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99b86d5d | 1 | RELEASE NOTES |
a6632a1f | 2 | FreeBSD |
2742b299 | 3 | Release 1.1 |
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4 | |
5 | 1. Technical overview | |
6 | --------------------- | |
7 | ||
8 | FreeBSD is a freely available, full source 4.3 (+4.4 enhancements) BSD | |
9 | release for Intel i386/i486 (or compatable) based PC's. It is based | |
10 | heavily on Bill Jolitz's 386BSD 0.1, with additions from "the patchkit", | |
8157879c | 11 | NetBSD, CSRG, and the Free Software Foundation. |
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12 | |
13 | Many hundreds of bugs from the 386BSD 0.1 distribution were fixed, | |
14 | and many out-of-date pieces of software were upgraded to their current | |
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15 | releases in the GAMMA distribution. This 1.0 distribution fixes |
16 | many of the first-run problems our GAMMA and EPSILON users reported back | |
17 | to us. | |
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18 | |
19 | Additionally, many packages such as XFree86 1.3, xview 3.2, elm, nntp, | |
20 | mh and dozens of other miscellaneous utilities have been ported and | |
21 | are now available as add-ons. See then next section of this document | |
22 | for more details. | |
23 | ||
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24 | For a list of contributors, please see the file "CONTRIB.FreeBSD", |
25 | which should be bundled with your distribution. | |
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27 | The core of FreeBSD does not contain DES code which would inhibit its |
28 | being exported outside the United States. There is an add-on package | |
29 | to the core distribution, for use only in the United States, that | |
30 | contains the programs that normally use DES. The auxilliary packages | |
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31 | provided separately can be used by anyone. Work is in progress to |
32 | provide a freely (from outside the U.S.) exportable European distribution | |
33 | of DES for our non U.S. users. | |
34 | ||
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35 | |
36 | 2. Supported Configurations | |
37 | --------------------------- | |
38 | ||
39 | FreeBSD currently runs on a wide variety of ISA and EISA bus based | |
40 | PC's, ranging from 386sx to 486 class machines (though the 386sx is | |
d5637648 | 41 | not recommended). Support for generic IDE or ESDI drive configurations, |
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42 | various SCSI controller, network and serial cards is also provided. |
43 | ||
44 | Following is a list of all currently known disk controllers and | |
45 | ethernet cards known to work with FreeBSD. Other configurations may | |
46 | very well work, and we have simply not received any indication of | |
47 | this. | |
48 | ||
49 | ||
50 | 2.1. Disk Controllers | |
51 | ||
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52 | WD1003 (any generic MFM/RLL) |
53 | WD1007 (any generic IDE/ESDI) | |
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55 | Adaptec 154x series ISA SCSI controller (as long as you have less than |
56 | 16MB of main memory). | |
a6632a1f | 57 | |
f82c2b3e | 58 | Adaptec 174x series EISA SCSI controller in standard and enhanced mode. |
a6632a1f | 59 | |
f82c2b3e | 60 | Buslogic 545S. |
2742b299 | 61 | Buslogic 445S VLB SCSI controller |
a6632a1f | 62 | |
db9a3b24 | 63 | Bustec 742A and 747. |
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65 | DTC 3290 EISA SCSI controller in 1542 emulation mode (as long as |
66 | you have less than 16MB of main memory). | |
f82c2b3e | 67 | |
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70 | With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is provided for |
71 | SCSI-I & SCSI-II peripherals, including Disks, tape drives (including | |
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72 | DAT) and CD ROM drives. Note: This and the mcd driver (Mitsumi CDROM |
73 | inteface card) is the only way a CD ROM drive may be currently | |
74 | attached to a FreeBSD system; we do not support SoundBlaster CDROM | |
75 | interface, or other "mini SCSI" adapters. | |
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77 | The limitation some controllers have with >16MB of memory (as noted) |
78 | is due to the fact that the ISA bus only has a DMA address space of 24 bits. | |
79 | If you do your arithmetic, you'll see that this makes it impossible to do | |
80 | direct DMA to any address >16MB. This limitation is even true of some | |
81 | EISA controllers (which are normally 32 bit) when they're configured to | |
82 | emulate an ISA card, which they then do in *all* respects. This problem | |
83 | is avoided entirely by IDE controllers (which do not use DMA), true EISA | |
84 | controllers (like the UltraStor or Adaptec 1742A) or VLB (local bus) | |
85 | controllers. | |
86 | ||
87 | ||
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88 | |
89 | 2.2. Ethernet cards | |
90 | ||
91 | SMC Elite 16 WD8013 ethernet interface, and most other WD8003E, | |
92 | WD8003EBT, WD8003S, WD8003SBT and WD8013EBT based clones. | |
93 | ||
94 | Isolan AT 4141-0 (16 bit) | |
95 | ||
96 | Isolink 4110 (8 bit) | |
97 | ||
f82c2b3e | 98 | Novell NE1000 and NE2000 ethernet interface. |
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99 | |
100 | 3Com 3C503 Etherlink II | |
101 | ||
102 | ||
103 | 2.3. Misc | |
104 | ||
d5637648 | 105 | Various 2 and 4 port serial/parallel cards. |
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107 | Simple (AST-like) multiport serial cards. |
108 | ||
f82c2b3e | 109 | Mitsumi CDROM interface and drive. |
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111 | Adlib, Soundblaster, Soundblaster Pro, ProAudioSpectrum, Gravis UltraSound |
112 | and Roland MPU-401 sound cards. | |
113 | ||
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114 | FreeBSD currently does NOT support IBM's microchannel (MCA) bus, but |
115 | support is apparently close to materializing. Details will be posted | |
116 | as they develop. | |
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119 | 3. Obtaining FreeBSD. |
120 | --------------------- | |
121 | ||
122 | You may obtain FreeBSD in a variety of ways: | |
123 | ||
124 | 1. FTP/Mail | |
125 | ||
126 | You can ftp FreeBSD and any or all of its optional packages from | |
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127 | `freebsd.cdrom.com' - the offical FreeBSD release site. |
128 | ||
129 | The FreeBSD software is being mirrored at the following locations: | |
130 | ||
131 | Country Site/Directory | |
132 | ======= ===================================================== | |
133 | ||
134 | Austria ftp.tu-graz.ac.at:/pub/FreeBSD | |
135 | Germany ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de:pub/comp/os/bsd/FreeBSD | |
136 | Germany ftp.uni-duisburg.de:/pub/unix/FreeBSD | |
137 | Hong Kong ftp.cs.cuhk.hk:/pub/FreeBSD | |
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138 | The Netherlands ftp.nl.net:/pub/os/FreeBSD |
139 | United Kingdom src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/packages/FreeBSD | |
140 | U.S.A. ftp.dsu.edu:/pub/FreeBSD | |
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142 | |
143 | If you do not have access to the internet and electronic mail is your | |
144 | only recourse, then you may still fetch the files by sending mail to | |
145 | `ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com' - putting the keyword "help" in your message | |
146 | to get more information on how to fetch files from freebsd.cdrom.com. | |
147 | Note: This approach will end up sending many *tens of megabytes* | |
148 | through the mail, and should only be employed as an absolute LAST | |
149 | resort! | |
150 | ||
151 | ||
152 | 2. CDROM | |
153 | ||
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154 | FreeBSD may be ordered on CDROM from: |
155 | ||
156 | Walnut Creek CDROM | |
157 | 4041 Pike Lane, Suite D | |
158 | Concord CA 94520 | |
159 | 1-800-786-9907, +1-510-674-0783, +1-510-674-0821 (fax) | |
160 | ||
161 | Or via the internet from orders@cdrom.com. There current catalog can | |
162 | be obtained via ftp as ftp.cdrom.com:/cdrom/catalog. | |
a6632a1f | 163 | |
b7693172 | 164 | Cost is $39.95. Shipping (per order not per disc) is $5 in the US, Canada, |
f82c2b3e | 165 | or Mexico and $10.00 overseas. They accept Visa, Mastercard, American |
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166 | Express, and ship COD to the United States. California residents please |
167 | add 8.25% sales tax. | |
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168 | |
169 | Should you be dissatisfied for any reason, the CD comes with an | |
170 | unconditional return policy. | |
171 | ||
f82c2b3e | 172 | Note that Walnut Creek CDROM does NOT provide technical support for FreeBSD, |
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173 | you need to contact the FreeBSD team for that. Please see section 4 for |
174 | more information. | |
175 | ||
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177 | It should be noted, lest you get the wrong impression that "FreeBSD" |
178 | is anything but, that almost no one in the "core team" makes money | |
179 | from distributions or anything else connected with FreeBSD. We simply | |
180 | provide this information as a public service for those wishing to get | |
181 | their releases from somewhere other than the net (and the easier it | |
b5263fb6 | 182 | is for you to obtain our software, the happier we are). |
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183 | |
184 | ||
185 | 4. Reporting problems, making suggestions, submitting code. | |
186 | ----------------------------------------------------------- | |
187 | ||
188 | Your suggestions, bug reports and contributions of code are always | |
189 | valued - please do not hesitate to report any problems you may find | |
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190 | (preferably with a fix attached if you can!). |
191 | ||
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192 | The prefered method to submit bug reports from a machine with internet |
193 | mail connectivity is to use the sendbug command. Bug reports will be | |
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194 | dutifully filed by our faithful bugfiler program and you can be sure |
195 | that we'll do our best to respond to all reported bugs as soon as | |
196 | possible. | |
197 | ||
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198 | If, for some reason, you are unable to use the sendbug command to |
199 | submit a bug report, you can try to send it to: | |
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200 | |
201 | FreeBSD-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com | |
202 | ||
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203 | |
204 | Otherwise, for any questions or suggestions, please send mail to: | |
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205 | |
206 | FreeBSD-questions@freefall.cdrom.com | |
207 | ||
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208 | Additionally, being a volunteer effort, we are always happy to have |
209 | extra hands willing to help - there are already far more enhancements | |
210 | to be done than we can ever manage to do by ourselves! To contact us | |
211 | on technical matters, or with offers of help, you may send mail to: | |
212 | ||
213 | FreeBSD-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com | |
214 | ||
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215 | Since these mailing lists can experience significant amounts of |
216 | traffic, if you've got slow or expensive mail access and you're | |
217 | only interested in keeping up with significant FreeBSD events, you may | |
218 | find it preferable to subscribe to: | |
219 | ||
220 | FreeBSD-announce@freefall.cdrom.com | |
221 | ||
222 | ||
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223 | All but the FreeBSD-bugs groups can be freely joined by anyone wishing to |
224 | do so. Send mail to MajorDomo@freefall.cdrom.com and include the keyword | |
225 | `help' on a line by itself somewhere in the body of the message. This | |
226 | will give you more information on joining the various lists, accessing | |
227 | archives, etc. | |
228 | ||
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229 | |
230 | 5. Acknowledgements | |
231 | ------------------- | |
232 | ||
233 | FreeBSD represents the cumulative work of many dozens, if not | |
234 | hundreds, of individuals from around the world who have worked very | |
235 | hard to bring you this release. It would be very difficult, if not | |
236 | impossible, to enumerate everyone who's contributed to FreeBSD, but | |
237 | nonetheless we shall try (in alphabetical order, of course). If your | |
238 | name is not mentioned, please be assured that its omission is entirely | |
239 | accidental. | |
240 | ||
241 | ||
5acd5d1c | 242 | The Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG), U.C. Berkeley. |
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243 | |
244 | Bill Jolitz, for his extensive work with 386BSD. | |
245 | ||
246 | The FreeBSD "core" group: | |
247 | ||
52371e11 | 248 | Andrew A. Chernov |
ca2c7c4c | 249 | John Dyson |
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250 | David Greenman |
251 | Rodney W. Grimes | |
252 | Jordan K. Hubbard | |
253 | Scott Mace | |
254 | Andrew Moore | |
255 | Rich Murphey | |
256 | Paul Richards | |
257 | Christoph Robitschko | |
258 | Andreas Schulz | |
a6632a1f | 259 | Nate Williams |
b3f9c066 | 260 | Garrett A. Wollman |
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261 | |
262 | ||
263 | Special mention to: | |
264 | ||
265 | Robert Bruce and Jack Velte of Walnut Creek CDROM, without | |
266 | whose help (and continuing support) this release would never | |
267 | have been possible. | |
268 | ||
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269 | Dermot McDonnell for his donation of a Toshiba XM3401B CDROM |
270 | drive. | |
271 | ||
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272 | The NetBSD group for their frequent assistance and commentary. |
273 | ||
274 | Additional FreeBSD helpers and beta testers: | |
275 | ||
276 | Gary Browing Jon Cargille | |
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277 | J.T. Conklin Chris Demetriou |
278 | Julian Elischer Bruce Evans | |
279 | Sean Eric Fagan Guy Helmer | |
280 | Terry Lambert Gary Moyer | |
281 | Jaye Mathisen L Jonas Olsson | |
282 | Chris Provenzano Dave Rivers | |
283 | Guido van Rooij Steven Wallace | |
284 | Rick Weldon Terry Williams | |
a6632a1f | 285 | |
b5263fb6 | 286 | And everyone at Montana State University for their initial support. |
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287 | |
288 | ||
289 | Thanks to everyone, especially those not mentioned, and we sincerely | |
290 | hope you enjoy this release of FreeBSD! | |
291 | ||
292 | ||
293 | The FreeBSD Core Group | |
294 | ||
2742b299 | 295 | $Id: RELNOTES.FreeBSD,v 1.21 1994/02/01 03:51:28 ache Exp $ |