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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and many out-of-date pieces of software were upgraded to their current | |||||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 | |||||
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