Index: en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/1.1.5.1/ANNOUNCEMENT.FreeBSD.txt =================================================================== --- en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/1.1.5.1/ANNOUNCEMENT.FreeBSD.txt +++ en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/1.1.5.1/ANNOUNCEMENT.FreeBSD.txt @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +From jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie Fri Jul 8 16:09:47 1994 +Path: sran230.sra.co.jp!sranhd.sra.co.jp!sranha.sra.co.jp!news.iij.ad.jp!wnoc-tyo-news!news.u-tokyo.ac.jp!sinetnews!daffy!uwvax!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!agate!usenet +From: jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan Hubbard) +Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.announce +Subject: [FreeBSD] FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 is now available on gatekeeper.dec.com +Followup-To: poster +Date: 5 Jul 1994 10:06:53 -0700 +Organization: Jordan Hubbard +Lines: 19 +Sender: cgd@agate.berkeley.edu +Approved: 386bsd-announce-request@agate.berkeley.edu +Message-ID: +Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com +NNTP-Posting-Host: agate.berkeley.edu + +This is a convenience release targeted primarily at people who have +not yet upgraded to FreeBSD 1.1.5R. It fixes a couple of trivial but +annoying problems in the release process (not the sources themselves). + +gatekeeper.dec.com:~ftp/pub/BSD/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-1.1.5.1-RELEASE + +Those who have already upgraded to 1.1.5R should read the +`WHATS_NEW-1.1.5.1' file for information on what steps to take to come +up to the level of 1.1.5.1R (they're very simple, don't panic). + +Thanks! + + Jordan + +-- +Jordan K. Hubbard FreeBSD core team Friend to mollusks +-- +Please send submissions for comp.os.386bsd.announce to: + 386bsd-announce@agate.berkeley.edu + +From jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie Sun Jul 10 16:23:15 1994 +Path: sran230.sra.co.jp!sranhd.sra.co.jp!sranha.sra.co.jp!news.iij.ad.jp!wnoc-tyo-news!news.u-tokyo.ac.jp!sinetnews!daffy!uwvax!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!agate!usenet +From: jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan Hubbard) +Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.announce +Subject: [FreeBSD] FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 is now available on gatekeeper.dec.com +Followup-To: poster +Date: 5 Jul 1994 10:06:53 -0700 +Organization: Jordan Hubbard +Lines: 19 +Sender: cgd@agate.berkeley.edu +Approved: 386bsd-announce-request@agate.berkeley.edu +Message-ID: +Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com +NNTP-Posting-Host: agate.berkeley.edu + +This is a convenience release targeted primarily at people who have +not yet upgraded to FreeBSD 1.1.5R. It fixes a couple of trivial but +annoying problems in the release process (not the sources themselves). + +gatekeeper.dec.com:~ftp/pub/BSD/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-1.1.5.1-RELEASE + +Those who have already upgraded to 1.1.5R should read the +`WHATS_NEW-1.1.5.1' file for information on what steps to take to come +up to the level of 1.1.5.1R (they're very simple, don't panic). + +Thanks! + + Jordan + +-- +Jordan K. Hubbard FreeBSD core team Friend to mollusks +-- +Please send submissions for comp.os.386bsd.announce to: + 386bsd-announce@agate.berkeley.edu + +$FreeBSD: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/1.1.5.1/ANNOUNCEMENT.FreeBSD 49814 2017-01-09 21:30:25Z sevan $ Index: en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/1.1.5.1/Makefile =================================================================== --- en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/1.1.5.1/Makefile +++ en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/1.1.5.1/Makefile @@ -6,6 +6,6 @@ .include "../Makefile.inc" .endif -DATA= ANNOUNCEMENT.FreeBSD WHATS_NEW-1.1.5.1 +DATA= ANNOUNCEMENT.FreeBSD.txt WHATS_NEW-1.1.5.1.txt .include "${DOC_PREFIX}/share/mk/web.site.mk" Index: en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/1.1.5.1/WHATS_NEW-1.1.5.1.txt =================================================================== --- en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/1.1.5.1/WHATS_NEW-1.1.5.1.txt +++ en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/1.1.5.1/WHATS_NEW-1.1.5.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,109 @@ +Yes, it's a point release only 3 days after the last one! A new record +for us! :-) In general, this is NOT something we'd actually generally do +but 1.1.5 is a special case, being our last release for this branch and one +likely to be used for some time. It's worth-while to make sure that as many +of the obvious stumbling blocks are removed, if only to reduce our question +load! :) + +Those of you who are staring at this release in indisguised horror after +downloading the entire 1.1.5R release need not worry - upgrading from +1.1.5R to 1.1.5.1R is easy, and I'll show this step by step as I document +each change below. + + +List of (reported) problems fixed: +---------------------------------- + +PROBLEM 1: Telnet/rlogin/su falls over with: + ld.so: vi: libcrypt.so.1.1: No such file or directory + +CAUSE: During the `non-crypt' build only the libcrypt.a library was removed, +leaving a dependency on libcrypt.so.1.1. This library is not shipped with +the exportable release, for obvious reasons. + +FIX FOR 1.1.5R USERS: 1.1.5R users must install the secrdist. In the U.S., +this is easy - just install the one provided with 1.1.5R and skip ahead to +problem 2 since the rest that follows is for non-domestic users only. + +Abroad, this is a little harder in that users must grab one of the `foreign' +secrdists from one of the following two sites: + + South Africa: braae.ru.ac.za:/pub/FreeBSD/securedist/ + owl.und.ac.za (currently uncertain) + Iceland: ftp.veda.is:/pub/crypt/FreeBSD/ + +These secrdists are compiled for FreeBSD 1.1R, and as such have a shared +library revision number of 1.0 for libcrypt. This library has NOT changed, +so what I recommend is NOT to install the entire secrdist using the EXTRACT +script, but to simply do the following in a temporary directory somewhere: + + Extract the des tarball as follows: + + cat des_tgz.a* | tar xvzf - + + Move the 1.1 libcrypt shared library (which has NOT changed, despite the + version number bump) into place like so: + + mv usr/lib/libcrypt.so.1.0 /usr/lib/libcrypt.so.1.1 + +This will leave you a full set of 1.1.5R binaries and a working crypt library. + + +PROBLEM 2: Installation onto wd1 fails after insertion of filesystem disk. + +CAUSE: The filesystem floppy didn't have device entries for wd1, making + installations onto the second drive fail for IDE drives (it works + for SCSI drives, which were my test case :-( ). + +FIX FOR 1.1.5R USERS: Just grab the filesystem floppy from 1.1.5.1R. + + +PROBLEM 3: There are .o files in the sys.* collection of the srcdist. + +CAUSE: The src-tarball target in the installation procedure forgot to + clean the GENERIC* kernels out before bunding! :( + +FIX FOR 1.1.5R USERS: If you've already grabbed it, don't sweat it - just +remove the extra files and be happy! If not (say you've already grabbed +the 1.1.5R bindist but not the srcdist), then simply grab the 1.1.5.1R +srcdist. + + +PROBLEM 4: EXTRACT.sh in the srcdist can't find the `bin.*' files. + +CAUSE: I moved the bin.aa and bin.ab files to srcbin.aa and srcbin.ab + in order to avoid problems with the `extract' command, but forgot + to update the EXTRACT.sh script. + +FIX FOR 1.1.5R USERS: Simply use the `extract' command on srcbin, or +edit the EXTRACT.sh script to look for srcbin.* instead of bin.* (it's +the second extract from the top, after base.*). You can also simply grab the +EXTRACT.sh file from 1.1.5.1's srcdist. + + +PROBLEM 5: Kerberos source code missing. + +CAUSE: This wasn't really a problem so much as a deliberate omission. + Kerberos support was never fully integrated from the binary + distribution point of view and my initial decision was to + simply leave it out. I've since reconsidered this decision somewhat + and decided to make the drop-in sources available at least since + there's no harm in doing so and they work quite well. This is, of + course, encription software subject to the SAME EXPORT RESTRICTIONS + as the DES code. Do NOT grab the secrdist distribution if you're + outside the U.S.! + +FIX FOR 1.1.5R USERS: Grab the 1.1.5.1 secrdist. + +That's it! See, I told you it wasn't so bad! :-) Of purely academic +interest will probably also be the changes to /usr/src/etc/Makefile +I had to make to fix all the problems above (these were ALL release +problems, not source problems). I'll be including a diff in this +directory shortly. + +Thanks, and sorry for the inconvenience some of these problems may have +caused 1.1.5R users! + + Jordan + +$FreeBSD: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/1.1.5.1/WHATS_NEW-1.1.5.1 49814 2017-01-09 21:30:25Z sevan $ Index: en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/1.1.5/Makefile =================================================================== --- en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/1.1.5/Makefile +++ en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/1.1.5/Makefile @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ DATA= CONTRIB.386BSD CONTRIB.FreeBSD COPYRIGHT.386BSD DATA+= COPYRIGHT.FreeBSD COPYRIGHT.USL KNOWNBUGS MIRROR.SITES -DATA+= PERSONAL.ACKS REGISTER.FreeBSD RELNOTES.FreeBSD ROSTER.FreeBSD -DATA+= SUPPORT.TXT TODO-1.1.5 WHATS_NEW-1.1.5 +DATA+= PERSONAL.ACKS REGISTER.FreeBSD RELNOTES.FreeBSD.txt ROSTER.FreeBSD +DATA+= SUPPORT.TXT TODO-1.1.5 WHATS_NEW-1.1.5.txt .include "${DOC_PREFIX}/share/mk/web.site.mk" Index: en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/1.1.5/RELNOTES.FreeBSD.txt =================================================================== --- en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/1.1.5/RELNOTES.FreeBSD.txt +++ en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/1.1.5/RELNOTES.FreeBSD.txt @@ -0,0 +1,313 @@ + RELEASE NOTES + FreeBSD + Release 1.1.5 + +1. Technical overview +--------------------- + +FreeBSD is a freely available, full source 4.3 (+4.4 enhancements) BSD +release for Intel i386/i486 (or compatable) based PC's. It is based +on Bill Jolitz's 386BSD 0.1, with additions from "the patchkit", +NetBSD, CSRG, and the Free Software Foundation. + +Since our first release of FreeBSD 1.0, many hundreds of bugs have been +fixed, features added, and the overall quality of the system improved +almost imeasurably. FreeBSD 1.1.5 represents the culmination of almost +18 months of work and many thousands of man hours put in by our all-volunteer +working group. We hope you enjoy it! + +Many packages have also been upgraded or added, such as XFree86 2.1, +xview 3.2, elm, nntp, mh, InterViews and dozens of other miscellaneous +utilities have been ported and are now available as add-ons. See the next +section of this document for more details. + +For a list of contributors, please see the files "CONTRIB.FreeBSD" and +"CONTRIB.386BSD", which should be bundled with your distribution. + +Also see the new "REGISTER.FreeBSD" file for information on registering +with the "Free BSD user counter". We've also provided a list of who's +responsible for what (so that you may query them directly) in the +"ROSTER.FreeBSD" file; use of this file is encouraged to ensure faster +resolution of an problems you may have! + +The core of FreeBSD does not contain DES code which would inhibit its +being exported outside the United States. There is an add-on package +to the core distribution, for use only in the United States, that +contains the programs that normally use DES. The auxiliary packages +provided separately can be used by anyone. A freely (from outside the U.S.) +exportable European distribution of DES for our non U.S. users also exists +and is described in the FreeBSD FAQ. + + +2. Supported Configurations +--------------------------- + +FreeBSD currently runs on a wide variety of ISA, 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. + +Following is a list of all currently known disk controllers and +ethernet cards known to work with FreeBSD. Other configurations may +very well work, and we have simply not received any indication of +this. + + +2.1. Disk Controllers + +WD1003 (any generic MFM/RLL) +WD1007 (any generic IDE/ESDI) + +Adaptec 154x series ISA SCSI controller (as long as you have less than +16MB of main memory). + +Adaptec 174x series EISA SCSI controller in standard and enhanced mode. + +[Note that Buslogic was formerly known as "Bustec"] +Buslogic 545S. +Buslogic 445S VLB SCSI controller +Buslogic 742A and 747. +Buslogic 942A PCI + +Please see special notes in /usr/src/KNOWNBUGS (filed under bt742a.c) for +details concerning possible buggy firmware and undocumented switch settings +that may be necessary for proper operation of your Bt445S controller. + +DTC 3290 EISA SCSI controller in 1542 emulation mode. + +Ultra Store 14F and 34F. + +Seagate ST01/02 SCSI controllers. + +Future Domain 8xx/950 series SCSI controllers. + +With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is provided for +SCSI-I & SCSI-II peripherals, including Disks, tape drives (including +DAT) and CD ROM drives. Note: This and the mcd driver (Mitsumi CDROM +interface card) is the only way a CD ROM drive may be currently +attached to a FreeBSD system; we do not support SoundBlaster CDROM +interface, or other "mini SCSI" adapters. + +Some controllers have limitations with the way they deal with >16MB of memory, +due to the fact that the ISA bus only has a DMA address space of 24 bits. +If you do your arithmetic, you'll see that this makes it impossible to do +direct DMA to any address >16MB. This limitation is even true of some +EISA controllers (which are normally 32 bit) when they're configured to +emulate an ISA card, which they then do in *all* respects. This problem +is avoided entirely by IDE controllers (which do not use DMA), true EISA +controllers (like the UltraStor or Adaptec 1742A) and most VLB (local bus) +controllers. In the cases where it's necessary, the system will use +"bounce buffers" to talk to the controller so that you can still use +more than 16Mb of memory without difficulty. + + +2.2. Ethernet cards + +SMC Elite 16 WD8013 ethernet interface, and most other WD8003E, +WD8003EBT, WD8003W, WD8013W, WD8003S, WD8003SBT and WD8013EBT +based clones. + +Isolan AT 4141-0 (16 bit) + +Isolink 4110 (8 bit) + +Novell NE1000, NE2000, and NE2100 ethernet interface. + +3Com 3C503 Etherlink II + +3Com 3C509 Ethernet cards + +Toshiba ethernet cards + +SMC Elite Ultra + + +2.3. Misc + +AST 4 port serial card using shared IRQ. + +ARNET 8 port serial card using shared IRQ. + +BOCA ATIO66 6 port serial card using shared IRQ. + +STB 4 port card using shared IRQ. + +Mitsumi (all models) CDROM interface and drive. + +Adlib, Soundblaster, Soundblaster Pro, ProAudioSpectrum, Gravis UltraSound +and Roland MPU-401 sound cards. + +FreeBSD currently does NOT support IBM's microchannel (MCA) bus, but +support is apparently close to materializing. Details will be posted +as the situation develops. + + +3. Obtaining FreeBSD. +--------------------- + +You may obtain FreeBSD in a variety of ways: + +1. FTP/Mail + +You can ftp FreeBSD and any or all of its optional packages from +`freebsd.cdrom.com' - the official FreeBSD release site. + +For other locations that mirror the FreeBSD software see the file +MIRROR.SITES. Please ftp the distribution from the nearest site +to you netwise. + +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 from freebsd.cdrom.com. +Note: This approach will end up sending many *tens of megabytes* +through the mail, and should only be employed as an absolute LAST +resort! + + +2. CDROM + +FreeBSD 1.1 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. There current catalog can +be obtained via ftp as ftp.cdrom.com:/cdrom/catalog. + +Cost is $39.95. Shipping (per order not per disc) is $5 in the US, Canada, +or Mexico and $10.00 overseas. They accept Visa, Mastercard, American +Express, and ship COD to 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. + +Note that Walnut Creek CDROM does NOT provide technical support for FreeBSD, +you need to contact the FreeBSD team for that. Please see section 4 for +more information. + + +It should be noted, lest you get the wrong impression that "FreeBSD" +is anything but, that almost no one in the "core team" makes money +from distributions or anything else connected with FreeBSD. We simply +provide this information as a public service for those wishing to get +their releases from somewhere other than the net (and the easier it +is for you to obtain our software, the happier we are). + + +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 prefered method to submit bug reports from a machine with internet +mail connectivity is to use the sendbug command. 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. + +If, for some reason, you are unable to use the sendbug command to +submit a bug report, you can try to send it to: + + FreeBSD-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com + + +Otherwise, for any questions or suggestions, please send mail to: + + FreeBSD-questions@freefall.cdrom.com + +Additionally, being a volunteer effort, we are always happy to have +extra hands willing to help - there are already far more enhancements +to be done than we can ever manage to do by ourselves! To contact us +on technical matters, or with offers of help, you may send mail to: + + FreeBSD-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com + +Since these mailing lists can experience significant amounts of +traffic, if you've got slow or expensive mail access and you're +only interested in keeping up with significant FreeBSD events, you may +find it preferable to subscribe to: + + FreeBSD-announce@freefall.cdrom.com + + +All but the FreeBSD-bugs groups can be freely joined by anyone wishing to +do so. Send mail to MajorDomo@freefall.cdrom.com 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. + + +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. It would be very difficult, if not +impossible, to enumerate everyone who's contributed to FreeBSD, but +nonetheless we shall try (in alphabetical order, of course). If your +name is not mentioned, please be assured that its omission is entirely +accidental. + + +The Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG), U.C. Berkeley. + +Bill Jolitz, for his extensive work with 386BSD. + +The FreeBSD "core" team: + + Andrew A. Chernov + John Dyson + David Greenman + Rodney W. Grimes + Jordan K. Hubbard + Scott Mace + Andrew Moore + Rich Murphey + Geoff Rehmet + Paul Richards + Andreas Schulz + Nate Williams + Garrett A. Wollman + + +Special mention to: + + Robert Bruce and Jack Velte of 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. + + The NetBSD group for their frequent assistance and commentary. + + Additional FreeBSD helpers and beta testers: + + Gary Browing Jon Cargille + J.T. Conklin Chris Demetriou + Julian Elischer Bruce Evans + Sean Eric Fagan Guy Helmer + Jeffrey Hsu Terry Lambert + Gary Moyer Jaye Mathisen + Curt Mayer L Jonas Olsson + Chris Provenzano Dave Rivers + Guido van Rooij Steven Wallace + Rick Weldon Terry Williams + Atsushi Murai + + And everyone at Montana State University for their initial support. + + +Thanks to everyone, especially those not mentioned, and we sincerely +hope you enjoy this release of FreeBSD! + + + The FreeBSD Core Team + +$FreeBSD: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/1.1.5/RELNOTES.FreeBSD 38826 2012-05-17 19:12:14Z hrs $ Index: en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/1.1.5/WHATS_NEW-1.1.5.txt =================================================================== --- en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/1.1.5/WHATS_NEW-1.1.5.txt +++ en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/1.1.5/WHATS_NEW-1.1.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,80 @@ +What's new in 1.1.5? Well... Let's try and count the ways.. + +-- KERNEL IMPROVEMENTS SINCE FreeBSD 1.1 -- + +1) Bounce buffers. This allows systems to use bus master ISA controllers + in systems with more than 16MB of memory. + +2) VM performance improvements. Many new enhancements to the Mach derived + VM system including page table preloading (dramatically reduces page + faults); page usage statistics gathering (improves page replacement + thus reducing thrashing); clustered page-ins and page-outs (reduces + paging I/O overhead). + +3) Overall kernel performance improvements. Some critical functions have + been inlined; the trap, pmap, and other critical code has been + optimized, etc. + +4) Improved scheduling algorithm. Improves interactive performance on + busy machines, expecially in cases where lots of software builds are + occurring. + +5) Disk I/O clustering. Improves the I/O speed dramatically on most disk + drives. + +6) Vastly superior optional floating point emulator from Bill Metzenthen. + Faster and more reliable/accurate/complete emulation and has fewer bugs. + Provided as an option in the kernel (the original emulator is still + the default). + +7) IP Multicast support. Allows reception of Internet multicast packets. + +8) Improved sound support. Version 2.5 of Hannu Savolainen's VoxWare sound + drivers. Supports SoundBlaster, PAS, GUS, and other common sound boards. + +9) New device support for the Seagate ST01/ST02 and Future Domain 950 SCSI + adapters. + +10) X10 device driver from Gene Stark for X-10 style remote power control. + (such as Radio Shack "Plug 'n Power") + +11) PS/2 mouse driver from Erik Forsberg. + +12) Busmouse driver from Rick Macklem. + +13) IBM/National PCMCIA ethernet driver from Keith Moore. + +14) Improved floppy driver support. + +15) Much improved syscons driver (now default) with user-editable ascii + keymaps and many other new features. + +16) Many improvements and fixes to nearly every supported device driver. + +17) Many improvements and fixes scattered throughout the kernel. + +18) New pcaudio driver allows `Sun style' .au files to be played through the + speaker. + +19) Substantial changes in sio for supporting multiport and bidirectional + comms. Please see the sio man page for details. + +-- USER CODE IMPROVEMENTS SINCE FreeBSD 1.1 -- + +1) Man pages now compressed by default, saving quite a bit of space for + small configurations. + +2) S/Key one-time password support for enhanced network security. + +3) Many many bug fixes and miscellaneous enhancements. + +4) Sun math library now available for faster FPU support (see #5). + +5) New /etc/make.conf mechanism allows users to tailor how their systems + are built (from source) and switch various options on and off. + +6) C++ shared libs are now fully supported (and libg++ shared by default). + +7) The programs `vidcontrol' and `kbdcontrol' replace the old `syscons'. + +$FreeBSD: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/1.1.5/WHATS_NEW-1.1.5 49814 2017-01-09 21:30:25Z sevan $ Index: en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/1.1/Makefile =================================================================== --- en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/1.1/Makefile +++ en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/1.1/Makefile @@ -8,6 +8,6 @@ .endif DATA= CONTRIB.386BSD CONTRIB.FreeBSD COPYRIGHT.386BSD COPYRIGHT.FreeBSD -DATA+= MIRROR.SITES PERSONAL.ACKS RELNOTES.FreeBSD SUPPORT.TXT +DATA+= MIRROR.SITES PERSONAL.ACKS RELNOTES.FreeBSD.txt SUPPORT.TXT .include "${DOC_PREFIX}/share/mk/web.site.mk" Index: en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/1.1/RELNOTES.FreeBSD.txt =================================================================== --- en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/1.1/RELNOTES.FreeBSD.txt +++ en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/1.1/RELNOTES.FreeBSD.txt @@ -0,0 +1,303 @@ + RELEASE NOTES + FreeBSD + Release 1.1 + +1. Technical overview +--------------------- + +FreeBSD is a freely available, full source 4.3 (+4.4 enhancements) BSD +release for Intel i386/i486 (or compatable) based PC's. It is based +heavily on Bill Jolitz's 386BSD 0.1, with additions from "the patchkit", +NetBSD, CSRG, and the Free Software Foundation. + +Many hundreds of bugs from the 386BSD 0.1 distribution were fixed, +and many out-of-date pieces of software were upgraded to their current +releases in the GAMMA distribution. This 1.1 distribution fixes +many of the first-run problems our BETA and GAMMA users reported back +to us. + +Additionally, many packages such as XFree86 2.1, xview 3.2, elm, nntp, +mh, InterViews and dozens of other miscellaneous utilities have been ported +and are now available as add-ons. See then next section of this document +for more details. + +For a list of contributors, please see the files "CONTRIB.FreeBSD" and +"CONTRIB.386BSD", which should be bundled with your distribution. + +The core of FreeBSD does not contain DES code which would inhibit its +being exported outside the United States. There is an add-on package +to the core distribution, for use only in the United States, that +contains the programs that normally use DES. The auxiliary packages +provided separately can be used by anyone. A freely (from outside the U.S.) +exportable European distribution of DES for our non U.S. users also exists +and is described in the FreeBSD FAQ. + + +2. Supported Configurations +--------------------------- + +FreeBSD currently runs on a wide variety of ISA and EISA bus based +PC's, ranging from 386sx to 486 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. + +Following is a list of all currently known disk controllers and +ethernet cards known to work with FreeBSD. Other configurations may +very well work, and we have simply not received any indication of +this. + + +2.1. Disk Controllers + +WD1003 (any generic MFM/RLL) +WD1007 (any generic IDE/ESDI) + +Adaptec 154x series ISA SCSI controller (as long as you have less than +16MB of main memory). + +Adaptec 174x series EISA SCSI controller in standard and enhanced mode. + +[Note that Buslogic was formerly known as "Bustec"] +Buslogic 545S. +Buslogic 445S VLB SCSI controller +Buslogic 742A and 747. +Please see special notes in /usr/src/KNOWNBUGS (filed under bt742a.c) for +details concerning possible buggy firmware and undocumented switch settings +that may be necessary for proper operation of your controller. + +DTC 3290 EISA SCSI controller in 1542 emulation mode. + +Ultra Store 14F and 34F. + +Seagate ST01/02 SCSI controllers. + +Future Domain 8xx/950 series SCSI controllers. + +With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is provided for +SCSI-I & SCSI-II peripherals, including Disks, tape drives (including +DAT) and CD ROM drives. Note: This and the mcd driver (Mitsumi CDROM +interface card) is the only way a CD ROM drive may be currently +attached to a FreeBSD system; we do not support SoundBlaster CDROM +interface, or other "mini SCSI" adapters. + +Some controllers have limitations with the way they deal with >16MB of memory, +due to the fact that the ISA bus only has a DMA address space of 24 bits. +If you do your arithmetic, you'll see that this makes it impossible to do +direct DMA to any address >16MB. This limitation is even true of some +EISA controllers (which are normally 32 bit) when they're configured to +emulate an ISA card, which they then do in *all* respects. This problem +is avoided entirely by IDE controllers (which do not use DMA), true EISA +controllers (like the UltraStor or Adaptec 1742A) and most VLB (local bus) +controllers. In these cases, the system will use "bounce buffers" to +to talk to the controller, and is generally the default. + + +2.2. Ethernet cards + +SMC Elite 16 WD8013 ethernet interface, and most other WD8003E, +WD8003EBT, WD8003W, WD8013W, WD8003S, WD8003SBT and WD8013EBT +based clones. + +Isolan AT 4141-0 (16 bit) + +Isolink 4110 (8 bit) + +Novell NE1000, NE2000, and NE2100 ethernet interface. + +3Com 3C503 Etherlink II + +3Com 3C509 Ethernet cards + +Toshiba ethernet cards + +SMC Elite Ultra + + +2.3. Misc + +AST 4 port serial card using shared IRQ. + +ARNET 8 port serial card using shared IRQ. + +BOCA ATIO66 6 port serial card using shared IRQ. + +STB 4 port card using shared IRQ. + +Mitsumi (all models) CDROM interface and drive. + +Adlib, Soundblaster, Soundblaster Pro, ProAudioSpectrum, Gravis UltraSound +and Roland MPU-401 sound cards. + +FreeBSD currently does NOT support IBM's microchannel (MCA) bus, but +support is apparently close to materializing. Details will be posted +as they develop. + + +3. Obtaining FreeBSD. +--------------------- + +You may obtain FreeBSD in a variety of ways: + +1. FTP/Mail + +You can ftp FreeBSD and any or all of its optional packages from +`freebsd.cdrom.com' - the official FreeBSD release site. + +For other locations that mirror the FreeBSD software see the file +MIRROR.SITES. Please ftp the distribution from the nearest site +to you netwise. + +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 from freebsd.cdrom.com. +Note: This approach will end up sending many *tens of megabytes* +through the mail, and should only be employed as an absolute LAST +resort! + + +2. CDROM + +FreeBSD 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. There current catalog can +be obtained via ftp as ftp.cdrom.com:/cdrom/catalog. + +Cost is $39.95. Shipping (per order not per disc) is $5 in the US, Canada, +or Mexico and $10.00 overseas. They accept Visa, Mastercard, American +Express, and ship COD to 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. + +Note that Walnut Creek CDROM does NOT provide technical support for FreeBSD, +you need to contact the FreeBSD team for that. Please see section 4 for +more information. + + +It should be noted, lest you get the wrong impression that "FreeBSD" +is anything but, that almost no one in the "core team" makes money +from distributions or anything else connected with FreeBSD. We simply +provide this information as a public service for those wishing to get +their releases from somewhere other than the net (and the easier it +is for you to obtain our software, the happier we are). + + +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 prefered method to submit bug reports from a machine with internet +mail connectivity is to use the sendbug command. 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. + +If, for some reason, you are unable to use the sendbug command to +submit a bug report, you can try to send it to: + + FreeBSD-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com + + +Otherwise, for any questions or suggestions, please send mail to: + + FreeBSD-questions@freefall.cdrom.com + +Additionally, being a volunteer effort, we are always happy to have +extra hands willing to help - there are already far more enhancements +to be done than we can ever manage to do by ourselves! To contact us +on technical matters, or with offers of help, you may send mail to: + + FreeBSD-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com + +Since these mailing lists can experience significant amounts of +traffic, if you've got slow or expensive mail access and you're +only interested in keeping up with significant FreeBSD events, you may +find it preferable to subscribe to: + + FreeBSD-announce@freefall.cdrom.com + + +All but the FreeBSD-bugs groups can be freely joined by anyone wishing to +do so. Send mail to MajorDomo@freefall.cdrom.com 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. + + +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. It would be very difficult, if not +impossible, to enumerate everyone who's contributed to FreeBSD, but +nonetheless we shall try (in alphabetical order, of course). If your +name is not mentioned, please be assured that its omission is entirely +accidental. + + +The Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG), U.C. Berkeley. + +Bill Jolitz, for his extensive work with 386BSD. + +The FreeBSD "core" group: + + Andrew A. Chernov + John Dyson + David Greenman + Rodney W. Grimes + Jordan K. Hubbard + Scott Mace + Andrew Moore + Rich Murphey + Geoff Rehmet + Paul Richards + Andreas Schulz + Nate Williams + Garrett A. Wollman + + +Special mention to: + + Robert Bruce and Jack Velte of 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. + + The NetBSD group for their frequent assistance and commentary. + + Additional FreeBSD helpers and beta testers: + + Gary Browing Jon Cargille + J.T. Conklin Chris Demetriou + Julian Elischer Bruce Evans + Sean Eric Fagan Guy Helmer + Jeffrey Hsu Terry Lambert + Gary Moyer Jaye Mathisen + Curt Mayer L Jonas Olsson + Chris Provenzano Dave Rivers + Guido van Rooij Steven Wallace + Rick Weldon Terry Williams + + And everyone at Montana State University for their initial support. + + +Thanks to everyone, especially those not mentioned, and we sincerely +hope you enjoy this release of FreeBSD! + + + The FreeBSD Core Group + +$FreeBSD: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/1.1/RELNOTES.FreeBSD 38826 2012-05-17 19:12:14Z hrs $ Index: en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/index.xml =================================================================== --- en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/index.xml +++ en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/index.xml @@ -776,21 +776,21 @@
  • 1.1.5.1 (July, 1994) - Announcement : - What's New + Announcement : + What's New
  • 1.1.5 - Release Notes - What's New + Release Notes + What's New
  • 1.1 (May, 1994) - Release Notes + Release Notes