Various changes mainly that 2.2-RELEASE is out:
o Added 2.2-RELEASE information pages o Updated sgml "latest" macros to 2.2-RELEASE o Updated where.sgml page, deleted 2.2-GAMMA entry o Shortened copyright mark to 1995-1997 o Changed Newsflash entries's Release Notes to use html versions when available; updated entry for 2.1.6 since 2.1.7 is available
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<!-- file if necessary. -->
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<!ENTITY copyright 'Copyright © 1995, 1996, 1997 FreeBSD Inc.
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<!ENTITY copyright 'Copyright © 1995-1997 FreeBSD Inc.
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All rights reserved.'>
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<!ENTITY author '<a href="&base/mailto.html">www@FreeBSD.ORG</a><br>
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©right;'>
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<!ENTITY footer '<hr noshade>&home;<address>&author;<br>&date;</address>'>
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<!-- Short names for various anchor points -->
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<!ENTITY a.latest.not '<a href="&base/releases/2.1.7R/notes.html">'>
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<!ENTITY a.latest.ann '<a href="&base/releases/2.1.7R/announce.html">'>
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<!ENTITY date "$Date: 1997-03-17 02:15:39 $">
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<!ENTITY date "$Date: 1997-03-17 08:38:08 $">
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<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD News flash!">
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<!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "includes.sgml"> %includes;
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]>
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<!-- $Id: newsflash.sgml,v 1.29 1997-03-17 02:15:39 nsj Exp $ -->
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<html>
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&header;
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2.2-RELEASE</a> is now available. Read the
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<a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2-RELEASE/README.TXT">
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README.TXT</a> file or the
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<a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2-RELEASE/RELNOTES.TXT">
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Release Notes</a> for more information.<p></p></li>
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<a href="&base/releases/2.2R/notes.html">Release Notes</a>
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for more information.<p></p></li>
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</ul>
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2.1.7-RELEASE</a> is now available. Read the
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<a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.7-RELEASE/README.TXT">
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README.TXT</a> file or the
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<a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.7-RELEASE/RELNOTES.TXT">
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Release Notes</a> for more information about it.<p></p></li>
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<a href="&base/releases/2.1.7R/notes.html">
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Release Notes</a> for more information.<p></p></li>
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<LI><B>10-Feb-1997</B>
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<a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/3.0-970209-SNAP">FreeBSD
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earlier systems was found. The problem has been corrected
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within the -stable, -current, and RELENG_2_2 source trees.
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As an additional precaution, FreeBSD 2.1.6 is no longer
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available from the FTP distribution sites. An update release
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(provisionally "FreeBSD 2.1.7") is expected shortly. You can
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available from the FTP distribution sites. You can
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read more about the problem and solution from the
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<A HREF="ftp://freebsd.org/pub/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-97:01.setlocale">
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FreeBSD-SA-97:01.setlocale</A> security announcement.
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DOCS= install-media.sgml
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DOCS= announce.sgml install-media.sgml notes.sgml
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.include "../../web.mk"
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN" [
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<!ENTITY base CDATA "../..">
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<!ENTITY date "$Date: 1997-03-17 08:38:31 $">
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<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD 2.2 Announcement">
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<!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "../../includes.sgml"> %includes;
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]>
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<html>
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&header;
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<P>It is our great pleasure to announce the release of FreeBSD 2.2, the
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long-awaited first release of our 2.2 branch technology following
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lengthy ALPHA, BETA and GAMMA testing cycles.</P>
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<P>FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE is now available on
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<A HREF="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD">ftp.freebsd.org</A> and
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various <A HREF="&base/handbook/mirrors.html">FTP mirror sites</A>
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throughout the world. It can also be ordered on CD from
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<A HREF="http://www.cdrom.com">Walnut Creek CDROM</A>, from
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where it will be shipping shortly.</P>
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<P>FreeBSD 2.2 represents a rather large leap in functionality from the
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2.1.x releases, everyone being is strongly encouraged to read the
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<A HREF="&base/releases/2.2R/notes.html">release notes</A> for a list
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of new features.</P>
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&footer;
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</body>
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</html>
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN" [
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<!ENTITY base CDATA "../..">
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<!ENTITY date "$Date: 1997-03-17 08:38:31 $">
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<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD 2.2 Release Notes">
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<!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "../../includes.sgml"> %includes;
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]>
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<!-- $Id: notes.sgml,v 1.1 1997-03-17 08:38:31 mbarkah Exp $ -->
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<html>
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&header;
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<pre>
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RELEASE NOTES
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FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE
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1. What's new since 2.1.7
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-------------------------
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Lots of installation bugs fixed, more pc98 changes syncronized, geeze,
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what else?
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gdb 4.16 has been merged from -current, most of the third-party source
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now lives under /usr/src/contrib.
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Updated support for the DEC DEFPA/DEFEA FDDI hardware.
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The old ``HAVE_FPU'' Makefile option is now finally gone, the selection
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between the math library using the floating point emulator, and the
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version using the co-processor is now fully automatic. This will speed
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up floating-point using programs on sites that didn't like to recompile
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their `libm' previously.
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Javier Martin Rueda's `ex' driver has been merged, bringing support
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for the Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 network cards.
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The `de' driver now recognizes cards using the DE21140A chip, like the
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popular SMC9332BDT (10/100 Mbit/s) one.
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There's now a workaround for the brokeness of the frequently used
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CMD640 PCI IDE chip in the sources, albeit still disabled by default
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in 2.2.
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The number of EISA slots to probe is now a fully supported option,
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including the ability to save the value from a UserConfig session
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with dset(8). This helps owners of HP NetServer LC machines to
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install the system on their hardware.
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Support for the SDL RISCom N2pci sync serial card.
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Support for Cyclades Cyclom-Y (multi-port async serial) PCI adaptors
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as well as multiple controllers and the 32-Y (if you are currently using
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the Cyclades serial adapter, you should re-make your /dev entries and
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remove the old ones).
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Updated support for ethernet adaptors which use the DEC DC21X4X chipset.
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Update to gcc 2.7.2.1 & add support for weak symbols.
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Many things moved/brought into /usr/src/contrib, updating and
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cleaning up the source tree accordingly.
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Support for compiled-in shared library ld paths.
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Update sgmlfmt to `instant'.
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Support for SNMP-style interface MIBs, including full RFC
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1650-compliant MIBs for the `de' (DEC 21x4x) and `ed' (SMC/WD/Novell)
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drivers.
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/stand/sysinstall moved even more towards becoming a more general
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system management tool.
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The syscons and psm drivers now have a new underlying shared keyboard
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driver, eliminating many of the previously existing problems with
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their mutual interaction.
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Syscons now supports cut & paste in textmode using the moused(8)
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utility.
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2.2 is the first release that includes full CD-R support for the
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Plasmon RF41xx, HP4020i, HP6020i, and Philips CDD2000 drives. The
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driver is still under development (in particular to extend its
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usability for other devices), but it has been proved to be stable
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by now.
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Support for NFSv3 clients and servers went into the 2.2 sources
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shortly after branching off the 2.0.5/2.1.X tree. There are also
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other options available with NFS, like the ability to turn an NFSv2
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server into asynchronous write mode (which is in violation of the
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specs, but has precedents e.g. in SGI Irix).
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Poul-Henning Kamp's phkmalloc replaced the old and blatant BSD
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malloc implementation. This usually saves a lot of virtual memory
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for the clients, and offers some neat features like aborting the
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program on detected malloc abuses, or filling the malloced and/or
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freed area with junk in order to detect semantical problems in
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programs that use malloc.
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The `netatalk' implementation of AppleTalk has been integrated into
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the sources, most of the integration work courtesy Wistle Communic-
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ations Corp.
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The mount option `async' allows asynchronous metadata updates on UFS
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file systems, something that is the default e.g. on Linux' ext2fs.
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This speeds up many i-node intensive filesystem operations (like
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rm -r) at the cost of an increased risk in case of a system crash.
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The installation itself makes use of this feature, and could be
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drastically accelerated by this. (A bindist-only installation from a
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SCSI CD-ROM can now complete in less than 5 minutes on a fast
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machine!)
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The ATAPI CD-ROM support is now reported to work for quite an
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impressive number of drives. In other words, all the drives that
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basically adhere to the ATAPI standard are likely to work.
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There are many new drivers available in the kernel, too many to keep
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them in mind. Tekram supplied a driver for their DC390 and DC390T
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controllers. These controllers are based on the AMD 53c974, and the
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driver is also able to handle other SCSI controllers based on that
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chip. Of course, with Tekram being generous enough to support the
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FreeBSD project with their driver, we'd like to encourage you to buy
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their product. The `ed' and `lnc' drivers now support auto-config-
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uration for the respective PCI ethernet cards, including many NE2000
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clones and the AMD PCnet chips. The SDL RISCom N2 support is new, as
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well as the PCI version of the Cyclades driver.
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The Linux emulation is now fully functional, including ELF support.
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To make its use easier, there are even ports for the required shared
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libraries, and for the Slackware development environment.
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Along the same lines, the SysV COFF emulation (aka. SCO emulation) is
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reported to be working well now.
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FreeBSD also supports native ELF binaries, although it hasn't been
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decided yet whether, when, and how we might use this as the default
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binary format some day.
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A `brandelf' utility has been added to allow `branding' of non-shared
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linked ELF binaries where the kernel cannot guess which image activator
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(FreeBSD, Linux, maybe SysV some day) should be used. This works around
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one major flaw in the ELF object format, the missing field to mark the
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ABI it belongs to.
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Support for APM BIOSes is now in a much better shape.
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The manual section 9 has been started, describing `official' kernel
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programming interfaces. We are still seeking volunteers to document
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interfaces here!
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The kernel configuration option handling has been largely moved away
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from the old -D Makefile kludges, towards a system of "opt_foo.h"
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kernel include files, allowing Makefile dependencies to work again.
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We expect the old hack that blows the entire compile directory away
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on each run of config(8) to go away anytime soon. Unless you're changing
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weird options, you might now consider using the -n option to config(8),
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or setting the env variable NO_CONFIG_CLOBBER, if CPU time is costly for
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you. See also the comments in the handbook about how it works.
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2. Supported Configurations
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---------------------------
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FreeBSD currently runs on a wide variety of ISA, VLB, EISA and PCI bus
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based PC's, ranging from 386sx to Pentium class machines (though the
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386sx is not recommended). Support for generic IDE or ESDI drive
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configurations, various SCSI controller, network and serial cards is
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also provided.
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What follows is a list of all peripherals currently known to work with
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FreeBSD. Other configurations may also work, we have simply not as yet
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received confirmation of this.
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2.1. Disk Controllers
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WD1003 (any generic MFM/RLL)
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WD1007 (any generic IDE/ESDI)
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IDE
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ATA
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Adaptec 1510 series ISA SCSI controllers (not for bootable devices)
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Adaptec 152x series ISA SCSI controllers
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Adaptec 1535 ISA SCSI controllers
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Adaptec 154x series ISA SCSI controllers
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Adaptec 174x series EISA SCSI controller in standard and enhanced mode.
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Adaptec 274X/284X/2940/3940 (Narrow/Wide/Twin) series ISA/EISA/PCI SCSI
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controllers.
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Adaptec AIC7850 on-board SCSI controllers.
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Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 based boards, which includes the AHA-152x
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and SoundBlaster SCSI cards.
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** Note: You cannot boot from the SoundBlaster cards as they have no
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on-board BIOS, such being necessary for mapping the boot device into the
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system BIOS I/O vectors. They're perfectly usable for external tapes,
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CDROMs, etc, however. The same goes for any other AIC-6x60 based card
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without a boot ROM. Some systems DO have a boot ROM, which is generally
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indicated by some sort of message when the system is first powered up
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or reset, and in such cases you *will* also be able to boot from them.
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Check your system/board documentation for more details.
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Buslogic 545S & 545c
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Buslogic 445S/445c VLB SCSI controller
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Buslogic 742A, 747S, 747c EISA SCSI controller.
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Buslogic 946c PCI SCSI controller
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Buslogic 956c PCI SCSI controller
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SymBios (formerly NCR) 53C810, 53C825, 53c860 and 53c875 PCI SCSI
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controllers:
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ASUS SC-200
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Data Technology DTC3130 (all variants)
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NCR cards (all)
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Symbios cards (all)
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Tekram DC390W, 390U and 390F
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Tyan S1365
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Tekram DC390 and DC390T controllers (maybe other cards based on the
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AMD 53c974 as well).
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NCR5380/NCR53400 ("ProAudio Spectrum") SCSI controller.
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DTC 3290 EISA SCSI controller in 1542 emulation mode.
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UltraStor 14F, 24F and 34F SCSI controllers.
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Seagate ST01/02 SCSI controllers.
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Future Domain 8xx/950 series SCSI controllers.
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WD7000 SCSI controller.
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With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is provided for
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SCSI-I & SCSI-II peripherals, including Disks, tape drives (including
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DAT and 8mm Exabyte) and CD ROM drives.
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The following CD-ROM type systems are supported at this time:
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(cd) SCSI interface (also includes ProAudio Spectrum and
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SoundBlaster SCSI)
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(mcd) Mitsumi proprietary interface (all models)
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(matcd) Matsushita/Panasonic (Creative SoundBlaster) proprietary
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interface (562/563 models)
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(scd) Sony proprietary interface (all models)
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(wcd) ATAPI IDE interface (experimental and should be considered ALPHA
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quality!).
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2.2. Ethernet cards
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-------------------
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Allied-Telesis AT1700 and RE2000 cards
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AMD PCnet/PCI (79c970 & 53c974 or 79c974)
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SMC Elite 16 WD8013 ethernet interface, and most other WD8003E,
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WD8003EBT, WD8003W, WD8013W, WD8003S, WD8003SBT and WD8013EBT
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based clones. SMC Elite Ultra is also supported.
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DEC EtherWORKS III NICs (DE203, DE204, and DE205)
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DEC EtherWORKS II NICs (DE200, DE201, DE202, and DE422)
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DEC DC21040, DC21041, or DC21140 based NICs (SMC Etherpower 8432T, DE245, etc)
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DEC FDDI (DEFPA/DEFEA) NICs
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Fujitsu MB86960A/MB86965A
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HP PC Lan+ cards (model numbers: 27247B and 27252A).
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Intel EtherExpress (not recommended due to driver instability)
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Intel EtherExpress Pro/10
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Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B PCI Fast Ethernet
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Isolan AT 4141-0 (16 bit)
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Isolink 4110 (8 bit)
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Novell NE1000, NE2000, and NE2100 ethernet interface.
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3Com 3C501 cards
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3Com 3C503 Etherlink II
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3Com 3c505 Etherlink/+
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3Com 3C507 Etherlink 16/TP
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3Com 3C509, 3C579, 3C589 (PCMCIA), 3C590/592/595/900/905 PCI and EISA
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(Fast) Etherlink III / (Fast) Etherlink XL
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Toshiba ethernet cards
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PCMCIA ethernet cards from IBM and National Semiconductor are also
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supported.
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Note that NO token ring cards are supported at this time as we're
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still waiting for someone to donate a driver for one of them. Any
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takers?
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2.3. Misc
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AST 4 port serial card using shared IRQ.
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ARNET 8 port serial card using shared IRQ.
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ARNET (now Digiboard) Sync 570/i high-speed serial.
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Boca BB1004 4-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported)
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Boca IOAT66 6-Port serial card (Modems supported)
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Boca BB1008 8-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported)
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Boca BB2016 16-Port serial card (Modems supported)
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Cyclades Cyclom-y Serial Board.
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STB 4 port card using shared IRQ.
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SDL Communications Riscom/8 Serial Board.
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SDL Communications RISCom/N2 and N2pci high-speed sync serial boards.
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Stallion multiport serial boards: EasyIO, EasyConnection 8/32 & 8/64,
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ONboard 4/16 and Brumby.
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Adlib, SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster Pro, ProAudioSpectrum, Gravis UltraSound
|
||||
and Roland MPU-401 sound cards.
|
||||
|
||||
Connectix QuickCam
|
||||
Matrox Meteor Video frame grabber
|
||||
Creative Labs Video Spigot frame grabber
|
||||
Cortex1 frame grabber
|
||||
|
||||
HP4020i, Philips CDD2000 and PLASMON WORM (CDR) drives.
|
||||
|
||||
PS/2 mice
|
||||
|
||||
Standard PC Joystick
|
||||
|
||||
X-10 power controllers
|
||||
|
||||
GPIB and Transputer drivers.
|
||||
|
||||
Genius and Mustek hand scanners.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
FreeBSD currently does NOT support IBM's microchannel (MCA) bus.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
3. Obtaining FreeBSD
|
||||
--------------------
|
||||
|
||||
You may obtain FreeBSD in a variety of ways:
|
||||
|
||||
3.1. FTP/Mail
|
||||
-------------
|
||||
|
||||
You can ftp FreeBSD and any or all of its optional packages from
|
||||
`ftp.freebsd.org' - the official FreeBSD release site.
|
||||
|
||||
For other locations that mirror the FreeBSD software see the file
|
||||
MIRROR.SITES. Please ftp the distribution from the site closest (in
|
||||
networking terms) to you. Additional mirror sites are always welcome!
|
||||
Contact freebsd-admin@FreeBSD.org for more details if you'd like to
|
||||
become an official mirror site.
|
||||
|
||||
If you do not have access to the Internet and electronic mail is your
|
||||
only recourse, then you may still fetch the files by sending mail to
|
||||
`ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com' - putting the keyword "help" in your message
|
||||
to get more information on how to fetch files using this mechanism.
|
||||
Please do note, however, that this will end up sending many *tens of
|
||||
megabytes* through the mail and should only be employed as an absolute
|
||||
LAST resort!
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
3.2. CDROM
|
||||
----------
|
||||
|
||||
FreeBSD 2.1.7-RELEASE and 2.2-RELEASE CDs may be ordered on CDROM from:
|
||||
|
||||
Walnut Creek CDROM
|
||||
4041 Pike Lane, Suite D
|
||||
Concord CA 94520
|
||||
1-800-786-9907, +1-510-674-0783, +1-510-674-0821 (fax)
|
||||
|
||||
Or via the Internet from orders@cdrom.com or http://www.cdrom.com.
|
||||
Their current catalog can be obtained via ftp from:
|
||||
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/cdrom/catalog.
|
||||
|
||||
Cost per -RELEASE CD is $39.95 or $24.95 with a FreeBSD subscription.
|
||||
FreeBSD 3.0-SNAP CDs are $29.95 or $14.95 with a FreeBSD-SNAP subscription
|
||||
(-RELEASE and -SNAP subscriptions are entirely separate). With a
|
||||
subscription, you will automatically receive updates as they are released.
|
||||
Your credit card will be billed when each disk is shipped and you may cancel
|
||||
your subscription at any time without further obligation.
|
||||
|
||||
Shipping (per order not per disc) is $5 in the US, Canada or Mexico
|
||||
and $9.00 overseas. They accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American
|
||||
Express or checks in U.S. Dollars and ship COD within the United
|
||||
States. California residents please add 8.25% sales tax.
|
||||
|
||||
Should you be dissatisfied for any reason, the CD comes with an
|
||||
unconditional return policy.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
4. Reporting problems, making suggestions, submitting code.
|
||||
-----------------------------------------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
Your suggestions, bug reports and contributions of code are always
|
||||
valued - please do not hesitate to report any problems you may find
|
||||
(preferably with a fix attached, if you can!).
|
||||
|
||||
The preferred method to submit bug reports from a machine with
|
||||
Internet mail connectivity is to use the send-pr command or use the CGI
|
||||
script at http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html. Bug reports
|
||||
will be dutifully filed by our faithful bugfiler program and you can
|
||||
be sure that we'll do our best to respond to all reported bugs as soon
|
||||
as possible. Bugs filed in this way are also visible on our WEB site
|
||||
in the support section and are therefore valuable both as bug reports
|
||||
and as "signposts" for other users concerning potential problems to
|
||||
watch out for.
|
||||
|
||||
If, for some reason, you are unable to use the send-pr command to
|
||||
submit a bug report, you can try to send it to:
|
||||
|
||||
freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
|
||||
|
||||
Note that send-pr itself is a shell script that should be easy to move
|
||||
even onto a totally different system. We much prefer if you could use
|
||||
this interface, since it make it easier to keep track of the problem
|
||||
reports. However, before submitting, please try to make sure whether
|
||||
the problem might have already been fixed since.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Otherwise, for any questions or suggestions, please send mail to:
|
||||
|
||||
freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Additionally, being a volunteer effort, we are always happy to have
|
||||
extra hands willing to help - there are already far more desired
|
||||
enhancements than we'll ever be able to manage by ourselves! To
|
||||
contact us on technical matters, or with offers of help, please send
|
||||
mail to:
|
||||
|
||||
freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Please note that these mailing lists can experience *significant*
|
||||
amounts of traffic and if you have slow or expensive mail access and
|
||||
are only interested in keeping up with significant FreeBSD events, you
|
||||
may find it preferable to subscribe instead to:
|
||||
|
||||
freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
All but the freebsd-bugs groups can be freely joined by anyone wishing
|
||||
to do so. Send mail to MajorDomo@FreeBSD.org and include the keyword
|
||||
`help' on a line by itself somewhere in the body of the message. This
|
||||
will give you more information on joining the various lists, accessing
|
||||
archives, etc. There are a number of mailing lists targeted at
|
||||
special interest groups not mentioned here, so send mail to majordomo
|
||||
and ask about them!
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
5. Acknowledgements
|
||||
-------------------
|
||||
|
||||
FreeBSD represents the cumulative work of many dozens, if not
|
||||
hundreds, of individuals from around the world who have worked very
|
||||
hard to bring you this release. For a complete list of FreeBSD
|
||||
project staffers, please see:
|
||||
|
||||
http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/staff.html
|
||||
|
||||
or, if you've loaded the doc distribution:
|
||||
|
||||
file:/usr/share/doc/handbook/staff.html
|
||||
|
||||
Additional FreeBSD helpers and beta testers:
|
||||
|
||||
Coranth Gryphon Dave Rivers
|
||||
Kaleb S. Keithley Terry Lambert
|
||||
David Dawes Don Lewis
|
||||
|
||||
Special mention to:
|
||||
|
||||
Walnut Creek CDROM, without whose help (and continuing support)
|
||||
this release would never have been possible.
|
||||
|
||||
Dermot McDonnell for his donation of a Toshiba XM3401B CDROM
|
||||
drive.
|
||||
|
||||
Chuck Robey for his donation of a floppy tape streamer for
|
||||
testing.
|
||||
|
||||
Larry Altneu and Wilko Bulte for providing us with Wangtek
|
||||
and Archive QIC-02 tape drives for testing and driver hacking.
|
||||
|
||||
CalWeb Internet Services for the loan of a P6/200 machine for
|
||||
speedy package building.
|
||||
|
||||
Everyone at Montana State University for their initial support.
|
||||
|
||||
And to the many thousands of FreeBSD users and testers all over the
|
||||
world, without whom this release simply would not have been possible.
|
||||
|
||||
We sincerely hope you enjoy this release of FreeBSD!
|
||||
|
||||
The FreeBSD Project
|
||||
|
||||
</pre>
|
||||
|
||||
&footer;
|
||||
</body>
|
||||
</html>
|
|
@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
|
|||
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN" [
|
||||
<!ENTITY base CDATA "..">
|
||||
<!ENTITY date "$Date: 1997-02-21 03:08:35 $">
|
||||
<!ENTITY date "$Date: 1997-03-17 08:38:26 $">
|
||||
<!ENTITY title "Release Information">
|
||||
<!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "../includes.sgml"> %includes;
|
||||
]>
|
||||
|
@ -11,38 +11,37 @@
|
|||
<p>Recent announcements about FreeBSD Releases.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<a name="current"></a>
|
||||
<h2>Current Release</h2>
|
||||
<h2>Current Releases</h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
<li><b>Release 2.1.7 RELEASE</b> (February 19, 1997)
|
||||
<li><b>Release 2.2 RELEASE</b> (March 16, 1997)
|
||||
<em>
|
||||
&a.latest.ann;Announcement</a> :
|
||||
&a.latest.not;Release Notes</a>.
|
||||
</em>
|
||||
<br>
|
||||
If you wish to obtain this release, please see <a
|
||||
href="../where.html"><em>Obtaining and Installing
|
||||
FreeBSD</em></a> for details.
|
||||
</li>
|
||||
href="../where.html">Getting FreeBSD</a> for details.
|
||||
<p></p></li>
|
||||
|
||||
<li><b>Release 2.1.7 RELEASE</b> (February 20, 1997)
|
||||
<em>
|
||||
<A HREF="&base/releases/2.1.7R/announce.html">Announcement</a> :
|
||||
<A HREF="&base/releases/2.1.7R/notes.html">Release Notes</A>.
|
||||
</em>
|
||||
<br>
|
||||
This latest release from our
|
||||
<A HREF="&base/handbook/stable.html">FreeBSD-stable</A> branch
|
||||
is also available.
|
||||
<br>
|
||||
Please see <a href="../where.html">Getting FreeBSD</a> for details.
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<a name="future"></a>
|
||||
|
||||
<h2>Future Releases</h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<li>The next official release will be
|
||||
<strong>2.2</strong> which will be derived from the
|
||||
<b><a href="../handbook/current.html">FreeBSD-current</a></b>
|
||||
branch of the development tree.
|
||||
|
||||
<li>Periodic <b><a href="snapshots.html">snapshot</a></b> releases
|
||||
are available daily at
|
||||
<a href="ftp://22gamma.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/">
|
||||
ftp://22gamma.freebsd.org/</a>. The
|
||||
<a href="ftp://22gamma.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/README.TXT">
|
||||
README.TXT</a> file has more information.
|
||||
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<a name="past"></a>
|
||||
|
@ -84,27 +83,27 @@
|
|||
</em>
|
||||
</li>
|
||||
|
||||
<li><b>2.0.5 RELEASE</b> (June, 1995)
|
||||
<li><b>Release 2.0.5 RELEASE</b> (June, 1995)
|
||||
<em>
|
||||
<a href="./2.0.5R/announce.html">Announcement</a> :
|
||||
<a href="./2.0.5R/notes.html">Release Notes</a>.
|
||||
</em>
|
||||
</li>
|
||||
|
||||
<li><b>2.1 RELEASE</b> (November, 1995)
|
||||
<li><b>Release 2.1 RELEASE</b> (November, 1995)
|
||||
<em>
|
||||
<a href="./2.1R/announce.html">Announcement</a> :
|
||||
<a href="./2.1R/notes.html">Release Notes</a>.
|
||||
</em>
|
||||
</li>
|
||||
|
||||
<li><b>2.1.5 RELEASE</b> (July, 1996)
|
||||
<li><b>Release 2.1.5 RELEASE</b> (July, 1996)
|
||||
<em>
|
||||
<a href="./2.1.5R/announce.html">Announcement</a> :
|
||||
<a href="./2.1.5R/notes.html">Release Notes</a>.
|
||||
</em>
|
||||
|
||||
<li><b>2.1.6 RELEASE</b> (November 16, 1996)
|
||||
<li><b>Release 2.1.6 RELEASE</b> (December, 1996)
|
||||
<em>
|
||||
<a href="./2.1.6R/announce.html">Announcement</a> :
|
||||
<a href="./2.1.6R/notes.html">Release Notes</a>.
|
||||
|
|
|
@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
|
|||
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN" [
|
||||
<!ENTITY date "$Date: 1997-02-20 15:25:19 $">
|
||||
<!ENTITY date "$Date: 1997-03-17 08:38:10 $">
|
||||
<!ENTITY title "Getting FreeBSD">
|
||||
<!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "includes.sgml"> %includes;
|
||||
]>
|
||||
|
@ -31,10 +31,9 @@ first to determine what the latest version of FreeBSD is.</p>
|
|||
<li>Anonymous ftp from <a
|
||||
href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD">ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD</a>:
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
<li><a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2-RELEASE">FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE</a></li>
|
||||
|
||||
<li><a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.7-RELEASE">FreeBSD 2.1.7-RELEASE</a></li>
|
||||
|
||||
<li><a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2-GAMMA">FreeBSD 2.2-GAMMA</a></li>
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
</li>
|
||||
<li>Anonymous ftp from one of the numerous <a
|
||||
|
@ -89,6 +88,9 @@ CDROM</a></li>
|
|||
<li><a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports-current">Ports
|
||||
for FreeBSD-current</a></li>
|
||||
|
||||
<li><a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2-RELEASE/ports">Ports
|
||||
for FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE</a></li>
|
||||
|
||||
<li><a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports-2.1.6">Ports
|
||||
for FreeBSD versions 2.1.5 - 2.1.7</a></li>
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
|
@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
|
|||
<!-- Components making up the standard headers and footers. -->
|
||||
<!-- Override in the prolog <em>before</em> including this -->
|
||||
<!-- file if necessary. -->
|
||||
<!ENTITY copyright 'Copyright © 1995, 1996, 1997 FreeBSD Inc.
|
||||
<!ENTITY copyright 'Copyright © 1995-1997 FreeBSD Inc.
|
||||
All rights reserved.'>
|
||||
<!ENTITY author '<a href="&base/mailto.html">www@FreeBSD.ORG</a><br>
|
||||
©right;'>
|
||||
|
@ -36,5 +36,5 @@
|
|||
<!ENTITY footer '<hr noshade>&home;<address>&author;<br>&date;</address>'>
|
||||
|
||||
<!-- Short names for various anchor points -->
|
||||
<!ENTITY a.latest.not '<a href="&base/releases/2.1.7R/notes.html">'>
|
||||
<!ENTITY a.latest.ann '<a href="&base/releases/2.1.7R/announce.html">'>
|
||||
<!ENTITY a.latest.not '<a href="&base/releases/2.2R/notes.html">'>
|
||||
<!ENTITY a.latest.ann '<a href="&base/releases/2.2R/announce.html">'>
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<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD News flash!">
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||||
<!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "includes.sgml"> %includes;
|
||||
]>
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||||
<!-- $Id: newsflash.sgml,v 1.29 1997-03-17 02:15:39 nsj Exp $ -->
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<html>
|
||||
&header;
|
||||
|
||||
|
@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ Information</a></strong> page.</p>
|
|||
2.2-RELEASE</a> is now available. Read the
|
||||
<a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2-RELEASE/README.TXT">
|
||||
README.TXT</a> file or the
|
||||
<a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2-RELEASE/RELNOTES.TXT">
|
||||
Release Notes</a> for more information.<p></p></li>
|
||||
<a href="&base/releases/2.2R/notes.html">Release Notes</a>
|
||||
for more information.<p></p></li>
|
||||
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
|
@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ Information</a></strong> page.</p>
|
|||
2.1.7-RELEASE</a> is now available. Read the
|
||||
<a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.7-RELEASE/README.TXT">
|
||||
README.TXT</a> file or the
|
||||
<a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.7-RELEASE/RELNOTES.TXT">
|
||||
Release Notes</a> for more information about it.<p></p></li>
|
||||
<a href="&base/releases/2.1.7R/notes.html">
|
||||
Release Notes</a> for more information.<p></p></li>
|
||||
|
||||
<LI><B>10-Feb-1997</B>
|
||||
<a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/3.0-970209-SNAP">FreeBSD
|
||||
|
@ -53,8 +53,7 @@ Information</a></strong> page.</p>
|
|||
earlier systems was found. The problem has been corrected
|
||||
within the -stable, -current, and RELENG_2_2 source trees.
|
||||
As an additional precaution, FreeBSD 2.1.6 is no longer
|
||||
available from the FTP distribution sites. An update release
|
||||
(provisionally "FreeBSD 2.1.7") is expected shortly. You can
|
||||
available from the FTP distribution sites. You can
|
||||
read more about the problem and solution from the
|
||||
<A HREF="ftp://freebsd.org/pub/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-97:01.setlocale">
|
||||
FreeBSD-SA-97:01.setlocale</A> security announcement.
|
||||
|
|
|
@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
|
|||
DOCS= install-media.sgml
|
||||
DOCS= announce.sgml install-media.sgml notes.sgml
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|
||||
.include "../../web.mk"
|
||||
|
|
28
en/releases/2.2R/announce.sgml
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|
@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
|
|||
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN" [
|
||||
<!ENTITY base CDATA "../..">
|
||||
<!ENTITY date "$Date: 1997-03-17 08:38:31 $">
|
||||
<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD 2.2 Announcement">
|
||||
<!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "../../includes.sgml"> %includes;
|
||||
]>
|
||||
<html>
|
||||
&header;
|
||||
|
||||
<P>It is our great pleasure to announce the release of FreeBSD 2.2, the
|
||||
long-awaited first release of our 2.2 branch technology following
|
||||
lengthy ALPHA, BETA and GAMMA testing cycles.</P>
|
||||
|
||||
<P>FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE is now available on
|
||||
<A HREF="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD">ftp.freebsd.org</A> and
|
||||
various <A HREF="&base/handbook/mirrors.html">FTP mirror sites</A>
|
||||
throughout the world. It can also be ordered on CD from
|
||||
<A HREF="http://www.cdrom.com">Walnut Creek CDROM</A>, from
|
||||
where it will be shipping shortly.</P>
|
||||
|
||||
<P>FreeBSD 2.2 represents a rather large leap in functionality from the
|
||||
2.1.x releases, everyone being is strongly encouraged to read the
|
||||
<A HREF="&base/releases/2.2R/notes.html">release notes</A> for a list
|
||||
of new features.</P>
|
||||
|
||||
&footer;
|
||||
</body>
|
||||
</html>
|
511
en/releases/2.2R/notes.sgml
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en/releases/2.2R/notes.sgml
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|
@ -0,0 +1,511 @@
|
|||
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN" [
|
||||
<!ENTITY base CDATA "../..">
|
||||
<!ENTITY date "$Date: 1997-03-17 08:38:31 $">
|
||||
<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD 2.2 Release Notes">
|
||||
<!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "../../includes.sgml"> %includes;
|
||||
]>
|
||||
<!-- $Id: notes.sgml,v 1.1 1997-03-17 08:38:31 mbarkah Exp $ -->
|
||||
|
||||
<html>
|
||||
&header;
|
||||
|
||||
<pre>
|
||||
RELEASE NOTES
|
||||
FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE
|
||||
|
||||
1. What's new since 2.1.7
|
||||
-------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
Lots of installation bugs fixed, more pc98 changes syncronized, geeze,
|
||||
what else?
|
||||
|
||||
gdb 4.16 has been merged from -current, most of the third-party source
|
||||
now lives under /usr/src/contrib.
|
||||
|
||||
Updated support for the DEC DEFPA/DEFEA FDDI hardware.
|
||||
|
||||
The old ``HAVE_FPU'' Makefile option is now finally gone, the selection
|
||||
between the math library using the floating point emulator, and the
|
||||
version using the co-processor is now fully automatic. This will speed
|
||||
up floating-point using programs on sites that didn't like to recompile
|
||||
their `libm' previously.
|
||||
|
||||
Javier Martin Rueda's `ex' driver has been merged, bringing support
|
||||
for the Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 network cards.
|
||||
|
||||
The `de' driver now recognizes cards using the DE21140A chip, like the
|
||||
popular SMC9332BDT (10/100 Mbit/s) one.
|
||||
|
||||
There's now a workaround for the brokeness of the frequently used
|
||||
CMD640 PCI IDE chip in the sources, albeit still disabled by default
|
||||
in 2.2.
|
||||
|
||||
The number of EISA slots to probe is now a fully supported option,
|
||||
including the ability to save the value from a UserConfig session
|
||||
with dset(8). This helps owners of HP NetServer LC machines to
|
||||
install the system on their hardware.
|
||||
|
||||
Support for the SDL RISCom N2pci sync serial card.
|
||||
|
||||
Support for Cyclades Cyclom-Y (multi-port async serial) PCI adaptors
|
||||
as well as multiple controllers and the 32-Y (if you are currently using
|
||||
the Cyclades serial adapter, you should re-make your /dev entries and
|
||||
remove the old ones).
|
||||
|
||||
Updated support for ethernet adaptors which use the DEC DC21X4X chipset.
|
||||
|
||||
Update to gcc 2.7.2.1 & add support for weak symbols.
|
||||
|
||||
Many things moved/brought into /usr/src/contrib, updating and
|
||||
cleaning up the source tree accordingly.
|
||||
|
||||
Support for compiled-in shared library ld paths.
|
||||
|
||||
Update sgmlfmt to `instant'.
|
||||
|
||||
Support for SNMP-style interface MIBs, including full RFC
|
||||
1650-compliant MIBs for the `de' (DEC 21x4x) and `ed' (SMC/WD/Novell)
|
||||
drivers.
|
||||
|
||||
/stand/sysinstall moved even more towards becoming a more general
|
||||
system management tool.
|
||||
|
||||
The syscons and psm drivers now have a new underlying shared keyboard
|
||||
driver, eliminating many of the previously existing problems with
|
||||
their mutual interaction.
|
||||
|
||||
Syscons now supports cut & paste in textmode using the moused(8)
|
||||
utility.
|
||||
|
||||
2.2 is the first release that includes full CD-R support for the
|
||||
Plasmon RF41xx, HP4020i, HP6020i, and Philips CDD2000 drives. The
|
||||
driver is still under development (in particular to extend its
|
||||
usability for other devices), but it has been proved to be stable
|
||||
by now.
|
||||
|
||||
Support for NFSv3 clients and servers went into the 2.2 sources
|
||||
shortly after branching off the 2.0.5/2.1.X tree. There are also
|
||||
other options available with NFS, like the ability to turn an NFSv2
|
||||
server into asynchronous write mode (which is in violation of the
|
||||
specs, but has precedents e.g. in SGI Irix).
|
||||
|
||||
Poul-Henning Kamp's phkmalloc replaced the old and blatant BSD
|
||||
malloc implementation. This usually saves a lot of virtual memory
|
||||
for the clients, and offers some neat features like aborting the
|
||||
program on detected malloc abuses, or filling the malloced and/or
|
||||
freed area with junk in order to detect semantical problems in
|
||||
programs that use malloc.
|
||||
|
||||
The `netatalk' implementation of AppleTalk has been integrated into
|
||||
the sources, most of the integration work courtesy Wistle Communic-
|
||||
ations Corp.
|
||||
|
||||
The mount option `async' allows asynchronous metadata updates on UFS
|
||||
file systems, something that is the default e.g. on Linux' ext2fs.
|
||||
This speeds up many i-node intensive filesystem operations (like
|
||||
rm -r) at the cost of an increased risk in case of a system crash.
|
||||
The installation itself makes use of this feature, and could be
|
||||
drastically accelerated by this. (A bindist-only installation from a
|
||||
SCSI CD-ROM can now complete in less than 5 minutes on a fast
|
||||
machine!)
|
||||
|
||||
The ATAPI CD-ROM support is now reported to work for quite an
|
||||
impressive number of drives. In other words, all the drives that
|
||||
basically adhere to the ATAPI standard are likely to work.
|
||||
|
||||
There are many new drivers available in the kernel, too many to keep
|
||||
them in mind. Tekram supplied a driver for their DC390 and DC390T
|
||||
controllers. These controllers are based on the AMD 53c974, and the
|
||||
driver is also able to handle other SCSI controllers based on that
|
||||
chip. Of course, with Tekram being generous enough to support the
|
||||
FreeBSD project with their driver, we'd like to encourage you to buy
|
||||
their product. The `ed' and `lnc' drivers now support auto-config-
|
||||
uration for the respective PCI ethernet cards, including many NE2000
|
||||
clones and the AMD PCnet chips. The SDL RISCom N2 support is new, as
|
||||
well as the PCI version of the Cyclades driver.
|
||||
|
||||
The Linux emulation is now fully functional, including ELF support.
|
||||
To make its use easier, there are even ports for the required shared
|
||||
libraries, and for the Slackware development environment.
|
||||
|
||||
Along the same lines, the SysV COFF emulation (aka. SCO emulation) is
|
||||
reported to be working well now.
|
||||
|
||||
FreeBSD also supports native ELF binaries, although it hasn't been
|
||||
decided yet whether, when, and how we might use this as the default
|
||||
binary format some day.
|
||||
|
||||
A `brandelf' utility has been added to allow `branding' of non-shared
|
||||
linked ELF binaries where the kernel cannot guess which image activator
|
||||
(FreeBSD, Linux, maybe SysV some day) should be used. This works around
|
||||
one major flaw in the ELF object format, the missing field to mark the
|
||||
ABI it belongs to.
|
||||
|
||||
Support for APM BIOSes is now in a much better shape.
|
||||
|
||||
The manual section 9 has been started, describing `official' kernel
|
||||
programming interfaces. We are still seeking volunteers to document
|
||||
interfaces here!
|
||||
|
||||
The kernel configuration option handling has been largely moved away
|
||||
from the old -D Makefile kludges, towards a system of "opt_foo.h"
|
||||
kernel include files, allowing Makefile dependencies to work again.
|
||||
We expect the old hack that blows the entire compile directory away
|
||||
on each run of config(8) to go away anytime soon. Unless you're changing
|
||||
weird options, you might now consider using the -n option to config(8),
|
||||
or setting the env variable NO_CONFIG_CLOBBER, if CPU time is costly for
|
||||
you. See also the comments in the handbook about how it works.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
2. Supported Configurations
|
||||
---------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
FreeBSD currently runs on a wide variety of ISA, VLB, EISA and PCI bus
|
||||
based PC's, ranging from 386sx to Pentium class machines (though the
|
||||
386sx is not recommended). Support for generic IDE or ESDI drive
|
||||
configurations, various SCSI controller, network and serial cards is
|
||||
also provided.
|
||||
|
||||
What follows is a list of all peripherals currently known to work with
|
||||
FreeBSD. Other configurations may also work, we have simply not as yet
|
||||
received confirmation of this.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
2.1. Disk Controllers
|
||||
---------------------
|
||||
|
||||
WD1003 (any generic MFM/RLL)
|
||||
WD1007 (any generic IDE/ESDI)
|
||||
IDE
|
||||
ATA
|
||||
|
||||
Adaptec 1510 series ISA SCSI controllers (not for bootable devices)
|
||||
Adaptec 152x series ISA SCSI controllers
|
||||
Adaptec 1535 ISA SCSI controllers
|
||||
Adaptec 154x series ISA SCSI controllers
|
||||
Adaptec 174x series EISA SCSI controller in standard and enhanced mode.
|
||||
Adaptec 274X/284X/2940/3940 (Narrow/Wide/Twin) series ISA/EISA/PCI SCSI
|
||||
controllers.
|
||||
Adaptec AIC7850 on-board SCSI controllers.
|
||||
|
||||
Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 based boards, which includes the AHA-152x
|
||||
and SoundBlaster SCSI cards.
|
||||
|
||||
** Note: You cannot boot from the SoundBlaster cards as they have no
|
||||
on-board BIOS, such being necessary for mapping the boot device into the
|
||||
system BIOS I/O vectors. They're perfectly usable for external tapes,
|
||||
CDROMs, etc, however. The same goes for any other AIC-6x60 based card
|
||||
without a boot ROM. Some systems DO have a boot ROM, which is generally
|
||||
indicated by some sort of message when the system is first powered up
|
||||
or reset, and in such cases you *will* also be able to boot from them.
|
||||
Check your system/board documentation for more details.
|
||||
|
||||
Buslogic 545S & 545c
|
||||
Buslogic 445S/445c VLB SCSI controller
|
||||
Buslogic 742A, 747S, 747c EISA SCSI controller.
|
||||
Buslogic 946c PCI SCSI controller
|
||||
Buslogic 956c PCI SCSI controller
|
||||
|
||||
SymBios (formerly NCR) 53C810, 53C825, 53c860 and 53c875 PCI SCSI
|
||||
controllers:
|
||||
ASUS SC-200
|
||||
Data Technology DTC3130 (all variants)
|
||||
NCR cards (all)
|
||||
Symbios cards (all)
|
||||
Tekram DC390W, 390U and 390F
|
||||
Tyan S1365
|
||||
|
||||
Tekram DC390 and DC390T controllers (maybe other cards based on the
|
||||
AMD 53c974 as well).
|
||||
|
||||
NCR5380/NCR53400 ("ProAudio Spectrum") SCSI controller.
|
||||
|
||||
DTC 3290 EISA SCSI controller in 1542 emulation mode.
|
||||
|
||||
UltraStor 14F, 24F and 34F SCSI controllers.
|
||||
|
||||
Seagate ST01/02 SCSI controllers.
|
||||
|
||||
Future Domain 8xx/950 series SCSI controllers.
|
||||
|
||||
WD7000 SCSI controller.
|
||||
|
||||
With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is provided for
|
||||
SCSI-I & SCSI-II peripherals, including Disks, tape drives (including
|
||||
DAT and 8mm Exabyte) and CD ROM drives.
|
||||
|
||||
The following CD-ROM type systems are supported at this time:
|
||||
(cd) SCSI interface (also includes ProAudio Spectrum and
|
||||
SoundBlaster SCSI)
|
||||
(mcd) Mitsumi proprietary interface (all models)
|
||||
(matcd) Matsushita/Panasonic (Creative SoundBlaster) proprietary
|
||||
interface (562/563 models)
|
||||
(scd) Sony proprietary interface (all models)
|
||||
(wcd) ATAPI IDE interface (experimental and should be considered ALPHA
|
||||
quality!).
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
2.2. Ethernet cards
|
||||
-------------------
|
||||
|
||||
Allied-Telesis AT1700 and RE2000 cards
|
||||
|
||||
AMD PCnet/PCI (79c970 & 53c974 or 79c974)
|
||||
|
||||
SMC Elite 16 WD8013 ethernet interface, and most other WD8003E,
|
||||
WD8003EBT, WD8003W, WD8013W, WD8003S, WD8003SBT and WD8013EBT
|
||||
based clones. SMC Elite Ultra is also supported.
|
||||
|
||||
DEC EtherWORKS III NICs (DE203, DE204, and DE205)
|
||||
DEC EtherWORKS II NICs (DE200, DE201, DE202, and DE422)
|
||||
DEC DC21040, DC21041, or DC21140 based NICs (SMC Etherpower 8432T, DE245, etc)
|
||||
DEC FDDI (DEFPA/DEFEA) NICs
|
||||
|
||||
Fujitsu MB86960A/MB86965A
|
||||
|
||||
HP PC Lan+ cards (model numbers: 27247B and 27252A).
|
||||
|
||||
Intel EtherExpress (not recommended due to driver instability)
|
||||
Intel EtherExpress Pro/10
|
||||
Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B PCI Fast Ethernet
|
||||
|
||||
Isolan AT 4141-0 (16 bit)
|
||||
Isolink 4110 (8 bit)
|
||||
|
||||
Novell NE1000, NE2000, and NE2100 ethernet interface.
|
||||
|
||||
3Com 3C501 cards
|
||||
|
||||
3Com 3C503 Etherlink II
|
||||
|
||||
3Com 3c505 Etherlink/+
|
||||
|
||||
3Com 3C507 Etherlink 16/TP
|
||||
|
||||
3Com 3C509, 3C579, 3C589 (PCMCIA), 3C590/592/595/900/905 PCI and EISA
|
||||
(Fast) Etherlink III / (Fast) Etherlink XL
|
||||
|
||||
Toshiba ethernet cards
|
||||
|
||||
PCMCIA ethernet cards from IBM and National Semiconductor are also
|
||||
supported.
|
||||
|
||||
Note that NO token ring cards are supported at this time as we're
|
||||
still waiting for someone to donate a driver for one of them. Any
|
||||
takers?
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
2.3. Misc
|
||||
---------
|
||||
|
||||
AST 4 port serial card using shared IRQ.
|
||||
|
||||
ARNET 8 port serial card using shared IRQ.
|
||||
ARNET (now Digiboard) Sync 570/i high-speed serial.
|
||||
|
||||
Boca BB1004 4-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported)
|
||||
Boca IOAT66 6-Port serial card (Modems supported)
|
||||
Boca BB1008 8-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported)
|
||||
Boca BB2016 16-Port serial card (Modems supported)
|
||||
|
||||
Cyclades Cyclom-y Serial Board.
|
||||
|
||||
STB 4 port card using shared IRQ.
|
||||
|
||||
SDL Communications Riscom/8 Serial Board.
|
||||
SDL Communications RISCom/N2 and N2pci high-speed sync serial boards.
|
||||
|
||||
Stallion multiport serial boards: EasyIO, EasyConnection 8/32 & 8/64,
|
||||
ONboard 4/16 and Brumby.
|
||||
|
||||
Adlib, SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster Pro, ProAudioSpectrum, Gravis UltraSound
|
||||
and Roland MPU-401 sound cards.
|
||||
|
||||
Connectix QuickCam
|
||||
Matrox Meteor Video frame grabber
|
||||
Creative Labs Video Spigot frame grabber
|
||||
Cortex1 frame grabber
|
||||
|
||||
HP4020i, Philips CDD2000 and PLASMON WORM (CDR) drives.
|
||||
|
||||
PS/2 mice
|
||||
|
||||
Standard PC Joystick
|
||||
|
||||
X-10 power controllers
|
||||
|
||||
GPIB and Transputer drivers.
|
||||
|
||||
Genius and Mustek hand scanners.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
FreeBSD currently does NOT support IBM's microchannel (MCA) bus.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
3. Obtaining FreeBSD
|
||||
--------------------
|
||||
|
||||
You may obtain FreeBSD in a variety of ways:
|
||||
|
||||
3.1. FTP/Mail
|
||||
-------------
|
||||
|
||||
You can ftp FreeBSD and any or all of its optional packages from
|
||||
`ftp.freebsd.org' - the official FreeBSD release site.
|
||||
|
||||
For other locations that mirror the FreeBSD software see the file
|
||||
MIRROR.SITES. Please ftp the distribution from the site closest (in
|
||||
networking terms) to you. Additional mirror sites are always welcome!
|
||||
Contact freebsd-admin@FreeBSD.org for more details if you'd like to
|
||||
become an official mirror site.
|
||||
|
||||
If you do not have access to the Internet and electronic mail is your
|
||||
only recourse, then you may still fetch the files by sending mail to
|
||||
`ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com' - putting the keyword "help" in your message
|
||||
to get more information on how to fetch files using this mechanism.
|
||||
Please do note, however, that this will end up sending many *tens of
|
||||
megabytes* through the mail and should only be employed as an absolute
|
||||
LAST resort!
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
3.2. CDROM
|
||||
----------
|
||||
|
||||
FreeBSD 2.1.7-RELEASE and 2.2-RELEASE CDs may be ordered on CDROM from:
|
||||
|
||||
Walnut Creek CDROM
|
||||
4041 Pike Lane, Suite D
|
||||
Concord CA 94520
|
||||
1-800-786-9907, +1-510-674-0783, +1-510-674-0821 (fax)
|
||||
|
||||
Or via the Internet from orders@cdrom.com or http://www.cdrom.com.
|
||||
Their current catalog can be obtained via ftp from:
|
||||
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/cdrom/catalog.
|
||||
|
||||
Cost per -RELEASE CD is $39.95 or $24.95 with a FreeBSD subscription.
|
||||
FreeBSD 3.0-SNAP CDs are $29.95 or $14.95 with a FreeBSD-SNAP subscription
|
||||
(-RELEASE and -SNAP subscriptions are entirely separate). With a
|
||||
subscription, you will automatically receive updates as they are released.
|
||||
Your credit card will be billed when each disk is shipped and you may cancel
|
||||
your subscription at any time without further obligation.
|
||||
|
||||
Shipping (per order not per disc) is $5 in the US, Canada or Mexico
|
||||
and $9.00 overseas. They accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American
|
||||
Express or checks in U.S. Dollars and ship COD within the United
|
||||
States. California residents please add 8.25% sales tax.
|
||||
|
||||
Should you be dissatisfied for any reason, the CD comes with an
|
||||
unconditional return policy.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
4. Reporting problems, making suggestions, submitting code.
|
||||
-----------------------------------------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
Your suggestions, bug reports and contributions of code are always
|
||||
valued - please do not hesitate to report any problems you may find
|
||||
(preferably with a fix attached, if you can!).
|
||||
|
||||
The preferred method to submit bug reports from a machine with
|
||||
Internet mail connectivity is to use the send-pr command or use the CGI
|
||||
script at http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html. Bug reports
|
||||
will be dutifully filed by our faithful bugfiler program and you can
|
||||
be sure that we'll do our best to respond to all reported bugs as soon
|
||||
as possible. Bugs filed in this way are also visible on our WEB site
|
||||
in the support section and are therefore valuable both as bug reports
|
||||
and as "signposts" for other users concerning potential problems to
|
||||
watch out for.
|
||||
|
||||
If, for some reason, you are unable to use the send-pr command to
|
||||
submit a bug report, you can try to send it to:
|
||||
|
||||
freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
|
||||
|
||||
Note that send-pr itself is a shell script that should be easy to move
|
||||
even onto a totally different system. We much prefer if you could use
|
||||
this interface, since it make it easier to keep track of the problem
|
||||
reports. However, before submitting, please try to make sure whether
|
||||
the problem might have already been fixed since.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Otherwise, for any questions or suggestions, please send mail to:
|
||||
|
||||
freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Additionally, being a volunteer effort, we are always happy to have
|
||||
extra hands willing to help - there are already far more desired
|
||||
enhancements than we'll ever be able to manage by ourselves! To
|
||||
contact us on technical matters, or with offers of help, please send
|
||||
mail to:
|
||||
|
||||
freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Please note that these mailing lists can experience *significant*
|
||||
amounts of traffic and if you have slow or expensive mail access and
|
||||
are only interested in keeping up with significant FreeBSD events, you
|
||||
may find it preferable to subscribe instead to:
|
||||
|
||||
freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
All but the freebsd-bugs groups can be freely joined by anyone wishing
|
||||
to do so. Send mail to MajorDomo@FreeBSD.org and include the keyword
|
||||
`help' on a line by itself somewhere in the body of the message. This
|
||||
will give you more information on joining the various lists, accessing
|
||||
archives, etc. There are a number of mailing lists targeted at
|
||||
special interest groups not mentioned here, so send mail to majordomo
|
||||
and ask about them!
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
5. Acknowledgements
|
||||
-------------------
|
||||
|
||||
FreeBSD represents the cumulative work of many dozens, if not
|
||||
hundreds, of individuals from around the world who have worked very
|
||||
hard to bring you this release. For a complete list of FreeBSD
|
||||
project staffers, please see:
|
||||
|
||||
http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/staff.html
|
||||
|
||||
or, if you've loaded the doc distribution:
|
||||
|
||||
file:/usr/share/doc/handbook/staff.html
|
||||
|
||||
Additional FreeBSD helpers and beta testers:
|
||||
|
||||
Coranth Gryphon Dave Rivers
|
||||
Kaleb S. Keithley Terry Lambert
|
||||
David Dawes Don Lewis
|
||||
|
||||
Special mention to:
|
||||
|
||||
Walnut Creek CDROM, without whose help (and continuing support)
|
||||
this release would never have been possible.
|
||||
|
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Dermot McDonnell for his donation of a Toshiba XM3401B CDROM
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drive.
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Chuck Robey for his donation of a floppy tape streamer for
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testing.
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Larry Altneu and Wilko Bulte for providing us with Wangtek
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and Archive QIC-02 tape drives for testing and driver hacking.
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CalWeb Internet Services for the loan of a P6/200 machine for
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speedy package building.
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Everyone at Montana State University for their initial support.
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And to the many thousands of FreeBSD users and testers all over the
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world, without whom this release simply would not have been possible.
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We sincerely hope you enjoy this release of FreeBSD!
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The FreeBSD Project
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</pre>
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]>
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<p>Recent announcements about FreeBSD Releases.</p>
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<a name="current"></a>
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<h2>Current Release</h2>
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<h2>Current Releases</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><b>Release 2.1.7 RELEASE</b> (February 19, 1997)
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<li><b>Release 2.2 RELEASE</b> (March 16, 1997)
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<em>
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&a.latest.ann;Announcement</a> :
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&a.latest.not;Release Notes</a>.
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</em>
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<br>
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If you wish to obtain this release, please see <a
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href="../where.html"><em>Obtaining and Installing
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FreeBSD</em></a> for details.
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</li>
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href="../where.html">Getting FreeBSD</a> for details.
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<p></p></li>
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<li><b>Release 2.1.7 RELEASE</b> (February 20, 1997)
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<em>
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<A HREF="&base/releases/2.1.7R/announce.html">Announcement</a> :
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<A HREF="&base/releases/2.1.7R/notes.html">Release Notes</A>.
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</em>
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<br>
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This latest release from our
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<A HREF="&base/handbook/stable.html">FreeBSD-stable</A> branch
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is also available.
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<br>
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Please see <a href="../where.html">Getting FreeBSD</a> for details.
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</ul>
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<a name="future"></a>
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<h2>Future Releases</h2>
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<ul>
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<li>The next official release will be
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<strong>2.2</strong> which will be derived from the
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<b><a href="../handbook/current.html">FreeBSD-current</a></b>
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||||
branch of the development tree.
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||||
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||||
<li>Periodic <b><a href="snapshots.html">snapshot</a></b> releases
|
||||
are available daily at
|
||||
<a href="ftp://22gamma.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/">
|
||||
ftp://22gamma.freebsd.org/</a>. The
|
||||
<a href="ftp://22gamma.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/README.TXT">
|
||||
README.TXT</a> file has more information.
|
||||
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<ul>
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</ul>
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<a name="past"></a>
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</em>
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</li>
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<li><b>2.0.5 RELEASE</b> (June, 1995)
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<li><b>Release 2.0.5 RELEASE</b> (June, 1995)
|
||||
<em>
|
||||
<a href="./2.0.5R/announce.html">Announcement</a> :
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||||
<a href="./2.0.5R/notes.html">Release Notes</a>.
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</em>
|
||||
</li>
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||||
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||||
<li><b>2.1 RELEASE</b> (November, 1995)
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<li><b>Release 2.1 RELEASE</b> (November, 1995)
|
||||
<em>
|
||||
<a href="./2.1R/announce.html">Announcement</a> :
|
||||
<a href="./2.1R/notes.html">Release Notes</a>.
|
||||
</em>
|
||||
</li>
|
||||
|
||||
<li><b>2.1.5 RELEASE</b> (July, 1996)
|
||||
<li><b>Release 2.1.5 RELEASE</b> (July, 1996)
|
||||
<em>
|
||||
<a href="./2.1.5R/announce.html">Announcement</a> :
|
||||
<a href="./2.1.5R/notes.html">Release Notes</a>.
|
||||
</em>
|
||||
|
||||
<li><b>2.1.6 RELEASE</b> (November 16, 1996)
|
||||
<li><b>Release 2.1.6 RELEASE</b> (December, 1996)
|
||||
<em>
|
||||
<a href="./2.1.6R/announce.html">Announcement</a> :
|
||||
<a href="./2.1.6R/notes.html">Release Notes</a>.
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN" [
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<!ENTITY date "$Date: 1997-02-20 15:25:19 $">
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<!ENTITY date "$Date: 1997-03-17 08:38:10 $">
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<!ENTITY title "Getting FreeBSD">
|
||||
<!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "includes.sgml"> %includes;
|
||||
]>
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|
@ -31,10 +31,9 @@ first to determine what the latest version of FreeBSD is.</p>
|
|||
<li>Anonymous ftp from <a
|
||||
href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD">ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD</a>:
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
<li><a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2-RELEASE">FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE</a></li>
|
||||
|
||||
<li><a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.7-RELEASE">FreeBSD 2.1.7-RELEASE</a></li>
|
||||
|
||||
<li><a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2-GAMMA">FreeBSD 2.2-GAMMA</a></li>
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
</li>
|
||||
<li>Anonymous ftp from one of the numerous <a
|
||||
|
@ -89,6 +88,9 @@ CDROM</a></li>
|
|||
<li><a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports-current">Ports
|
||||
for FreeBSD-current</a></li>
|
||||
|
||||
<li><a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2-RELEASE/ports">Ports
|
||||
for FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE</a></li>
|
||||
|
||||
<li><a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports-2.1.6">Ports
|
||||
for FreeBSD versions 2.1.5 - 2.1.7</a></li>
|
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