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99b86d5d | 1 | RELEASE NOTES |
a6632a1f | 2 | FreeBSD |
74fc2834 | 3 | Release 1.1.5 |
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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 | |
74fc2834 | 10 | on Bill Jolitz's 386BSD 0.1, with additions from "the patchkit", |
8157879c | 11 | NetBSD, CSRG, and the Free Software Foundation. |
a6632a1f | 12 | |
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13 | Since our first release of FreeBSD 1.0, many hundreds of bugs have been |
14 | fixed, features added, and the overall quality of the system improved | |
15 | almost imeasurably. FreeBSD 1.1.5 represents the culmination of almost | |
16 | 18 months of work and many thousands of man hours put in by our all-volunteer | |
17 | working group. We hope you enjoy it! | |
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19 | Many packages have also been upgraded or added, such as XFree86 2.1, |
20 | xview 3.2, elm, nntp, mh, InterViews and dozens of other miscellaneous | |
21 | utilities have been ported and are now available as add-ons. See the next | |
22 | section of this document for more details. | |
a6632a1f | 23 | |
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24 | For a list of contributors, please see the files "CONTRIB.FreeBSD" and |
25 | "CONTRIB.386BSD", which should be bundled with your distribution. | |
a6632a1f | 26 | |
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27 | Also see the new "REGISTER.FreeBSD" file for information on registering |
28 | with the "Free BSD user counter". We've also provided a list of who's | |
29 | responsible for what (so that you may query them directly) in the | |
30 | "ROSTER.FreeBSD" file; use of this file is encouraged to ensure faster | |
31 | resolution of an problems you may have! | |
32 | ||
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33 | The core of FreeBSD does not contain DES code which would inhibit its |
34 | being exported outside the United States. There is an add-on package | |
35 | to the core distribution, for use only in the United States, that | |
36 | contains the programs that normally use DES. The auxilliary packages | |
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37 | provided separately can be used by anyone. A freely (from outside the U.S.) |
38 | exportable European distribution of DES for our non U.S. users also exists | |
39 | and is described in the FreeBSD FAQ. | |
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41 | |
42 | 2. Supported Configurations | |
43 | --------------------------- | |
44 | ||
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45 | FreeBSD currently runs on a wide variety of ISA, EISA and PCI bus based |
46 | PC's, ranging from 386sx to Pentium class machines (though the 386sx is | |
d5637648 | 47 | not recommended). Support for generic IDE or ESDI drive configurations, |
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48 | various SCSI controller, network and serial cards is also provided. |
49 | ||
50 | Following is a list of all currently known disk controllers and | |
51 | ethernet cards known to work with FreeBSD. Other configurations may | |
52 | very well work, and we have simply not received any indication of | |
53 | this. | |
54 | ||
55 | ||
56 | 2.1. Disk Controllers | |
57 | ||
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58 | WD1003 (any generic MFM/RLL) |
59 | WD1007 (any generic IDE/ESDI) | |
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61 | Adaptec 154x series ISA SCSI controller (as long as you have less than |
62 | 16MB of main memory). | |
a6632a1f | 63 | |
f82c2b3e | 64 | Adaptec 174x series EISA SCSI controller in standard and enhanced mode. |
a6632a1f | 65 | |
e5e36938 | 66 | [Note that Buslogic was formerly known as "Bustec"] |
f82c2b3e | 67 | Buslogic 545S. |
2742b299 | 68 | Buslogic 445S VLB SCSI controller |
e5e36938 | 69 | Buslogic 742A and 747. |
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70 | Buslogic 942A PCI |
71 | ||
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72 | Please see special notes in /usr/src/KNOWNBUGS (filed under bt742a.c) for |
73 | details concerning possible buggy firmware and undocumented switch settings | |
74fc2834 | 74 | that may be necessary for proper operation of your Bt445S controller. |
a6632a1f | 75 | |
51a64151 | 76 | DTC 3290 EISA SCSI controller in 1542 emulation mode. |
f82c2b3e | 77 | |
8157879c | 78 | Ultra Store 14F and 34F. |
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80 | Seagate ST01/02 SCSI controllers. |
81 | ||
82 | Future Domain 8xx/950 series SCSI controllers. | |
83 | ||
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84 | With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is provided for |
85 | SCSI-I & SCSI-II peripherals, including Disks, tape drives (including | |
f82c2b3e | 86 | DAT) and CD ROM drives. Note: This and the mcd driver (Mitsumi CDROM |
74fc2834 | 87 | interface card) is the only way a CD ROM drive may be currently |
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88 | attached to a FreeBSD system; we do not support SoundBlaster CDROM |
89 | interface, or other "mini SCSI" adapters. | |
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91 | Some controllers have limitations with the way they deal with >16MB of memory, |
92 | due to the fact that the ISA bus only has a DMA address space of 24 bits. | |
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93 | If you do your arithmetic, you'll see that this makes it impossible to do |
94 | direct DMA to any address >16MB. This limitation is even true of some | |
95 | EISA controllers (which are normally 32 bit) when they're configured to | |
96 | emulate an ISA card, which they then do in *all* respects. This problem | |
97 | is avoided entirely by IDE controllers (which do not use DMA), true EISA | |
51a64151 | 98 | controllers (like the UltraStor or Adaptec 1742A) and most VLB (local bus) |
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99 | controllers. In the cases where it's necessary, the system will use |
100 | "bounce buffers" to to talk to the controller so that you can still use | |
101 | more than 16Mb of memory without difficulty. | |
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103 | |
104 | 2.2. Ethernet cards | |
105 | ||
106 | SMC Elite 16 WD8013 ethernet interface, and most other WD8003E, | |
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107 | WD8003EBT, WD8003W, WD8013W, WD8003S, WD8003SBT and WD8013EBT |
108 | based clones. | |
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109 | |
110 | Isolan AT 4141-0 (16 bit) | |
111 | ||
112 | Isolink 4110 (8 bit) | |
113 | ||
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115 | |
116 | 3Com 3C503 Etherlink II | |
117 | ||
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118 | 3Com 3C509 Ethernet cards |
119 | ||
120 | Toshiba ethernet cards | |
121 | ||
5d542169 | 122 | SMC Elite Ultra |
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124 | |
125 | 2.3. Misc | |
126 | ||
fb6e6517 | 127 | AST 4 port serial card using shared IRQ. |
a6632a1f | 128 | |
fb6e6517 | 129 | ARNET 8 port serial card using shared IRQ. |
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131 | BOCA ATIO66 6 port serial card using shared IRQ. |
132 | ||
133 | STB 4 port card using shared IRQ. | |
134 | ||
95da515c | 135 | Mitsumi (all models) CDROM interface and drive. |
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137 | Adlib, Soundblaster, Soundblaster Pro, ProAudioSpectrum, Gravis UltraSound |
138 | and Roland MPU-401 sound cards. | |
139 | ||
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140 | FreeBSD currently does NOT support IBM's microchannel (MCA) bus, but |
141 | support is apparently close to materializing. Details will be posted | |
74fc2834 | 142 | as the situation develops. |
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145 | 3. Obtaining FreeBSD. |
146 | --------------------- | |
147 | ||
148 | You may obtain FreeBSD in a variety of ways: | |
149 | ||
150 | 1. FTP/Mail | |
151 | ||
152 | You can ftp FreeBSD and any or all of its optional packages from | |
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153 | `freebsd.cdrom.com' - the offical FreeBSD release site. |
154 | ||
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155 | For other locations that mirror the FreeBSD software see the file |
156 | MIRROR.SITES. Please ftp the distribution from the nearest site | |
157 | to you netwise. | |
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158 | |
159 | If you do not have access to the internet and electronic mail is your | |
160 | only recourse, then you may still fetch the files by sending mail to | |
161 | `ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com' - putting the keyword "help" in your message | |
162 | to get more information on how to fetch files from freebsd.cdrom.com. | |
163 | Note: This approach will end up sending many *tens of megabytes* | |
164 | through the mail, and should only be employed as an absolute LAST | |
165 | resort! | |
166 | ||
167 | ||
168 | 2. CDROM | |
169 | ||
74fc2834 | 170 | FreeBSD 1.1 may be ordered on CDROM from: |
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171 | |
172 | Walnut Creek CDROM | |
173 | 4041 Pike Lane, Suite D | |
174 | Concord CA 94520 | |
175 | 1-800-786-9907, +1-510-674-0783, +1-510-674-0821 (fax) | |
176 | ||
177 | Or via the internet from orders@cdrom.com. There current catalog can | |
178 | be obtained via ftp as ftp.cdrom.com:/cdrom/catalog. | |
a6632a1f | 179 | |
b7693172 | 180 | Cost is $39.95. Shipping (per order not per disc) is $5 in the US, Canada, |
f82c2b3e | 181 | or Mexico and $10.00 overseas. They accept Visa, Mastercard, American |
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182 | Express, and ship COD to the United States. California residents please |
183 | add 8.25% sales tax. | |
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184 | |
185 | Should you be dissatisfied for any reason, the CD comes with an | |
186 | unconditional return policy. | |
187 | ||
f82c2b3e | 188 | Note that Walnut Creek CDROM does NOT provide technical support for FreeBSD, |
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189 | you need to contact the FreeBSD team for that. Please see section 4 for |
190 | more information. | |
191 | ||
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193 | It should be noted, lest you get the wrong impression that "FreeBSD" |
194 | is anything but, that almost no one in the "core team" makes money | |
195 | from distributions or anything else connected with FreeBSD. We simply | |
196 | provide this information as a public service for those wishing to get | |
197 | their releases from somewhere other than the net (and the easier it | |
b5263fb6 | 198 | is for you to obtain our software, the happier we are). |
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199 | |
200 | ||
201 | 4. Reporting problems, making suggestions, submitting code. | |
202 | ----------------------------------------------------------- | |
203 | ||
204 | Your suggestions, bug reports and contributions of code are always | |
205 | valued - please do not hesitate to report any problems you may find | |
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206 | (preferably with a fix attached if you can!). |
207 | ||
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208 | The prefered method to submit bug reports from a machine with internet |
209 | mail connectivity is to use the sendbug command. Bug reports will be | |
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210 | dutifully filed by our faithful bugfiler program and you can be sure |
211 | that we'll do our best to respond to all reported bugs as soon as | |
212 | possible. | |
213 | ||
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214 | If, for some reason, you are unable to use the sendbug command to |
215 | submit a bug report, you can try to send it to: | |
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216 | |
217 | FreeBSD-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com | |
218 | ||
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219 | |
220 | Otherwise, for any questions or suggestions, please send mail to: | |
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221 | |
222 | FreeBSD-questions@freefall.cdrom.com | |
223 | ||
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224 | Additionally, being a volunteer effort, we are always happy to have |
225 | extra hands willing to help - there are already far more enhancements | |
226 | to be done than we can ever manage to do by ourselves! To contact us | |
227 | on technical matters, or with offers of help, you may send mail to: | |
228 | ||
229 | FreeBSD-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com | |
230 | ||
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231 | Since these mailing lists can experience significant amounts of |
232 | traffic, if you've got slow or expensive mail access and you're | |
233 | only interested in keeping up with significant FreeBSD events, you may | |
234 | find it preferable to subscribe to: | |
235 | ||
236 | FreeBSD-announce@freefall.cdrom.com | |
237 | ||
238 | ||
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239 | All but the FreeBSD-bugs groups can be freely joined by anyone wishing to |
240 | do so. Send mail to MajorDomo@freefall.cdrom.com and include the keyword | |
241 | `help' on a line by itself somewhere in the body of the message. This | |
242 | will give you more information on joining the various lists, accessing | |
243 | archives, etc. | |
244 | ||
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245 | |
246 | 5. Acknowledgements | |
247 | ------------------- | |
248 | ||
249 | FreeBSD represents the cumulative work of many dozens, if not | |
250 | hundreds, of individuals from around the world who have worked very | |
251 | hard to bring you this release. It would be very difficult, if not | |
252 | impossible, to enumerate everyone who's contributed to FreeBSD, but | |
253 | nonetheless we shall try (in alphabetical order, of course). If your | |
254 | name is not mentioned, please be assured that its omission is entirely | |
255 | accidental. | |
256 | ||
257 | ||
5acd5d1c | 258 | The Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG), U.C. Berkeley. |
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259 | |
260 | Bill Jolitz, for his extensive work with 386BSD. | |
261 | ||
74fc2834 | 262 | The FreeBSD "core" team: |
a6632a1f | 263 | |
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264 | Andrew A. Chernov |
265 | John Dyson | |
266 | David Greenman | |
267 | Rodney W. Grimes | |
268 | Jordan K. Hubbard | |
269 | Scott Mace | |
270 | Andrew Moore | |
271 | Rich Murphey | |
272 | Geoff Rehmet | |
273 | Paul Richards | |
274 | Andreas Schulz | |
275 | Nate Williams | |
276 | Garrett A. Wollman | |
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277 | |
278 | ||
279 | Special mention to: | |
280 | ||
281 | Robert Bruce and Jack Velte of Walnut Creek CDROM, without | |
282 | whose help (and continuing support) this release would never | |
283 | have been possible. | |
284 | ||
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285 | Dermot McDonnell for his donation of a Toshiba XM3401B CDROM |
286 | drive. | |
287 | ||
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288 | The NetBSD group for their frequent assistance and commentary. |
289 | ||
290 | Additional FreeBSD helpers and beta testers: | |
291 | ||
292 | Gary Browing Jon Cargille | |
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293 | J.T. Conklin Chris Demetriou |
294 | Julian Elischer Bruce Evans | |
295 | Sean Eric Fagan Guy Helmer | |
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296 | Jeffrey Hsu Terry Lambert |
297 | Gary Moyer Jaye Mathisen | |
298 | Curt Mayer L Jonas Olsson | |
299 | Chris Provenzano Dave Rivers | |
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300 | Guido van Rooij Steven Wallace |
301 | Rick Weldon Terry Williams | |
74fc2834 | 302 | Atsushi Murai |
a6632a1f | 303 | |
b5263fb6 | 304 | And everyone at Montana State University for their initial support. |
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305 | |
306 | ||
307 | Thanks to everyone, especially those not mentioned, and we sincerely | |
308 | hope you enjoy this release of FreeBSD! | |
309 | ||
310 | ||
74fc2834 | 311 | The FreeBSD Core Team |
a6632a1f | 312 | |
74fc2834 | 313 | $Id: RELNOTES.FreeBSD,v 1.33 1994/06/16 13:50:16 sean Exp $ |