 3Com 3c19250 3Com 3c460 HomeConnect AboCom Systems URE450 Ethernet ADS Technologies USB-10BT Aox USB101 Asante USB to Ethernet ATen DSB-650C ATen UC10T Corega USB-T D-Link DSB-650C Entrega NET-USB-E45 I/O Data USB-ET/T Jaton USB XpressNet Kawasaki USB101 Kingston Ethernet Linksys USB10T Mobility Ethernet Netgear EA101 Peracom USB Portgear Ethernet Portsmith Express Ethernet Psion Dacom Gold Port Ethernet Shark Pocket Adapter Silicom U2E SMC 2102USB SMC 2104USB Realtek RTL8150L based USB adapters (url), including: Abocom RTL8151 BAFO BF-310 Billionton USBKR-100 Compex UE202-B GreenHouse GH-USB100B GreenHouse GH-USB100B with HomePNA Hawking Technology HUF11 Linksys USB100M Longshine LCS-8138TX Melco Inc. LUA-KTX Micronet SP128AR NetComm NP1010 Repotec RP-USB100-A SMC 2208USB/ETH TRENDnet TU-ET100C Zt USB10/100 Z-TEK ZK-R02 RealTek 8129/8139-based adapters (rl), including: Accton MPX 5030/5038 Allied Telesyn AT2550 D-Link DFE530TX+ D-Link DFE538TX Encore ENL832-TX-RENT 10/100 M PCI Genius GF100TXR KTX-9130TX 10/100 Fast Ethernet Longshine LCS-8038TX-R NDC NE100TX-E Netgear FA311 v2 Netronix EA-1210 Net Ether 10/100 Nortel BayStack 21 OvisLink LEF-8129TX, LEF-8139TX SMC EZ Card 10/100 PCI 1211-TX Realtek 8169/8169S/8110S based PCI adapters, including: Buffalo LGY-PCI-GT (8169S) Corega CG-LAPCIGT (8169S) D-Link DGE-528T (8169S) Gigabyte 7N400 Pro2 Integrated Gigabit Ethernet (8110S) LevelOne GNC-0105T (8169S) Linksys EG1032v3 (8169S) Netgear GA311 (8169S) Netgear GA511 PC Card (8169) PLANEX COMMUNICATIONS Inc. GN-1200TC (8169S) Surecom EP-320G-TX1 (8169S) US Robotics USR997902 (8169S) Xterasys XN-152 10/100/1000 NIC (8169) VIA Networking VT6122 based PCI adapters, including: ZyXEL GN650-T 64-bit PCI Gigabit Ethernet NIC (ZX1701) ZyXEL GN670-T 32-bit PCI Gigabit Ethernet NIC (ZX1702) VIA Rhine/RhineII/RhineIII Ethernet adapters, including: Addtron AEF-360TX Hawking PN102TX D-Link DFE530TX AMD PCnet-based PCI adapters (pcn), including: BOCALANcard/PCI AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, and StarLAN Fiber Wireless Ethernet Adapters ADMtek ADM8211 IEEE 802.11b PCI adapters Aironet Communications 4500/4800 IEEE 802.11FH/b PCI and PCMCIA adapters Atmel AT76C50x IEEE 802.11b USB adapters Broadcom AirForce IEEE 802.11b/g PCI/CardBus adapters Broadcom AirForce IEEE 802.11b/g PCI adapters Marvell Libertas IEEE 802.11b/g PCI/CardBus adapters Marvell Libertas IEEE 802.11b/g Compact Flash adapters (will be detected as PCMCIA adapters) Ralink Technology IEEE 802.11a/b/g PCI adapters Ralink Technology IEEE 802.11b/g USB adapters Ralink Technology USB IEEE 802.11a/b/g USB adapters Ralink Technology USB IEEE 802.11a/b/g/Draft-N USB adapters Realtek RTL8180L IEEE 802.11b CardBus adapters TI ACX100/ACX111 IEEE 802.11a/b/g CardBus adapters TI ACX100/ACX111 IEEE 802.11a/b/g PCI adapters WaveLAN/IEEE, PRISM 2-3, and Spectrum24 IEEE 802.11b Compact Flash adapters (will be detected as PCMCIA adapters) WaveLAN/IEEE, PRISM 2-3, and Spectrum24 IEEE 802.11b PCI adapters WaveLAN/IEEE, PRISM 2-3, and Spectrum24 IEEE 802.11b PCMCIA adapters WaveLAN/IEEE, PRISM 2-3, and Spectrum24 IEEE 802.11b USB adapters Tape drives SCSI Tape drives (st) CD-ROM drives (cd) SCSI CD-ROM drives SCSI CD-RW drives Atapi CD-ROM drives Atapi DVD-ROM drives Atapi DVD-RAM drives (read-only) Atapi DVD-RW drives (read-only?) Atapi CD-RW drives Keyboards ADB (akbd) and USB (ukbd) keyboards Mice USB Mice (ums) ADB trackpads (ams) Sound Cards AWACS audio (awacs) Ensoniq AudioPCI (eap) Snapper audio found on recent iBook (since May02) and PowerBook (since Apr02) models (need to verify iMac (Jan 02) and Power Mac G4 (Sep 02)) (snapper) USB audio (uaudio) Radio Receiver Devices Brooktree 848/849/878/879-based TV tuner (bktr) Miscellaneous USB Hubs USB printers (ulpt) USB Zip drives (umass) Brooktree 8[47][89] based frame grabber and TV tuner cards, including (bktr): Animation Technologies FlyVideo AOpen VA1000 Askey/Dynalink Magic TView ATI TV-Wonder and Wonder/VE AverMedia cards Hauppauge Wincast TV and WinTV/PCI IMS TV Turbo Intel Smart Video Recorder III I/O DATA GV-BCTV2/PCI I/O DATA GV-BCTV3/PCI KISS TV/FM PCI Leadtek Winfast TV 2000 Leadtek Winfast TV 2000 XP Miro PC TV MMAC Osprey NEC PK-UG-X017 STB TV PCI Television Tuner Terratec TerraTVplus Video Highway XTreme VideoLogic Captivator PCI Zoltrix TV and Genie TV/FM Hardware monitoring sensors, including: Analog Devices AD7416, AD7417 and AD7418 (adc) Analog Devices ADM1030 (admtmp) Analog Devices ADT7460 (adt) Apple Fan Control Unit (fcu) Apple Sudden Motion Sensor (asms) National Semiconductor LM75, LM77 (lmtemp) National Semiconductor LM87 (lmenv) Maxim DS1624/DS1631/DS1721 (maxds) Maxim MAX6642/MAX6690 (maxtmp) TAOS TSL2560/61 light sensor (tsl) Hardware watchdog timer support Quancom PWDOG1 (pwdog) Meinberg Funkuhren radio clocks, including: GPS170PCI 3.3V/5V 6-channel GPS receiver card PCI32 5V DCF77 time signal station receiver card PCI509 5V DCF77 time signal station receiver card PCI511 3.3V/5V DCF77 time signal station receiver card USB5131 USB attached DCF77 radio clock Cryptography Accelerators Hifn 6500 (lofn) Hifn 7751/7811/7951/7955/7956/9751 (hifn) Bluesteelnet 5501/5601 (ubsec) Broadcom 5801/5802/5805/5820/5821/5822/5823 (ubsec) SafeNet SafeXcel 1141/1741 (safe) The following devices are not supported currently: - built-in Texas Instrument TSB12LV23 firewire (IEEE1394) ports - built-in USB modems Getting the OpenBSD System onto Useful Media: --------------------------------------------- Installation is supported from several media types, including: CD-ROM FFS partitions HFS partitions (bootloader/kernel only, using another media for d/l) Tape Remote NFS partition FTP HTTP The steps necessary to prepare the distribution sets for installation depend on which method of installation you choose. Some methods require a bit of setup first that is explained below. The installation allows installing OpenBSD directly from FTP mirror sites over the internet, however you must consider the speed and reliability of your internet connection for this option. It may save much time and frustration to use ftp get/reget to transfer the distribution sets to a local server or disk and perform the installation from there, rather than directly from the internet. The variety of options listed may seem confusing, but situations vary widely in terms of what peripherals and what sort of network arrangements a user has, the intent is to provide some way that will be practical. OpenBSD can now be booted from a CD-ROM by holding down the 'c' key during reboot. If ofwboot and bsd.rd are copied to an HFS partition, it is possible to boot from those files. Then install the rest of the files from any of the above sources. Note: once an OpenBSD partition exists, it is not possible to load the kernel (bsd.rd) from an HFS partition on that disk. Creating an installation tape: While you won't be able to boot OpenBSD from a tape, you can use one to provide the installation sets. To do so, you need to make a tape that contains the distribution set files, each in "tar" format or in "gzipped tar format". First you will need to transfer the distribution sets to your local system, using ftp or by mounting the CD-ROM containing the release. Then you need to make a tape containing the files. If you're making the tape on a UN*X-like system, the easiest way to do so is make a shell script along the following lines, call it "/tmp/maketape". #! /bin/sh TAPE=${TAPE:-/dev/nrst0} mt -f ${TAPE} rewind for file in base etc comp game man xbase xetc xfont xserv xshare do dd if=${file}53.tgz of=${TAPE} obs=8k conv=osync done tar cf ${TAPE} bsd mt -f ${TAPE} offline # end of script And then: cd .../5.3/macppc sh -x /tmp/maketape If you're using a system other than OpenBSD or SunOS, the tape name and other requirements may change. You can override the default device name (/dev/nrst0) with the TAPE environment variable. For example, under Solaris, you would probably run: TAPE=/dev/rmt/0n sh -x /tmp/maketape Note that, when installing, the tape can be write-protected (i.e. read-only). To install OpenBSD using a remote partition, mounted via NFS, you must do the following: NOTE: This method of installation is recommended only for those already familiar with using BSD network configuration and management commands. If you aren't, this documentation should help, but is not intended to be all-encompassing. Place the OpenBSD distribution sets you wish to install into a directory on an NFS server, and make that directory mountable by the machine on which you are installing or upgrading OpenBSD. This will probably require modifying the /etc/exports file of the NFS server and resetting its mount daemon (mountd). (Both of these actions will probably require superuser privileges on the server.) You need to know the numeric IP address of the NFS server, and, if the server is not on a network directly connected to the machine on which you're installing or upgrading OpenBSD, you need to know the numeric IP address of the router closest to the OpenBSD machine. Finally, you need to know the numeric IP address of the OpenBSD machine itself. Once the NFS server is set up properly and you have the information mentioned above, you can proceed to the next step in the installation or upgrade process. If you are upgrading OpenBSD, you also have the option of installing OpenBSD by putting the new distribution sets somewhere in your existing file system, and using them from there. To do that, do the following: Place the distribution sets you wish to upgrade somewhere in your current file system tree. At a bare minimum, you must upgrade the "base" binary distribution, and so must put the "base53" set somewhere in your file system. It is recommended that you upgrade the other sets, as well. Preparing your System for OpenBSD Installation: ----------------------------------------------- To be able to boot the OpenBSD/macppc installation program, you will need to acquire some limited knowledge of Open Firmware, the low-level process that controls the microprocessor after hardware initialization and diagnostics are performed but before control is handed to the operating system. To access Open Firmware, you should simultaneously hold down the Command, Option, O, and F keys immediately upon booting. You will be presented with information and a ">" prompt that will look something like this (example taken from a Power Macintosh G4): Apple PowerMac3,1 2.4f1 BootROM built on 02/18/00 at 09:44:35 Copyright 1994-2000 Apple Computer, Inc. All Rights Reserved Welcome to Open Firmware To continue booting, type "mac-boot" and press return To shut down, type "shut-down" and press return ok 0 > If you are installing OpenBSD/macppc on an Xserve, you will need to do so in headless mode. This means you must remove the graphics card and use the serial console. To bring up Open Firmware via the serial console, hold down the System Identifier button while pressing the Power button. When the upper LED bank begins lighting up in sequence (similar to KITT from Knight Rider), repeatedly press the System Identifier button until the seventh LED from the right is highlighted on the lower bank. Now hold the System Identifier button for two seconds. For more details, read: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75489 Important Open Firmware command examples: boot cd:,ofwboot /5.3/macppc/bsd.rd (boot from an appropriately prepared OpenBSD CD-ROM in the CD/DVD drive) boot enet:,ofwboot /bsd.rd (netboot from a pre-configured dhcp/tftp/nfs server; "ofwboot" will be obtained from the tftp server, while "bsd.rd" will be obtained from the NFS server, as specified by the "next-server" and "root-path" dhcp options) boot ide1:,ofwboot /bsd (After installation, boot /bsd from the slave device on the second ATA bus) mac-boot (boot into Mac OS) reset-all (reboot the machine) shut-down (halt the machine; shutdown) printenv (print current machine variables) setenv (set a machine variable) devalias (list device aliases; useful for locating other devices in the machine such as hard drives, etc) As seen above, device aliases typically take the form of "ide", "cd", etc. To boot to an alternative device, you may substitute them with entries from this list (example devices taken from a Power Macintosh G4): ultra0 = hd = master device, primary ATA bus (factory-installed drive) ultra1 = slave device, primary ATA bus ide0 = cd = master device, secondary ATA bus (CD/DVD drive) ide1 = slave device, secondary ATA bus (Zip drive, if installed) enet = motherboard Ethernet device Other Open Firmware command examples: setenv auto-boot? false (force the machine to wait at Open Firmware for user input at next reboot; options are true/false) setenv boot-device hd:,ofwboot (force the machine to boot into OpenBSD automatically at next reboot) dev / (change to root level of the device tree) pwd (show current location in the device tree) ls (show items at current location in the device tree) words (show methods of items at current location in the device tree) .properties (show properties of items at current location in the device tree) To reset a Power Macintosh to the factory-configured Open Firmware settings, simultaneously hold down the Command, Option, P, and R keys immediately upon booting. Typically the machine will then attempt to load Mac OS, if available. Autobooting OpenBSD/macppc It is possible to automatically boot into OpenBSD (selectably into Mac OS) by setting up the following: setenv auto-boot? true setenv boot-device hd:,ofwboot [to save the results into NVRAM] reset-all These settings assume that the master of the first IDE bus has OpenBSD installed on it, either in MBR format or in shared mode with ofwboot copied into the first HFS(+) partition. It is not necessary to specify '/bsd' on the boot line or in the boot-device variable, since it is the default. To boot in Mac OS with this setup (works on most supported machines), press and hold down the Alt/Option key during reboot, and select which (Mac OS/Mac OS X) partition to boot in the graphical boot selector presented. Note that OpenBSD does not currently show up in this boot selector except for the installation CD-ROM. This works on most machines this has been tested with, but does not work on a Rev C (333MHz) iMac; perhaps this feature was added to the Open Firmware ROM after that machine. Sharing a disk with Mac OS: OpenBSD/macppc is capable of booting either from a dedicated disk using an MBR partitioned disk or sharing a disk with Mac OS. If the disk is to be shared between Mac OS and OpenBSD, it is necessary to reformat and install the Mac OS partitions first, using "Drive Setup", leaving space on the disk as an "Unused" partition. If the disk was previously partitioned, it is possible to reuse a partition for OpenBSD, as long as it is not the first partition on the disk. The bootloader is expected to be found in that first (HFS) partition. For dedicated disks, macppc port boots off a boot program in an MSDOS filesystem. This is set up by the install program and no special setup is required. Installing the OpenBSD System: ------------------------------ Installing OpenBSD is a relatively complex process, but if you have this document in hand and are careful to read and remember the information which is presented to you by the install program, it shouldn't be too much trouble. Before you begin, you should decide if OpenBSD is to be installed on the whole disk or share the disk with Mac OS. For stand-alone (No Mac OS installed) or dedicated disks, the MBR installation method should be chosen and no additional prep is necessary. If the disk is to be shared with Mac OS, a partition must be preallocated by the Mac OS partition editor and Mac OS installed to the proper partition. This expects that the HFS partition will be the first partition on the disk, and then the OpenBSD partition will follow. This may require the disk be reformatted using the "Drive Setup" application and reinstalled under Mac OS. You should now be ready to install OpenBSD. The following is a walk-through of the steps you will take while getting OpenBSD installed on your hard disk. The installation procedure is designed to gather as many information about your system setup as possible at the beginning, so that no human interaction is required as soon as the questions are over. The order of these questions might be quite disconcerting if you are used to other installation procedures, including older OpenBSD versions. If any question has a default answer, it will be displayed in brackets ("[]") after the question. If you wish to stop the installation, you may hit Control-C at any time, but if you do, you'll have to begin the installation process again from scratch. Using Control-Z to suspend the process may be a better option, or at any prompt enter `!' to get a shell, from which 'exit' will return you back to that prompt (no refresh of the prompt will occur, though). At this time, the system can be installed from the supplied CD-ROM boot image, by network loading the bootloader, or loading the bootloader and kernel from an HFS partition. Once the bootloader is installed on the local hard drive, the system can boot from it. OpenBSD may share a drive with Mac OS if the process is followed carefully. Currently it is necessary to use Open Firmware commands to dual boot between OS's, or multiple drives may be used with each OS owning drive(s). It is also possible on some newer models to set up the system to auto boot OpenBSD and if Mac OS is desired, choose it using the firmware boot selector by holding down the <option> key during reboot and selecting the Mac OS Disk icon. (Refer to "Preparing your System for OpenBSD Installation" above for information on how to access and boot from Open Firmware.) Once the kernel has loaded, you will be presented with the OpenBSD kernel boot messages. You will want to read them to determine your disks name and geometry. Its name will be something like "wd0". You will also need to know the device name to tell the install tools what disk to install on. If you cannot read the messages as they scroll by, do not worry -- you can get at this information later inside the install program. After the kernel is done initialization, you will be asked whether you wish to do an "(I)nstall" or an "(U)pgrade". Enter 'I' for a fresh install or 'U' to upgrade an existing installation. If you are connected with a serial console, you will next be asked for your terminal type. You should choose the terminal type from amongst those listed. (If your terminal type is xterm, just use vt220). The first question you will be asked is the system hostname. Reply with the name of the system, without any domain part. You will now be given an opportunity to configure the network. The network configuration you enter (if any) can then be used to do the install from another system using HTTP or FTP, and will also be the configuration used by the system after the installation is complete. The install program will give you a list of network interfaces you can configure. For each network interface you select to configure, you will be asked for: - the symbolic host name to use (except for the first interface setup, which will reuse the host name entered at the beginning of the installation). - the IPv4 settings: address and netmask. If the IP address should be obtained from a DHCP server, simply enter ``dhcp'' when asked for the address. - the IPv6 settings (address, prefix length, and default router). You may enter ``rtsol'' when asked for the address for the interface to configure automatically via router solicitation messages. After all interfaces have been configured, if there have been any IPv4 interfaces setup, you will be asked for the IPv4 default route. This step is skipped if you only have one IPv4 interface setup, and it is configured with DHCP. The install program will also ask you for your DNS domain name, and the domain name servers, unless this information has already been obtained from a DHCP server during interface setup. You will also be presented with an opportunity to do more manual configuration. If you accept, you will be dropped to a shell; when you are done, enter `exit' to return to the installation program. You will then be asked to enter the initial root password of the system, twice. Although the install program will only check that the two passwords match, you should make sure to use a strong password. As a minimum, the password should be at least eight characters long and a mixture of both lower and uppercase letters, numbers and punctuation characters. You will then be asked whether you want to start sshd(8) by default, as well as ntpd(8). If you choose to start ntpd(8), you will be asked for your ntp server; if you don't have any preferred ntp server, press enter to confirm the default setting of using the pool.ntp.org servers. You will next be asked whether you intend to run the X Window System on your machine. The install program needs to know this, to change a configuration setting controlling whether the X server will be able to access the xf86(4) driver; it is not necessary to answer `y' to this question if you only intend to run X client programs on a remote display. If you are installing using a serial console, and since by default, the OpenBSD/macppc installation will only start terminals on the primary display device, the installation program will ask you whether you want to also enable an additional terminal on that line, and will allow you to select the line speed. You will now be given the possibility to setup a user account on the forthcoming system. This user will be added to the `wheel' group. Enter the desired login name, or `n' if you do not want to add a user account at this point. Valid login names are sequences of digits and lowercase letters, and must start with a lowercase letter. If the login name matches this criteria, and doesn't conflict with any of the administrative user accounts (such as `root', `daemon' or `ftp'), you will be prompted with the users descriptive name, as well as its password, twice. As for the root password earlier, the install program will only check that the two passwords match, but you should make sure to use a strong password here as well. If you have chosen to setup a user account, and you had chosen to start sshd(8) on boot, you will be given the possibility to disable sshd(8) logins as root. You may now be given the opportunity to configure the time zone your system will be using (this depends on the installation media you are using). If the installation program skips this question, do not be alarmed, the time zone will be configured at the end of the installation. The installation program will now tell you which disks it can install on, and ask you which it should use. Reply with the name of your root disk. You will the be asked if you want to use DUID notation in /etc/fstab, instead of traditional device names. You are strongly advised to use DUIDs, as they allow you to move your disks to different controllers, or change their bus identifiers, without having to modify /etc/fstab every time your configuration changes. Disks on OpenBSD/macppc are partitioned either using Apple-style HFS partitions, or MBR partitions. OpenBSD/macppc can share a disk with Mac OS or Mac OS X by using an HFS partitioned disk. For proper layout, the disk should be partitioned with Mac OS or Mac OS X first with unused space or a spare partition where OpenBSD can be installed. The installation program will ask you whether you intend to use HFS or MBR partitions. HFS partitioning: HFS partition tables are edited with pdisk(8). The most common operation, and the example presented here, deals with the conversion of an existing partition into one usable by OpenBSD. Before editing, the partition table may look like the following: #: type name length base ( size ) 1: Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 2: Apple_Driver43*Macintosh 54 @ 64 3: Apple_Driver43*Macintosh 74 @ 118 4: Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh 54 @ 192 5: Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh 74 @ 246 6: Apple_FWDriver Macintosh 200 @ 320 7: Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh 512 @ 520 8: Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 1032 9: Apple_HFS untitled 2142310 @ 1544 ( 1.0G) 10: Apple_HFS untitled 2 4120589 @ 2143854 ( 2.0G) 11: Unused untitled 3 6330517 @ 6264443 ( 3.0G) After editing the table, it should look like: #: type name length base ( size ) 1: Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 2: Apple_Driver43*Macintosh 54 @ 64 3: Apple_Driver43*Macintosh 74 @ 118 4: Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh 54 @ 192 5: Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh 74 @ 246 6: Apple_FWDriver Macintosh 200 @ 320 7: Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh 512 @ 520 8: Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 1032 9: Apple_HFS untitled 2142310 @ 1544 ( 1.0G) 10: Apple_HFS untitled 2 4120589 @ 2143854 ( 2.0G) 11: OpenBSD OpenBSD 6330517 @ 6264443 ( 3.0G) This will likely be different based on the number of partitions created on the disk by the Apple partition editor. It is _VERY_ important to not change the start, sizes, or types of partitions other than the ones that are to be used by OpenBSD, including the Apple_Driver.* and Apple_partition_map. --- Command (? for help): p <output is in the before example above> Command (? for help): t Partition number: 11 Existing partition type ``Unused''. New type of partition: OpenBSD Command (? for help): p <output is in the after example above> --- MBR partitioning: The installation program will ask you if you want to use the whole disk for OpenBSD. If you don't need to or don't intend to share the disk with other operating systems, answer `y' here. The installation program will then create a single MBR partition spanning the whole disk, dedicated to OpenBSD. Otherwise, fdisk(8) will be invoked to let you to edit your MBR partitioning. The current MBR partitions defined will be displayed and you will be allowed to modify them, add new partitions, and change which partition to boot from by default. After your OpenBSD MBR partition has been setup, the real partition setup can follow. Next the disk label which defines the layout of the OpenBSD partitions must be set up. Each file system you want will require a separate partition. You will be proposed a default partition layout, trying to set up separate partitions, disk size permitting. You will be given the possibility to either accept the proposed layout, or edit it, or create your own custom layout. These last two choices will invoke the disklabel(8) interactive editor, allowing you to create your desired layout. Within the editor, you will probably start out with only the 'c' partition of fstype 'unused' that represents the whole disk. This partition can not be modified. If you have DOS or Linux partitions defined on the disk, these will usually show up as partition 'i', 'j' and so on. You must create partition 'a' as a native OpenBSD partition, i.e. one with "4.2BSD" as the fstype, to hold the root file system. In addition to partition 'a' you should create partition 'b' with fstype "swap", and native OpenBSD partitions to hold separate file systems such as /usr, /tmp, /var, and /home. You will need to provide a mount point for all partitions you define. Partitions without mount points, or not of 4.2BSD fstype, will neither be formatted nor mounted during the installation. For quick help while in the interactive editor, enter '?'. The `z' command (which deletes all partitions and starts with a clean label), the `A' command (which performs the automatic partition layout) and the `n' command (to change mount points) are of particular interest. Although the partitions position and size are written in exact sector values, you do not need a calculator to create your partitions! Human-friendly units can be specified by adding `k', `m' or `g' after any numbers to have them converted to kilobytes, megabytes or gigabytes. Or you may specify a percentage of the disk size using `%' as the suffix. Enter 'M' to view the entire manual page (see the info on the ``-E'' flag). To exit the editor enter 'q'. If you chose to use HFS partitioning to share the disk with MacOS, OpenBSD will be unable to install the bootloader into the HFS(+) partition to boot OpenBSD; it will be necessary to copy 'ofwboot' from the installation media into the first HFS(+) partition using Mac OS or Mac OS X. If the disk is partitioned using MBR, the bootloader will be automatically installed if you setup a small (a few MB) MSDOS partition as position `i' in the label. After the layout has been saved, new filesystems will be created on all partitions with mount points. This will DESTROY ALL EXISTING DATA on those partitions. After configuring your root disk, the installer will return to the list of available disks to configure. You can choose the other disks to use with OpenBSD in any order, and will get to setup their layout similarly to the root disk above. However, for non-root disks, you will not be proposed a default partition layout. When all your disks are configured, simply hit return at the disk prompt. After these preparatory steps have been completed, you will be able to extract the distribution sets onto your system. There are several install methods supported: FTP, HTTP, CD-ROM, tape, or a local disk partition. To install via FTP or HTTP: To begin an FTP or HTTP install you will need the following pieces of information: 1) Proxy server URL if you are using a URL-based FTP or HTTP proxy (squid, CERN FTP, Apache 1.2 or higher). You need to define a proxy if you are behind a firewall that blocks outgoing FTP or HTTP connections (assuming you have a proxy available to use). 2) The IP address (or hostname if you configured DNS servers earlier in the install) of an FTP or HTTP server carrying the OpenBSD 5.3 distribution. The installation program will try to fetch a list of such servers; depending on your network settings, this might fail. If the list could be fetched, it will be displayed, and you can choose an entry from the list (the first entries are expected to be the closest mirrors to your location). 3) The directory holding the distribution sets. The default value of pub/OpenBSD/5.3/macppc is almost always correct on FTP servers; for HTTP servers there is no standard location for this. 4) For FTP installs only, the login and password for the FTP account. You will only be asked for a password for non-anonymous FTP. Then refer to the section named "installation set selection" below. To install from CD-ROM: When installing from a CD-ROM, you will be asked which device holds the distribution sets. This will typically be "cd0". If there is more than one partition on the CD-ROM, you will be asked which partition the distribution is to be loaded from. This is normally partition "a". You will also have to provide the relative path to the directory on the CD-ROM which holds the distribution, for the macppc this is "5.3/macppc". Then refer to the section named "installation set selection" below. To install from an NFS mounted directory: When installing from an NFS-mounted directory, you must have completed network configuration above, and also set up the exported file system on the NFS server in advance. First you must identify the IP address of the NFS server to load the distribution from, and the file system the server expects you to mount. The install program will also ask whether or not TCP should be used for transport (the default is UDP). Note that TCP only works with newer NFS servers. You will also have to provide the relative path to the directory on the file system where the distribution sets are located. Note that this path should not be prefixed with a '/'. Then refer to the section named "installation set selection" below. To install from a local disk partition: When installing from a local disk partition, you will first have to identify which disk holds the distribution sets. This is normally "sdN", where N is a number. Next you will have to identify the partition within that disk that holds the distribution; this is a single letter between 'a' and 'p'. You will also have to identify the type of file system residing in the partition identified. Currently, you can install from partitions that have been formatted as the Berkeley fast file system (ffs) or MS-DOS. You will also have to provide the relative path to the directory on the file system where the distribution sets are located. Note that this path should not be prefixed with a '/'. Then refer to the next section. Installation set selection: A list of available distribution sets found on the given location will be listed. You may individually select distribution sets to install, by entering their name, or wildcards (e.g. `*.tgz' or `base*|comp*', or `all' to select all the sets (which is what most users will want to do). You may also enter `abort' to deselect everything and restart the selection from scratch, or unselect sets by entering their name prefixed with `-' (e.g. `-x*'). It is also possible to enter an arbitrary filename and have it treated as a file set. When you are done selecting distribution sets, enter `done'. The files will begin to extract. To install from tape: Unlike all other installation methods, there is no way to know the names of the files on tape. Because of this, it is impossible to check that the files on tape match the machine architecture and release of OpenBSD/macppc. Moreover, since tape filenames are not known, the file checksums can not be verified. Use this installation method only if there is no better option. In order to install from tape, the distribution sets to be installed must have been written to tape previously, either in tar format or gzip-compressed tar format. You will also have to identify the tape device where the distribution sets are to be extracted from. This will typically be "nrst0" (no-rewind, raw interface). Next you will have to specify how many files have to be skipped on the tape. This number is usually zero. The install program will not automatically detect whether an image has been compressed, so it will ask for that information before starting the extraction of each file. After the files have been extracted, you will be given the choice to select a new location from which to install distribution sets. If there have been errors extracting the sets from the previous location, or if some sets have been missing, this allows you to select a better source. Also, if the installation program complains that the distribution sets you have been using do not match their recorded checksums, you might want to check your installation source (although this can happen between releases, if a snapshot is being updated on an FTP or HTTP server with newer files while you are installing). The last thing you might need to configure, if you did not get the chance to earlier, is the time zone your system will be using. For this work properly, it is expected that you have installed at least the "base53", "etc53", and "bsd" distribution sets. The installation program will then proceed to save the system configuration, create all the device nodes needed by the installed system, and will install bootblocks on the root disk. On multiprocessor systems, if the bsd.mp kernel has been installed, it will be renamed to `bsd', which is the default kernel the boot blocks look for. The single processor kernel, `bsd', will be available as `bsd.sp'. Finally, you will be asked whether you would like to install non-free firmware files (which can't be tightly integrated to the OpenBSD system) on first boot, by invoking fw_update(8) on the next boot. Congratulations, you have successfully installed OpenBSD 5.3. When you reboot into OpenBSD, you should log in as "root" at the login prompt. You should create yourself an account and protect it and the "root" account with good passwords. The install program leaves root an initial mail message. We recommend you read it, as it contains answers to basic questions you might have about OpenBSD, such as configuring your system, installing packages, getting more information about OpenBSD, sending in your dmesg output and more. To do this, run mail and then just enter "more 1" to get the first message. You quit mail by entering "q". Some of the files in the OpenBSD 5.3 distribution might need to be tailored for your site. We recommend you run: man afterboot which will tell you about a bunch of the files needing to be reviewed. If you are unfamiliar with UN*X-like system administration, it's recommended that you buy a book that discusses it. Upgrading a previously-installed OpenBSD System: ------------------------------------------------ Warning! Upgrades to OpenBSD 5.3 are currently only supported from the immediately previous release. The upgrade process will also work with older releases, but might not execute some migration tasks that would be necessary for a proper upgrade. The best solution, whenever possible, is to backup your data and reinstall from scratch. As a minimum, if the toolchain (the ``comp'' set) was installed, you should remove all files within /usr/include before attempting to upgrade. To upgrade OpenBSD 5.3 from a previous version, start with the general instructions in the section "Installing OpenBSD". Boot from the CD-ROM. When prompted, select the (U)pgrade option rather than the (I)nstall option at the prompt in the install process. You will be presented with a welcome message and asked if you really wish to upgrade. The upgrade script will ask you for the existing root partition, and will use the existing filesystems defined in /etc/fstab to install the new system in. It will also use your existing network parameters. From then, the upgrade procedure is very close to the installation procedure described earlier in this document. Note that the upgrade procedure will not let you pick neither the ``etc53.tgz'' nor the ``xetc53.tgz'' sets, so as to preserve your files in `/etc' which you are likely to have customized since a previous installation. However, it is strongly advised that you unpack the etc53.tgz and xetc53.tgz sets in a temporary directory and merge changes by hand, or with the help of the sysmerge(8) helper script, since all components of your system may not function correctly until your files in `/etc' are updated. Getting source code for your OpenBSD System: -------------------------------------------- Now that your OpenBSD system is up and running, you probably want to get access to source code so that you can recompile pieces of the system. A few methods are provided. If you have an OpenBSD CD-ROM, the source code is provided. Otherwise, you can get the pieces over the Internet using anonymous CVS, CVSync or FTP. For more information, see http://www.OpenBSD.org/anoncvs.html http://www.OpenBSD.org/cvsync.html http://www.OpenBSD.org/ftp.html Using online OpenBSD documentation: ----------------------------------- Documentation is available if you first install the manual pages distribution set. Traditionally, the UN*X "man pages" (documentation) are denoted by 'name(section)'. Some examples of this are intro(1), man(1), apropos(1), passwd(1), passwd(5) and afterboot(8). The section numbers group the topics into several categories, but three are of primary interest: user commands are in section 1, file formats are in section 5, and administrative information is in section 8. The 'man' command is used to view the documentation on a topic, and is started by entering 'man [section] topic'. The brackets [] around the section should not be entered, but rather indicate that the section is optional. If you don't ask for a particular section, the topic with the least-numbered section name will be displayed. For instance, after logging in, enter man passwd to read the documentation for passwd(1). To view the documentation for passwd(5), enter man 5 passwd instead. If you are unsure of what man page you are looking for, enter apropos subject-word where "subject-word" is your topic of interest; a list of possibly related man pages will be displayed. Adding third party software; ``packages'' and ``ports'': -------------------------------------------------------- As complete as your OpenBSD system is, you may want to add any of several excellent third party software applications. There are several ways to do this. You can: 1) Use the OpenBSD ``package'' collection to grab a pre-compiled and tested version of the application for your hardware. 2) Use the OpenBSD ``ports'' collection to automatically get any needed source file, apply any required patches, create the application, and install it for you. 3) Obtain the source code and build the application based upon whatever installation procedures are provided with the application. If you purchased the OpenBSD CD-ROM set you already have several popular ``packages'', and the ``ports'' collection. Instructions for installing applications from the various sources using the different installation methods follow. You should also refer to the packages(7) manual page. Installing applications from the CD-ROM package collection: The OpenBSD CD-ROM ships with several applications pre-built for various hardware architectures. The number of applications vary according to available disk space. Check the directory 5.3/packages/powerpc to see which packages are available for your hardware architecture. That directory will be on the same CD-ROM containing the OS installation files for your architecture. To install one or more of these packages you must: 1) become the superuser (root). 2) mount the appropriate CD-ROM. 3) use the ``pkg_add'' command to install the software. Example (in which we use su(1) to get superuser privileges, thus you have to be in group "wheel", see the manual page for su(1)). $ su Password: <enter your root password> # mkdir -p /cdrom # mount /dev/cd0a /cdrom # pkg_add /cdrom/5.3/packages/powerpc/<package-name> # <add more packages if desired> # umount /cdrom Package names are usually the application name and version with .tgz appended, e.g. emacs-21.3.tgz Installing applications from the ftp.OpenBSD.org package collection: All available packages for your architecture have been placed on ftp.OpenBSD.org in the directory pub/OpenBSD/5.3/packages/powerpc/ You may want to peruse this to see what packages are available. The packages are also on the OpenBSD FTP mirror sites. See http://www.OpenBSD.org/ftp.html for a list of current FTP mirror sites. Installation of a package is very easy. 1) become the superuser (root) 2) use the ``pkg_add'' command to install the software ``pkg_add'' is smart enough to know how to download the software from the OpenBSD FTP server. Example: $ su Password: <enter your root password> # pkg_add \ ftp://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.3/packages/powerpc/emacs-21.3.tgz Installing applications from the CD-ROM ports collection: The CD-ROM ``ports'' collection is a set of Makefiles, patches, and other files used to control the building and installation of an application from source files. Creating an application from sources can require a lot of disk space, sometimes 50 megabytes or more. The first step is to determine which of your disks has enough room. Once you've made this determination, read the file PORTS located on the CD-ROM which contains the ports tree. To build an application you must: 1) become the superuser (root) 2) have network access, or obtain the actual source files by some other means. 3) cd to the ports directory containing the port you wish to build. To build samba, for example, where you'd previously copied the ports files into the /usr/ports directory: cd /usr/ports/net/samba 4) make 5) make install 6) make clean Installing applications from the OpenBSD ports collection: See http://www.OpenBSD.org/faq/ports/ports.html for current instructions on obtaining and installing OpenBSD ports. You should also refer to the ports(7) manual page. Installing other applications: If an OpenBSD package or port does not exist for an application you're pretty much on your own. The first thing to do is ask <ports@OpenBSD.org> if anyone is working on a port -- there may be one in progress. If no such port exists, you might want to look at the FreeBSD ports or NetBSD pkgsrc for inspiration. If you can't find an existing port, try to make your own and feed it back to OpenBSD. That's how our ports collection grows. Some details can be found in the OpenBSD Porter's Handbook at http://www.openbsd.org/faq/ports/ with more help coming from the mailing list, <ports@OpenBSD.org>. Administrivia: -------------- There are various mailing lists available via the mailing list server at <majordomo@OpenBSD.org>. To get help on using the mailing list server, send mail to that address with an empty body, and it will reply with instructions. There are also two OpenBSD Usenet newsgroups, comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.announce for important announcements and comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc for general OpenBSD discussion. More information about the various OpenBSD mailing list and proper netiquette is available at http://www.OpenBSD.org/mail.html To report bugs, use the 'sendbug' command shipped with OpenBSD, and fill in as much information about the problem as you can. Good bug reports include lots of details. Additionally, bug reports can be sent by mail to: bugs@OpenBSD.org As a favor, please avoid mailing huge documents or files to the mailing lists. Instead, put the material you would have sent up for FTP somewhere, then mail the appropriate list about it, or, if you'd rather not do that, mail the list saying you'll send the data to those who want it. For more information about reporting bugs, see http://www.OpenBSD.org/report.html