INSTALLATION NOTES for NetBSD/MACHINE 1.1 Be sure to read _ALL_ of this document before you try to install NetBSD/MACHINE. What is NetBSD? ---- -- ------ NetBSD is a Berkeley Networking Release 2 (Net/2) and 4.4BSD-Lite -derived Operating System. It is a fully functional UN*X-like system which runs on many architectures and is being ported to more. NetBSD, as the name implies, is a creation of the members of the network community and without the net it's likely that this release wouldn't have come about. NetBSD 1.1 is a evolutionary release which contains over a year of changes to the kernel, user-level utilities, and documentation. Continuing the multi-platform tradition, NetBSD has added ports to atari and mvme68k based machines. Kernel interfaces have continued to be refined, and now several subsystems and device drivers are shared among the different ports. You can look for this trend to continue. NetBSD 1.1 has significantly enhanced the binary emulation subsystem (which includes iBCS2, Linux, OSF/1, SunOS, SVR4, Solaris and Ultrix compatibility) and several kernel subsystems have been generalized to support this more readily. The binary emulation strategy is aimed at making the emulation as accurate as possible. NetBSD 1.1 is also the first release to see machine-independent disk striping. The concatenated disk driver (ccd), which was previously supported only by the hp300 port, has been vastly improved. Many bugs were fixed, and explicit references to device-dependent routines removed and replaced by calls to the generic "vnode operation" routines. In addition, several features were added, including partition support, dynamic configuration and unconfiguration via a user space system utility program, and virtually unlimited number of component devices. Many new user programs have been added in NetBSD 1.1, as well, bringing it closer to our goal of supplying a complete UN*X-like environment. #include "whatis" The Future of NetBSD: --- ------ -- ------ The NetBSD Foundation was recently incorporated as a non-profit organization. It's purpose is to encourage, foster and promote the free exchange of computer software, namely the NetBSD Operating System. The foundation will allow for many things to be handled more smoothly than could be done with our previous informal organization. In particular, it provides the framework to deal with other parties that wish to become involved in the NetBSD Project. (IN WHAT WAY? Money, donations, etc) We believe that the NetBSD Foundation will help improve the quality of NetBSD by: * providing better organization to keep track of development efforts, including co-ordination with groups working in related fields. * providing a framework to receive donations of goods and services and to own the resources necessary to run the NetBSD Project. * providing a better position from which to undertake promotional activities. * periodically organizing workshops for developers and other interested people to discuss ongoing work. We hope to have regular releases of the full binary and source trees, but these are difficult to coordinate, especially with all of the architectures which we now support! We hope to support even _more_ hardware in the future, and have a rather large number of other ideas about what can be done to improve NetBSD. We intend to continue our current practice of making the NetBSD-current development source available on a daily or nearly-daily basis. We intend to integrate free, positive changes from whatever sources will provide them, providing that they are well thought-out and increase the usability of the system. Above all, we hope to create a stable and accessible system, and to be responsive to the needs and desires of NetBSD users, because it is for and because of them that NetBSD exists. Sources of NetBSD: ------- -- ------ #include "mirrors" NetBSD 1.1 Release Contents: ------ --- ------- -------- The NetBSD 1.1 release is organized in the following way: .../NetBSD-1.1/ BUGS Known bugs list (incomplete and out of date). CHANGES Changes since NetBSD's last release (and before). LAST_MINUTE Last minute changes. MIRRORS A list of sites that mirror the NetBSD 1.1 distribution. README.files README describing the distribution's contents. TODO NetBSD's todo list (incomplete and out of date). patches/ Post-release source code patches. source/ Source distribution sets; see below. In addition to the files and directories listed above, there is one directory per architecture, for each of the architectures that NetBSD 1.1 has a binary distribution for. There are also 'README.export-control' files sprinkled liberally throughout the distribution tree, which point out that there are some portions of the distribution (e.g. those containing crypt(3)) that should not be exported from the United States, and that if you do export them, it's your fault, not ours. The source distribution sets can be found in subdirectories of the "source" subdirectory of the distribution tree. They contain the complete sources to the system. The source distribution sets are as follows: dsrc11 This set contains the "domestic" sources. These sources contain export-restricted encryption code and should not be exported from the U.S. [ 140K gzipped, 655K uncompressed ] gsrc11 This set contains the "gnu" sources, including the source for the compiler, assembler, groff, and the other GNU utilities in the binary distribution sets. [ 7.1M gzipped, 30.4M uncompressed ] ksrc11 This set contains the sources to the NetBSD 1.1 kernel, config(8), config.old(8) and dbsym(8). [ 6.0M gzipped, 27.0M uncompressed ] ssrc11 This set contains the "share" sources, which include the sources for the man pages not associated with any particular program, the sources for the typesettable document set, the dictionaries, and more. [ 2.4M gzipped, 8.9M uncompressed ] src11 This set contains all of the NetBSD 1.1 sources which are not mentioned above. [ 9.3M gzipped, 41.6M uncompressed ] It is worth noting that unless all of the source distribution sets are installed (except the domestic set), you can't rebuild and install the system from scratch, straight out of the box. However, all that is required to rebuild the system in that case is a trivial modification to one Makefile. The source distribution sets are distributed as groups of files named "set_name.xx" where "set_name" is the distribution set name, and "xx" is the sequence number of the file, starting with "aa" for the first file in the distribution set, then "ab" for the next, and so on. All of these files except the last one of each set should be exactly 240,640 bytes long. (The last file is just long enough to contain the remainder of the data for that distribution set.) Catted together, the files belonging to a source distribution set comprise a gzipped tar file. If you want to look at list of the files contained in the set, you could use the command: cat set_name.?? | gunzip | tar tvf - or to actually extract the files contained in the set: cat set_name.?? | gunzip | tar xfp - In each of the source distribution set directories, there is a file named "CKSUMS" which contains the checksums of the files in that directory, as generated by the cksum(1) utility. You can use cksum to check the integrity of the archives, if you suspect that one of the files is corrupt and have access to a cksum binary. #include "contents" NetBSD System Requirements and Supported Devices: ------ ------ ------------ --- --------- ------- #include "hardware" Getting the NetBSD System on to Useful Media: ------- --- ------ ------ -- -- ------ ----- #include "xfer" Preparing your System for NetBSD Installation: --------- ---- ------ --- ------ ------------ #include "prep" Installing the NetBSD System: ---------- --- ------ ------ #include "install" Upgrading a previously-installed NetBSD System: --------- - ---------- --------- ------ ------ #include "upgrade" Administrivia: ------------- Registration? What's that? If you've got something to say, do so! We'd like your input. There are various mailing lists available via the mailing list server at . 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 various mailing lists set up to deal with comments and questions about this release. Please send comments to: netbsd-comments@NetBSD.ORG To report bugs, use the 'send-pr' command shipped with NetBSD, 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: netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.ORG Use of 'send-pr' is encouraged, however, because bugs reported with it are entered into the NetBSD bugs database, and thus can't slip through the cracks. There are also port-specific mailing lists, to discuss aspects of each port of NetBSD. Use majordomo to find their addresses. If you're interested in doing a serious amount of work on a specific port, you probably should contact the "owner" of that port (listed below). If you'd like to help with this effort, and have an idea as to how you could be useful, send mail and/or subscribe to: netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG As a favor, please avoid mailing huge documents or files to these 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. Thanks go to: ------ -- -- Members and former members of UCB's Computer Systems Research Group, including (but not limited to): Keith Bostic Ralph Campbell Mike Karels Marshall Kirk McKusick for their ongoing work on BSD systems, support, and encouragement. Also, our thanks go to: Mike Hibler Rick Macklem Jan-Simon Pendry Chris Torek for answering lots of questions, fixing bugs, and doing the various work they've done. UC Berkeley's Experimental Computing Facility provided a home for sun-lamp in the past, people to look after it, and a sense of humor. Rob Robertson, too, has added his unique sense of humor to things, and for a long time provided the primary FTP site for NetBSD. Without CVS, this project would be impossible to manage, so our hats go off to Brian Berliner, Jeff Polk, and the various other people who've had a hand in making CVS a useful tool. Alistair G. Crooks has been producing tar file snapshot reports for NetBSD-current users, a very valuable service. Dave Burgess has been maintaining the 386BSD/NetBSD/FreeBSD FAQ for quite some time, and deserves to be recognized for it. The following people (in alphabetical order) have made donations or loans of hardware and/or money, to support NetBSD development, and deserve credit for it: #include "donations" (If you're not on that list and should be, tell us! We probably were not able to get in touch with you, to verify that you wanted to be listed.) Finally, we thank all of the people who've put sweat and tears into developing NetBSD since its inception in January, 1993. (Obviously, there are a lot more people who deserve thanks here. If you're one of them, and would like to mentioned, tell us!) We are: -- --- (in alphabetical order) The NetBSD core group: J.T. Conklin Charles Hannum Paul Kranenburg The port-masters (and their ports): Allen Briggs (mac68k) Chuck Cranor (mvme68k) Chris G. Demetriou (alpha) Charles Hannum (i386) Chris Hopps (amiga) Paul Kranenburg (sparc) Ted Lemon (pmax) Anders Magnusson (vax) Phil Nelson (pc532) Gordon Ross (sun3) Jason Thorpe (hp300) Leo Weppelman (atari) Supporting cast: Steve Allen John Brezak Dave Burgess Hubert Feyrer Adam Glass Brad Grantham Matthew Green Michael L. Hitch Lawrence Kesteloot John Kohl Paul Mackerras Neil J. McRae Perry Metzger Herb Peyerl Matthias Pfaller Chris Provenzano Waldi Ravens Scott Reynolds Thor Lancelot Simon Wolfgang Solfrank Frank van der Linden Christos Zoulas Legal Mumbo-jumbo: ----- ----- ----- The following notices are required to satisfy the license terms of the software that we have mentioned in this document: #include "legal.common" #include "legal"