INSTALLATION NOTES for NetBSD/alpha 1.3
Be sure to read _ALL_ of this document before you try to install
NetBSD/alpha.
What is NetBSD?
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The NetBSD Operating System is a fully functional UN*X-like system
derived from the Berkeley Networking Release 2 (Net/2), 4.4BSD-Lite,
and 4.4BSD-Lite2 sources. NetBSD runs on many architectures and is
being ported to more.
NetBSD is a creation of the members of the Internet community.
Without the unique cooperation and coordination the net makes
possible, it's likely that this release wouldn't have come about.
The NetBSD 1.3 release is a landmark. Building upon the successful
NetBSD 1.2 release, we have provided numerous and significant
functional enhancements, including support for many new devices,
integration of many bug fixes, new and updated kernel subsystems, and
many userland enhancements. The results of these improvements is a
stable operating system fit for production use that rivals most
commercially available systems.
It is impossible to summarize the 18 months of development that went
into the NetBSD 1.3 release. Some of the significant changes include:
Support for machine independent device drivers has been
radically improved with the addition of the "bus.h" interface,
providing a high quality abstraction for machine and
architecture independent device access.
The bus_dma interface has also been integrated, providing a
machine-independent abstraction for DMA mapping. This permits many
good things, including (among many) clean multi-platform
bounce buffer support.
Framework support for ISA "Plug and Play" has been added, as
well as support for numerous "Plug and Play" devices.
APM support has been added to NetBSD/i386.
An initial cut of multi-platform PCMCIA support has been added.
Support for ATAPI devices (initially just ATAPI CD-ROM drives)
has been added.
Support for Sun 3/80s (sun3x architecture) has been added.
Support for R4000 DECstations has been added.
Integration/merger of 4.4BSD Lite-2 sources into userland
programs has nearly been completed.
Most of userland now compiles with high levels of gcc warnings
turned on, which has lead to the discovery and elimination of
many bugs.
The i386 boot blocks have been completely replaced with a new,
libsa based two stage boot system. This has permitted
integration of compressed boot support (see below).
Many ports now support booting of compressed kernels, and
feature new "Single Floppy" install systems that boot
compressed install kernels and ramdisks. We intend to do
substantial work on improving ease of installation in the
future.
"ypserv" has been added, thus completing our support for the
"yp" network information system suite.
Support for the Linux "ext2fs" filesystem and for FAT32 "msdosfs"
filesystems has been added.
TCP now has a SYN "compressed state engine" which provides
increased robustness under high levels of received SYNs (as in
the case of "SYN flood" attacks.) (Much of this code was
derived from sources provided by BSDI.)
An initial implementation of Path MTU discovery has been
integrated (though it is not turned on by default).
An initial kernel based random number generator pseudodevice has
been added.
Several major fixes have been integrated for the VM subsystem,
including the fix of a notorious VM leak, improved
synchronization between mmap()ed and open()ed files, and
massively improved performance in low real memory conditions.
A new swap subsystem has radically improved configuration and
management of swap devices and adds swapping to files.
Userland ntp support, including xntpd, has been integrated.
The audio subsystems have been substantially debugged and
improved, and now offer substantial emulation of the OSS audio
interface, thus providing the ability to cleanly run emulated
Linux and FreeBSD versions of sound intensive programs.
A "packages" system has been adapted from FreeBSD and will
provide binary package installations for third party
applications.
The XFree86 X source tree has been made a supported part of
the NetBSD distribution, and X servers (if built for this
port), libraries and utilities are now shipped with our releases.
The ftp(1) program has been made astoundingly overfunctional.
It supports command line editing, tab completion, status bars,
automatic download of URLs specified on the command line,
firewall support and many other features.
All ports now use "new" config. Old config has been laid to rest.
The ARP subsystem and API has been rewritten to make it less
ethernet-centric.
A new if_media subsystem has been added which allows network
interfaces to be configured using media type names rather than
device-specific mode bits.
Many kernel interface manual pages have been added to manual
section 9.
Several ports support much more hardware.
Many updates to bring NetBSD closer to standards compliance.
Most third party packages have been updated to the latest stable
release.
As has been noted, there have also been innumerable bug fixes.
Kernel interfaces have continued to be refined, and more subsystems
and device drivers are shared among the different ports. You can look
for this trend to continue.
NetBSD 1.3 also includes some refinement to the NetBSD binary emulation
system (which includes FreeBSD, HP-UX, iBCS2, Linux, OSF/1, SunOS, SVR4,
Solaris and Ultrix compatibility), bringing NetBSD closer to the goal of
making the emulation as accurate as possible.
In the near future, we hope to integrate a fully rewritten Virtual
Memory subsystem, kernel threads, and SMP support.
There have been many, many Alpha-specific enchancements since the
1.2 release. These include:
* Supporting more system types (including the 8200/8400).
* Making many more device drivers (mostly from the i386 port)
work on the alpha.
* Changing the object file format from COFF to ELF, and adding
shared library support
NetBSD 1.3 on alpha is, as usual, also fully backward compatible
with old NetBSD/alpha binaries, so you don't need to recompile all
your local programs.
The Future of NetBSD:
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The NetBSD Foundation has been incorporated as a non-profit
organization. Its purpose is to encourage, foster and promote the
free exchange of computer software, namely the NetBSD Operating
System. The foundation will allow for many things to be handled more
smoothly than could be done with our previous informal organization.
In particular, it provides the framework to deal with other parties
that wish to become involved in the NetBSD Project.
The NetBSD Foundation will help improve the quality of NetBSD by:
* providing better organization to keep track of development
efforts, including co-ordination with groups working in
related fields.
* providing a framework to receive donations of goods and
services and to own the resources necessary to run the
NetBSD Project.
* providing a better position from which to undertake
promotional activities.
* periodically organizing workshops for developers and other
interested people to discuss ongoing work.
We hope to have regular releases of the full binary and source trees,
but these are difficult to coordinate, especially with all of the
architectures which we now support!
We hope to support even _more_ hardware in the future, and have a
rather large number of other ideas about what can be done to improve
NetBSD.
We intend to continue our current practice of making the
NetBSD-current development source available on a daily basis.
We intend to integrate free, positive changes from whatever sources
will provide them, providing that they are well thought-out and
increase the usability of the system.
Above all, we hope to create a stable and accessible system, and to be
responsive to the needs and desires of NetBSD users, because it is for
and because of them that NetBSD exists.
Sources of NetBSD:
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NetBSD Mirror Site List
The following sites mirror NetBSD as of Sep 22, 1997
If you wish to become a distribution site for NetBSD, contact
mirrors@netbsd.org.
FTP mirrors
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Australia
* ftp://ftp.au.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD
Brazil
* ftp://ftp.ravel.ufrj.br/pub/NetBSD
Germany
* ftp://ftp.de.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD
* ftp://ftp.uni-regensburg.de/pub/comp/os/NetBSD
Japan
* ftp://netbsd.tohoku.ac.jp/NetBSD
Netherlands
* ftp://ftp.nl.netbsd.org/pub/comp/NetBSD
Norway
* ftp://ftp.ntnu.no/pub/NetBSD
* ftp://skarven.itea.ntnu.no/pub/NetBSD
Sweden
* ftp://ftp.stacken.kth.se/pub/OS/NetBSD
* ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/NetBSD
UK
* ftp://ftp.DOMINO.ORG/pub/NetBSD
USA
* ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD
* ftp://ftp.cs.umn.edu/pub/NetBSD
* ftp://ftp.cslab.vt.edu/pub/NetBSD
* ftp://ftp.eecs.umich.edu/pub/NetBSD
* ftp://ftp.iastate.edu/pub/netbsd
* ftp://ftp.op.net/pub/NetBSD
SUP mirrors
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Australia
* ftp.au.netbsd.org
Instructions: ftp://sup.au.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/sup/README.sup
Germany
* ftp.de.netbsd.org
Instructions: ftp://sup.de.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/sup/supfile.example
Norway
* skarven.itea.ntnu.no
Instructions: Use this line as your sup file to get /usr/README.supinfo-
skarven:current release=supinfo host=skarven.itea.ntnu.no use-rel-suffix
backup delete old base=/usr prefix=/usr hostbase=/supmirror
UK
* ftp.domino.org
Instructions: See ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/sup/README.sup
USA
* sup.netbsd.org
Instructions: See ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/sup/README.sup
* ftp.cs.umn.edu
Instructions: hostbase=/ftp/ftp/packages/NetBSD, collections are the same
as on sup.NetBSD.ORG
AFS mirrors
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USA
* ftp.iastate.edu
AFS path: /afs/iastate.edu/public/ftp/pub/netbsd
NetBSD 1.3 Release Contents:
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The NetBSD 1.3 release is organized in the following way:
.../NetBSD-1.3/
BUGS Known bugs list (incomplete
and out of date).
CHANGES Changes since NetBSD's last
release (and before).
LAST_MINUTE Last minute changes.
MIRRORS A list of sites that mirror
the NetBSD 1.3 distribution.
README.files README describing the
distribution's contents.
TODO NetBSD's todo list (incomplete
and out of date).
patches/ Post-release source code
patches.
source/ Source distribution sets; see
below.
In addition to the files and directories listed above, there is one
directory per architecture, for each of the architectures for which
NetBSD 1.3 has a binary distribution. There are also
'README.export-control' files sprinkled liberally throughout the
distribution tree, which point out that there are some portions of the
distribution (i.e. the `domestic' portion) that may be subject to
export regulations of the United States. It is your responsibility
to determine whether or not it is legal for you to export these portions
and to act accordingly.
The source distribution sets can be found in subdirectories of the
"source" subdirectory of the distribution tree. They contain the
complete sources to the system. The source distribution sets
are as follows:
secrsrc.tgz:
This set contains the "domestic" sources. These
sources may be subject to United States export
regulations.
[ 412K gzipped, 1.8M uncompressed ]
gnusrc.tgz:
This set contains the "gnu" sources, including
the source for the compiler, assembler, groff,
and the other GNU utilities in the binary distribution
sets.
[ 15.6M gzipped, 66.4M uncompressed ]
syssrc.tgz:
This set contains the sources to the NetBSD 1.3
kernel, config(8), and dbsym(8).
[ 10.7M gzipped, 50.0M uncompressed ]
sharesrc.tgz:
This set contains the "share" sources, which include
the sources for the man pages not associated with
any particular program, the sources for the
typesettable document set, the dictionaries, and more.
[ 2.9M gzipped, 11.1M uncompressed ]
src.tgz:
This set contains all of the NetBSD 1.3 sources which
are not mentioned above.
[ 13.9M gzipped, 60.7M uncompressed ]
It is worth noting that unless all of the source distribution sets
are installed (except the domestic set), you can't rebuild and install
the system from scratch, straight out of the box. However, all that is
required to rebuild the system in that case is a trivial modification
to one Makefile.
Most of the above source sets are located in the source/sets
subdirectory of the distribution tree. The secrsrc.tgz set is
contained in the source/security subdirectory. This set, which is
available only to users in the United States and Canada, contains the
sources normally found in /usr/src/domestic -- primarily kerberos and
other cryptographic security related software. (Remember, because of
United States law, it may not be legal to distribute this set to
locations outside of the United States and Canada.)
The source sets are distributed as compressed tar files. They may be
unpacked into /usr/src with the command:
cat set_name.tgz | gunzip | (cd /; tar xpf - )
The sets/Split/ and security/Split/ subdirectories contain split
versions of the source sets for those users who need to load the
source sets from floppy or otherwise need a split distribution. The
split sets are are named "set_name.xx" where "set_name" is the
distribution set name, and "xx" is the sequence number of the file,
starting with "aa" for the first file in the distribution set, then
"ab" for the next, and so on. All of these files except the last one
of each set should be exactly 240,640 bytes long. (The last file is
just long enough to contain the remainder of the data for that
distribution set.)
The split distributions may be reassembled and extracted with "cat" as
follows:
cat set_name.?? | gunzip | (cd /; tar xpf - )
In each of the source distribution set directories, there is a file
named "CKSUMS" which contains the checksums of the files in that
directory, as generated by the cksum(1) utility. You can use cksum to
check the integrity of the archives, if you suspect that one of the
files is corrupt and have access to a cksum binary. Checksums based on
other algorithms may also be present -- see the release(7) man page
for details.
The alpha-specific portion of the NetBSD 1.3 release is found in the
"alpha" subdirectory of the distribution. That subdirectory is laid
out as follows:
.../NetBSD-1.3/alpha/
INSTALL Installation notes; this file.
binary/
sets/ alpha binary distribution sets;
see below.
security/ alpha security distribution;
see below.
kernel/ alpha kernels; see below.
toolchain/ alpha toolchain; see below.
installation/
floppy/ alpha boot and installation
floppies; see below.
source/
toolchain/ Toolchain source code; see below.
Bootable installation/upgrade floppies:
There is a bootable floppy disk image available which contains
the software necessary to prepare your hard drive for NetBSD
and install the NetBSD distribution, or to upgrading an already
installed system from a previous version of NetBSD.
Because the kernel on the installation disks is not suitable
for use beyond initial installation and configuration, a
"generic" kernel has been placed in a distribution set named
"kern". This kernel is intended to run your system while you
build a custom kernel. It is strongly encouraged that you
build a custom kernel for your installation rather than use
the prebuilt generic kernel on a long term basis.
Please note that the INSTALL kernel (which is booted from
the install floppy or the network) is not usable for anything
other than installing; it will always use as root an internal
ramdisk with the install tools. Also, currently the INSTALL
image only supports systems that are likely to have a floppy
drive (the NoName, EB64+, EB164, AS500/600; the DECStation
3000 systems and the 8200/8400 are not supported by this
floppy). If booting the INSTALL kernel from the network
proves popular, we will generate another network version
of the INSTALL kernel that supports more systems.
The alpha toolchain:
The toolchain (compiler, assembler, linker, etc.) for the
alpha port is not yet integrated into the main NetBSD source
tree, so the binaries for it are still distributed separately.
A tar file with the toolchain can be found under
binaries/toolchain, and the source can be found under
source/toolchain.
The toolchain installs under usr/local; to install it,
just cd to the root directory and type
tar -x -z --unlink -f /path/to/toolchain.tar.gz
Note that the "official" toolchain we use with 1.3 is actually
the snapshot build of it from 97.11.05; this is based on the
sources tagged WORKING-alpha in the NetBSD source tree.
The NetBSD/alpha binary distribution sets contain the binaries which
comprise the NetBSD 1.3 release for the alpha. There are eight binary
distribution sets and the "security" distribution set. The binary
distribution sets can be found in the "alpha/binary/sets" subdirectory
of the NetBSD 1.3 distribution tree, and are as follows:
base The NetBSD/alpha 1.3 base binary distribution. You
MUST install this distribution set. It contains the
base NetBSD utilities that are necessary for the
system to run and be minimally functional. It
includes shared library support, and excludes
everything described below.
[ 13M gzipped, 41M uncompressed ]
comp Things needed for compiling programs, other than the
actual compiler programs themselves. (These are in
the toolchain snapshot file described above.) This
set includes the system include files (/usr/include)
and the various system libraries (except the shared
libraries, which are included as part of the base
set). This set also includes the manual pages for
all of the utilities it contains, as well as the system
call and library manual pages.
[ 6M gzipped, 31M uncompressed ]
etc This distribution set contains the system
configuration files that reside in /etc and in several
other places. This set MUST be installed if you are
installing the system from scratch, but should NOT be
used if you are upgrading. (If you are upgrading,
it's recommended that you get a copy of this set and
CAREFULLY upgrade your configuration files by hand.)
[ 50K gzipped, 320K uncompressed ]
games This set includes the games and their manual pages.
[ 3M gzipped, 8M uncompressed ]
kern This set contains a NetBSD/alpha 1.3 GENERIC kernel,
named "/netbsd". You MUST install this distribution
set.
[ 1M gzipped, 2M uncompressed ]
man This set includes all of the manual pages for the
binaries and other software contained in the base set.
Note that it does not include any of the manual pages
that are included in the other sets.
[ 2.5M gzipped, 10M uncompressed ]
misc This set includes the system dictionaries (which are
rather large), the typesettable document set, and
man pages for other architectures which happen to be
installed from the source tree by default.
[ 2M gzipped, 9M uncompressed ]
text This set includes NetBSD's text processing tools,
including groff, all related programs, and their
manual pages.
[ 1M gzipped, 4M uncompressed ]
The alpha security distribution set is named "secr" and can be
found in the "alpha/binary/security" subdirectory of the NetBSD
1.3 distribution tree. It contains security related binaries
which depend on cryptographic source code. You do not need this
distribution set to use encrypted passwords in your password file;
the "base" distribution includes a crypt library which can perform
only the one-way encryption function. The security distribution
includes a version of the Kerberos IV network security system, and
a Kerberized version of the "telnet" program. The "secr" distribution
set can be found only on those sites which carry the complete NetBSD
distribution and which can legally obtain it. (Remember, because
of United States law, it may not be legal to distribute this set
to locations outside of the United States and Canada.)
[ 1M gzipped, 3M uncompressed ]
The instructions given for extracting the source sets work equally
well for the binary sets, but it is worth noting that if you use that
method, the files are extracted "below" the current directory. That
is, if you want to extract the binaries "into" your system, i.e.
replace the system binaries with them, you have to run the "tar xfp"
from /. Also note that if you upgrade or install this way, those
programs that you are using at the time will NOT be replaced unless
you run "tar" with the "--unlink" option. If you follow the normal
installation or upgrade procedures, this will be taken care of for
you.
NetBSD System Requirements and Supported Devices:
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NetBSD/alpha 1.3 runs on the following DEC Alpha platforms:
DEC 3000/500-family systems
DEC 3000/300-family systems
Digital AlphaStation 200, 250, 255, and 400 systems
Digital AlphaStation 500 and 600 systems
Digital AXPpci systems (including UDB and Multia)
EB64+-family systems (including Digital EB64+ and third-party
AlphaPC 64 systems)
EB164-family systems (including Digital EB164 and third-party
AlphaPC 164 systems)
Digital AlphaServer 8200 and 8400 systems
If your system is not listed here, it is not supported in this release,
but may be supported in more current versions of NetBSD. Check the
alpha port web pages at for the most recent
information on this, or ask on the alpha mailing list,
.
NetBSD/alpha requires the Digital Unix PALcode, which basically means
that you need to have the SRM console installed on your machine. This
console can be distinguished from the ARC console (which is used to
boot Windows NT) by the fact that it has a command line interface,
rather than a menu-driven interface.
A basic system will fit on a 200 MB disk (including swap) without too
much difficulty, but you will probably want at least 500 MB of disk
to have any level of comfort. You will also need at least 32 MB of
RAM, and you will probably want more than that if you're running X.
We support add-in devices on the PCI, ISA, EISA and TurboChannel buses.
Because NetBSD has an extremely machine-independent device driver
system, many device drivers are the same as used in other ports that
use the same bus. For example, the de network card driver is shared
by the i386 and Alpha ports. Some drivers on inspection appear as if
they will work on the alpha but have not been tested because that
hardware was not available to NetBSD testers; these are marked as
`UNTESTED' below. If you have one of these devices, and it does work,
please get in touch with and let
us know that it works. If it doesn't work, do the same thing and we
can probably fix it pretty easily.
Supported devices by bus type are:
PCI Bus
Graphics Adapters
VGA-compatible video (pcivga)
ZLXp-E1 video (DECchip 21030-based video, tga, NOTE: ZLXp-E2
and ZLXp-E3 boards are not supported in NetBSD 1.3.))
Network Cards
DECchip 21x40-family 10 and 100 Mbps Ethernet (de)
DEC DEFPA FDDI (fpa)
PCI LANCE Ethernet (le, UNTESTED)
Efficient Networks ENI-155p ATM (en, UNTESTED)
3Com 3c59x and 3c90x (except 3c906) 10 and 100 Mbps Ethernet (ep)
Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B PCI Ethernet (fxp, UNTESTED)
SCSI Controllers
Adaptec 294x, 394x, and aic78x0 SCSI (ahc)
BusLogic 9xx SCSI (bha, Works on Alpha PC164)
Qlogic ISP 10x0-family SCSI (isp)
NCR/Symbios 53c8xx-family SCSI (ncr, NCR825 Doesn't always work)
Miscellaneous Devices
Cyclades Cyclom-Y serial boards (cy, UNTESTED)
PCI-PCI bridges (ppb, tested with the DECchip 21050, but should
work with all bridges and system firmware revisions that
comply with the PCI-PCI bridge specification)
ISA Bus
Network Cards
3Com 3c509 Ethernet (ep)
Miscellaneous Devices
PC-style parallel ports (lpt)
NS16450 and NS16550 UARTs (com)
ISA multi-port 16x50 boards (such as ast, boca--only boca has
been tested)
EISA Bus
Network Cards
DEC DEFEA FDDI (fea)
3Com 3c5xx series (ed, UNTESTED)
SCSI Controllers
Adaptec 274x and aic7770 SCSI (ahc, UNTESTED)
BusLogic 7xx SCSI (bha, UNTESTED)
Turbochannel Bus
Graphics Adapters
CFB video (PMAG-BA, cfb)
SFB video (PMAGB-BA, sfb)
(Note that although these boards are supported by NetBSD/alpha,
since there is no keyboard or mouse support available for the
TurboChannel systems, they aren't very useful.)
Network Cards
DEC LANCE Ethernet (PMAD-AA, le, UNTESTED)
DEC DEFTA FDDI (PMAF-F, fta)
Note that PC-style floppy disk drives are not supported in 1.3
(except to boot from), but are supported to some degree in
NetBSD-current.
Note that some devices, especially ISA-based devices, have to have
certain settings set properly for the install and GENERIC kernels to
detect them. (Once installed, you can always rebuild your own kernel
to detect them anywhere you wish, of course.) Here is a list of such
devices and the necessary settings:
Device Name Port IRQ DRQ Misc
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Serial ports com0 0x3f8 4 [8250/16450/16550/clones]
com1 0x2f8 3 [8250/16450/16550/clones]
com2 0x3e8 5 [8250/16450/16550/clones]
Parallel ports lpt0 0x378 7 [interrupt-driven or polling]
lpt1 0x278 [polling only]
lpt2 0x3bc [polling only]
AHA-174x SCSI host adapters (in enhanced mode)
ahb0 any any any
AHA-2X4X or AIC-7XXX-based SCSI host adapters
ahc0 any any any
Bus Logic BT445, BT74x, or BT9xx SCSI host adapters
bha0 0x330 any any
bha1 0x334 any any
MFM/ESDI/IDE/RLL hard disk controllers
wdc0 0x1f0 14 [supports two devices]
wdc1 0x170 15 [supports two devices]
ATA disks wd0, wd1, ...
SCSI disks sd0, sd1, ...
SCSI tapes st0, st1, ...
SCSI and ATAPI CD-ROMs cd0, cd1, ...
For each SCSI and IDE controller found, the SCSI or ATA(PI) devices
present on the bus are probed in increasing id order for SCSI and
master/slave order for ATA(PI). So the first SCSI drive found will
be called sd0, the second sd1, and so on ...
3COM 3x59X or 3COM 3x90X PCI Ethernet boards
ep0 any any [you must assign an interrupt in your
PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
Intel EtherExpress 100 Fast Ethernet adapters
fxp0 any any [you must assign an interrupt in your
PCI BIOS, or let it do so for you]
Getting the NetBSD System on to Useful Media:
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Installation is supported from several media types, including:
FTP
Remote NFS partition
CD-ROM
No matter which installation medium you choose, you'll need to have
either a 1.44 MB floppy disk (if your Alpha has a floppy drive to
boot from) or you'll have to set up a server with BOOTP, TFTP and
NFS to boot from as described later in this document.
If you are using a UN*X-like system to write the floppy images to
disks, you should use the "dd" command to copy the file system image
(.fs file) directly to the raw floppy disk. It is suggested that you
read the dd(1) manual page or ask your system administrator to
determine the correct set of arguments to use; it will be slightly
different from system to system, and a comprehensive list of the
possibilities is beyond the scope of this document.
If you are using DOS to write the floppy image to disk, you should
use the "rawrite" utility, provided in the "i386/utilities" directory
of the NetBSD distribution. It will write the file system image (.fs
file) to disks.
Note that, when installing or upgrading, the floppy can be
write-protected if you wish. These systems mount ramdisks as their
root file systems once booted, and will not need to write to the
floppy itself at any time -- indeed, once booted, the floppy may be
removed from the disk drive.
Obviously, the steps necessary to prepare the distribution sets
for installation depend on which installation medium you choose.
The steps for the various media are outlined below.
To install NetBSD using NFS to get the installation sets, you must
do the following:
Place the NetBSD distribution sets you wish to install into a
directory on an NFS server, and make that directory mountable
by the machine on which you are installing or upgrading NetBSD.
This will probably require modifying the /etc/exports file on
of the NFS server and resetting its mount daemon (mountd).
(Both of these actions will probably require superuser
privileges on the server.)
You need to know the the numeric IP address of the NFS server,
and, if the server is not on a network directly connected to
the machine on which you're installing or upgrading NetBSD,
you need to know the numeric IP address of the router closest
to the NetBSD machine. Finally, you need to know the numeric
IP address of the NetBSD machine itself. The install
program will ask you to provide this information to be able
to access the sets.
Once the NFS server is set up properly and you have the
information mentioned above, you can start the actual
installation process.
To install NetBSD by using FTP to get the installation sets, you
must do the following:
The preparations for this installation method are easy;
all you make sure that there's some FTP site from which
you can retrieve the NetBSD distribution when you're about
to install. You need to know the numeric IP address of that
site, and, if it's not on a network directly connected to
the machine on which you're installing or upgrading NetBSD,
you need to know the numeric IP address of the router
closest to the NetBSD machine. Finally, you need to know
the numeric IP address of the NetBSD machine itself. The
install program will ask you to provide this information
to be able to access the sets via ftp.
Once you have this information, you can proceed to the actual
installation.
To install NetBSD by using a CD-ROM to get the installation sets,
you must do the following:
Have a CD-ROM with the installation sets on it, and a CD-ROM
drive on your machine.
If you are upgrading NetBSD, you also have the option of installing
NetBSD by putting the new distribution sets somewhere in your existing
file system, and using them from there. To do that, you must do the
following:
Place the distribution sets you wish to upgrade somewhere in
your current file system tree. Please note that the /dev on
the floppy used for upgrades only knows about wd0, wd1, sd0,
sd1 and sd2. If you have more than two IDE drives or more than
three SCSI drives, you should take care not to place the sets
on the high numbered drives.
At a bare minimum, you must upgrade the "base" and "kern"
binary distribution, and so must put the "base" and
"kern" sets somewhere in your file system. If you wish,
you can do the other sets, as well, but you should NOT upgrade
the "etc" distribution; the "etc" distribution contains system
configuration files that you should review and update by hand.
Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next step in
the upgrade process, actually upgrading your system.
Preparing your System for NetBSD Installation:
--------- ---- ------ --- ------ ------------
There's no particular preparation necessary before installing NetBSD
on your Alpha, except to make sure that if you have any data on
your disks that you want to keep, you should back it up before
starting. Note that NetBSD/alpha does not support having more than
one operating system on a single disk, although it's fine to have
multiple operating systems on your machine if you have a separate
disk for NetBSD.
Installing the NetBSD System:
---------- --- ------ ------
0. Introduction
This is the first release of NetBSD/alpha with regular packaging
and install tools, and the installation program is still rather
primitive. It also hasn't been tested very well, so there may
be bugs in both it and this document. However, if you have
problems, don't despair; most problems you might encounter are
very easy to fix. We strongly suggest you join the port-alpha
list (see the section on mailing lists on www.netbsd.org) and
ask questions there if you run into any problems. Also report
problem you've gotten around there or by using send-pr so that
they can be fixed for the next release.
1. General
The following is a walk-through of the steps you will take
while getting NetBSD installed on your hard disk. It's divided
into three basic components: booting NetBSD (section 2 below),
preparing the disk (section 3 below), and loading the operating
system files onto the disk (section 4 below).
2. Booting NetBSD
You have two choices of how to boot your machine. If you have a
floppy drive, you may boot from that. This is probably the simplest
way of getting started. If you don't have a floppy drive, you will
need to set yourself up for a boot from a file server on the
network, which is a little more complex.
2.1 Making and Booting a Floppy
The 3.5", 1.44 MB boot floppy image is found under the
NetBSD/alpha 1.3 distribution directory in the file
alpha/installation/floppy/floppy-144. You need to take this disk
image and put it on a floppy disk.
If you have a Unix system handy, you can do this with a command
like the following:
dd if=floppy-144 of=/dev/rfd0a
If the Unix system you are using is not a NetBSD system, you will
probably need to replace `/dev/rfd0a' with the name of the floppy
device on your particular system.
If you have an MS-DOS or Windows system available, you can use
the `rawrite.exe' utility to transfer the image to a floppy
disk. (Note that rawrite.exe doesn't work under many, if not
all, Windows NT systems.) This utility is provided with the
NetBSD/i386 install tools, under i386/installation/misc; a
documentation file, `rawrite.doc' is available there as well.
Once the floppy has been made, you simply need to put it in the
drive and type
boot dva0
Now you may skip to section 3.
2.2 Booting over the Network
Booting NetBSD/alpha 1.3 over a network requires a BOOTP server,
a TFTP server and an NFS server. (These are usually all run on
the same machine.) There are three basic stages to the boot:
1.The Alpha console software sends a BOOTP request to get its own
address, the address of the TFTP server and the file to
download. It downloads this file, which is the second stage
bootstrap, via TFTP and then executes it.
2.The second stage bootstrap uses further information in the BOOTP
packet that the console received to find the NFS server and path
and retreive the kernel (the file /netbsd). After loading the
kernel into memory, it executes it.
3.The kernel probes and configures the devices, and then sends
out another BOOTP request so it can find out its address, the NFS
server, and path. (The kernel probably should get this information
from the console, but it currently doesn't.) It then mounts its
root via NFS and continues.
2.2.1 Setting Up the Server
You will need to set up your server to serve BOOTP, TFTP and NFS.
The NFS setup is quite simple. If you want to run a full system
from the network, untar the NetBSD snapshot or distribution
into a directory on your server and NFS export that directory
to the client. (Make sure you put a kernel there as well, and
create the device nodes in /dev with `sh ./MAKEDEV all'. In
fact, see the full instructions available off the alpha port
page at www.netbsd.org.)
You'll want to map root to `root' (rather than the default
`nobody') when you export your root filesystem. A typical
/etc/exports line on a NetBSD system would be:
/usr/export/alpha -maproot=0 myclient.mydom.com
If you just want to get the install kernel loaded so that you
can download sets to the local hard drive of that machine, you
need nothing other than the install kernel in the NFS root
directory on your server.
For the TFTP setup, you need to copy the second stage bootstrap,
netboot, into an appropriately named file (I use boot.netbsd.alpha)
in the directory used by your TFTP server. If you extracted a full
snapshot, you can get the netboot program from /usr/mdec/netboot;
if not, you can get this from the installation/netboot directory
where you found the alpha distribution.
For the BOOTP server you need to specify the:
hardware type (Ethernet)
hardware address (Ethernet MAC address)
IP address of the client
subnet mask of the client
address of of the TFTP/NFS server
name of the second stage bootstrap loaded via TFTP
path to the root for the client (mounted via NFS)
Here's an example for a Unix system running bootpd:
myhost.mydom.com:\
:ht=ethernet:ha=0000c0391ae4:\
:ip=192.168.1.2:sm=255.255.255.0:\
:sa=192.168.1.1:bf=boot.netbsd.alpha:rp=/usr/export/alpha:
And here's an example for a Unix system running dhcpd:
host axp {
hardware ethernet 0:0:c0:39:1a:e4;
fixed-address 192.168.1.2;
option host-name "myhost.mydom.com";
filename "boot.netbsd.alpha";
option root-path "/usr/export/alpha";
option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.1;
option broadcast-address 255.255.255.0;
option domain-name "my.domain";
}
2.2.2 The Alpha Console
The only Ethernet device the console on most Alpha systems
knows how to boot from is the onboard Ethernet interface or a
DEC Tulip (21040, 21041, 21140) based PCI Ethernet card. Some
older SMC 100 Mbps card that use this chip have been known to
work as well. Many older systems will not be able to use the
newer 2.0 stepping of the 21140, however. If your system appears
not to be receiving packets, this may be the problem. (You may
or may not be able to update your firmware to fix this; see
the alpha port pages on www.netbsd.org for more information on
this.)
Once you're set up, you should be able to boot with:
boot -proto bootp ewa0
(The command may be different on some very old machines.)
3. Preparing the Disk
If you're going to be running a diskless machine, the steps so
far have prepared you to run, and you can skip to section 5
("Configuration") below.
If you are going to run NetBSD from a local hard drive, however,
this hard drive needs to be prepared. This preparation consists
of putting a label on the disk, which includes information on
the sizes and placement of the partition into which the disk
is divided, putting the boot blocks on the disk, and initialising
the filesystems on the partitions. This work is done by the
`install' script from the boot floppy (or boot kernel, if you
booted it via NFS with the INSTALL kernel).
3.1 Running Install
When you first boot the INSTALL kernel you will be given the
options of `install' or `shell'. Choose `install' and the
install script will start.
If, at any time, you have made a mistake in the install script
and want to abort, press ^C. This will take you to a shell
prompt. You can then restart the install script by typing
`/install', or halt the machine by typing `halt'.
3.1 Answering the Install Questions
These will for the most part be fairly obvious. You may install
on either a SCSI or an IDE disk, and you will be prompted for
the disk to install on. The disks in your system will be numbered
starting at xd0 (where x is an `s' for SCSI disks, `w' for IDE
disks) based on the SCSI ID or IDE drive order; if you have
more than one disk, watch the boot messages carefully to see
which ones are probed as which numbers.
Once you've selected a disk to install on, you'll be prompted
for the geometry. This is also displayed in the boot messages,
and you'll be given a chance to review the boot messages again
to get the exact figures for the number of cylinders, heads
and sectors.
After this you must specify the size of your partitions.
Generally you'll be giving the sizes in cylinders; the install
program will tell you how many bytes there are in each cylinder.
The swap partition is the second thing you specify, after the
root partition. Regardless of the size of your disk, you'll
want to specify a swap partition that's at least as large as
the amount of RAM you have, and probably not less than 64 MB
in any case.
If you have a small disk (under 500 MB), it's probably best to
devote all of the disk (excepting 64 MB or more for the swap)
to the root partition.
If you have more space, we recommend devoting at least 32 MB,
and preferably 48 MB, to the root partition. /usr will need
150 MB or so if you're not installing X, 200 MB or so if you
are.
Once you've specified this information, the install script will
write the disklabel, install boot blocks to make the disk
bootable, initialise the filesystems, and mount them all under
/mnt. You're now ready to go on to the next step.
4. Installing NetBSD
To install NetBSD you'll have to get access to the tar files
that contain the operating system, and extract them to your
disk. You can get access to the tar files through either a
network or from a CD-ROM.
4.1 Preparing to Install from a CD-ROM
All you need to do is mount the CD-ROM, which will generally
be device cd0. (The initial boot messages will tell you what
the CD-ROM drive as probed as.) This would be done with:
mount -r -t cd9660 /dev/cd0a /mnt2
4.2 Preparing to Install from the Network
The first thing you need to do is configure the loopback network
interface, which is done with the command
ifconfig lo0 127.0.0.1
Then you will have to configure your Ethernet card. The command
ifconfig -l
will give you a list of the network interfaces on your system.
It will show you your ethernet cards first, followed by lo0
(the loopback interface that we configured above), ppp0 (the
PPP interface) and sl0 (the SLIP interface).
To configure your ethernet card, type
ifconfig inet [netmask ] [media ]
Where is the network card (interface), is the IP
address, the optional parameter is the network mask,
and the optional parameter is one of:
10base2 BNC connector, 10 Mbps
AUI AUI connector, 10 Mbps
10baseT Twisted pair connector, 10 Mbps
100baseTX Twisted pair connector, 100 Mbps
100baseFX Fibre-optic connector, 100 Mbps
100baseT4 T4 twisted pair interface, 100 Mbps
If the host you are getting the data files from is not on the
local network, you will also have to configure a gateway into
your system. Do this with
route add default
If you will need name services you can set up a /etc/resolv.conf
file for those with a `nameserver ' line in it, e.g.:
echo "nameserver 198.41.0.4" >>/etc/resolv.conf
Once networking has been configured, you may mount the directory
with the install files via NFS, or download them via FTP.
To mount them via nfs, type
mount -t nfs /mnt2
If this volume has been exported read-only, you may need the
`-r' option to mount.
To download the install sets with ftp, create a directory in
which to put them and then use the ftp client to download them.
A typical session might be:
mkdir /mnt/var/tmp
cd /mnt/var/tmp
ftp ftp.netbsd.org
[all the following commmands are given to the ftp program
after logging in]
prompt
cd /pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.3/alpha/binary/sets
mget *
cd /pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.3/alpha/binary/kernel
get netbsd-GENERIC.gz
cd /pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.3/alpha/binary/toolchain
get netbsd-GENERIC.gz
bye
Feel free, of course, to leave off the sets that you don't need
if you don't plan to install everything.
You are now ready to proceed to step 4.3.
4.3 Extracting the Operating System Files
This is quite simple. Change to the root directory of your hard
drive (which is /mnt if you've used the standard install script
to this point) by typing
cd /mnt
Then extract the kernel with:
zcat /mnt/var/tmp/netbsd-GENERIC.gz >/mnt/netbsd
For this and the following commands, replace `/mnt/var/tmp/'
with the path to your NFS volume or CD-ROM if that's how you
chose to access your install files instead.
The sets are extracted with
for file in base comp etc games man misc text; do
tar --unlink -t -z -f /mnt/var/tmp/$file;
done
and the toolchain with
tar --unlink -t -z -f /mnt/var/tmp/toolchain.tar.gz
You will now be ready to reboot from your hard disk. Type `sync'
twice to make sure all the data is written out to disk and then
type `halt' to halt your system and go back to the monitor. At
this point you should be able to reboot your system with
boot dka0
(or `boot dka100' if your disk drive is on ID 1, etc.--you can
usually use `show device' to see a full list of bootable devices
in your system). Your system will come up in single-user mode,
ready for you to configure it.
5. Configuring NetBSD
Configuring your NetBSD system requires editing the /etc/rc.conf
file. Most of this file is fairly self-explanatory, but you
can `man rc.conf' for further explanations. Remember to set
`rc_configured' to YES so you will boot multi-user, set `hostname'
and possibly `defaultroute', and add an ifconfig_int for your
interface , along the lines of
ifconfig_de0="inet myname.my.dom 123.45.67.89 netmask 255.255.255.0"
You will also want either to run named or add an /etc/resolv.conf
file (`man resolv.conf' for information on this), use `vipw' to add
accounts to your system, edit /etc/aliases to forward root mail to
the right place (run `newaliases' afterwards) and edit /etc/rc.local
to run any local daemons you use.
Upgrading a previously-installed NetBSD System:
--------- - ---------- --------- ------ ------
The upgrade to NetBSD 1.3 is a binary upgrade; it would be prohibitive
to make users upgrade by compiling and installing the 1.3 sources, and
it would be very difficult to even compile a set of instructions that
allowed them to do so. Because of the many changes to the system, it
is difficult and impractical to upgrade by recompiling from the sources
and installing.
Since upgrading involves replacing the boot blocks on your NetBSD
partition, the kernel, and most of the system binaries, it has the
potential to cause data loss. You are strongly advised to BACK UP ANY
IMPORTANT DATA ON YOUR DISK, whether on the NetBSD partition or on
another operating system's partition, before beginning the upgrade
process.
The upgrade is done entirely `by hand.' You will need first to boot
the new boot floppy or INSTALL kernel and use /usr/mdec/install to
install new boot blocks. Then you may extract a new kernel and the
distribution sets as described in section 5 of the installation
instructions.
After this point your machine is a complete NetBSD 1.3 system.
However, that doesn't mean that you're finished with the upgrade
process. You will probably want to update the set of device nodes
you have in /dev. If you've changed the contents of /dev by hand,
you will need to be careful about this, but if not, you can just
cd into /dev, and run the command "sh ./MAKEDEV all".
You must also deal with certain changes in the formats of some of
the configuration files. The most notable change is that we now
have an /etc/rc.conf file which describes most configuration options,
but also the "options" given to many of the file systems in /etc/fstab
or by hand have changed, and some of the file systems have changed
names. To find out what the new options are, it's suggested that
you read the manual page for the file systems' mount commands, for
example mount_nfs(8) for NFS.
Finally, you will want to delete old binaries that were part of
the version of NetBSD that you upgraded from and have since been
removed from the NetBSD distribution. Especially important, if you
use NFS, is removing /sbin/nfsd and /sbin/nfsiod; the new versions
of these programs are in /usr/sbin.
Compatibility Issues With Previous NetBSD Releases:
------------- ------ ---- -------- ------ --------
Users upgrading from previous versions of NetBSD may wish to bear the
following problems and compatibility issues in mind when upgrading to
NetBSD 1.3:
* Swap configuration
Description:
All swap partitions are now configured by the swapctl(8)
program. The kernel no longer configures a "default" swap
partition. Because of this, all swap partitions (even the old
"default") must be listed in /etc/fstab.
Many users of previous releases relied on the kernel
configuring a "default" swap partition and did not list any
swap space in /etc/fstab at all -- such users will now have no
swap space configured unless they list swap partitions in
/etc/fstab!
Common symptoms of of this problem include machine crashes
during builds, and similar memory intensive activities.
Fix:
The most common position for a swap partition is the `b'
partition of the drive the root file system is on. For
diskless systems, check the new swapctl(8) manual for more
detail on how this is done. Example fstab entries:
/dev/sd0b none swap sw,priority=0
/dev/sd1b none swap sw,priority=5
* NFS daemons and other programs in /sbin moved
Description:
The NFS daemons (nfsd, nfsiod, mountd) have been moved from
the /sbin to the /usr/sbin directory. When new binaries are
loaded over old ones during upgrade, most programs get
overlaid and replaced, but unless these binaries are
explicitly removed they will not disappear. The installation
subsystems on some NetBSD architectures will not properly
remove these binaries.
Due to changes in the NFS subsystem, the old NFS daemon
binaries will not work correctly, and will cause serious
problems. Unfortunately, the default startup script (/etc/rc)
will run the old binaries in /sbin if they are present instead
of the new ones in /usr/sbin.
Some other programs (dumpfs, dumplfs and quotacheck) have also
been moved from /sbin to /usr/sbin, and old versions may be
left behind by accident. They, too, may cause difficulties.
Fix:
Remove the old daemon binaries (/sbin/nfsiod, /sbin/nfsd,
/sbin/mountd, etc.) after your upgrade has finished. You may
wish to do an "ls -lt /sbin | more" to help determine which
binaries were not replaced/removed during your upgrade.
* AMANDA, The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver,
from http://www.amanda.org
Description:
Due to a change in the output of dump(8) to ensure
consistency in the messages, AMANDA's dump output
parser breaks.
Error messages such as the following may be an
indication that this problem is present:
FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
hostname wd0e lev 1 FAILED [no backup size line]
Versions affected:
2.3.0.4, and most likely earlier versions
Workaround/Fix:
One of:
* Apply the patch found at:
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/patches/amanda-pre-2.4.patch
* Upgrade to AMANDA 2.4.0 or newer. The side effect of this is
that the network protocol is incompatible with earlier
versions.
Using online NetBSD documentation
----- ------ ------ -------------
Documentation is available if you first install the manual
distribution set. Traditionally, the "man pages" (documentation)
are denoted by 'name(section)'. Some examples of this are
intro(1),
man(1),
apropros(1),
passwd(1), and
passwd(5).
The section numbers group the topics into several categories, but three
are of primary interest: user commands are in section 1, file formats
are in section 5, and administrative information is in section 8.
The 'man' command is used to view the documentation on a topic, and is
started by entering 'man [section] topic'. The brackets [] around the
section should not be entered, but rather indicate that the section is
optional. If you don't ask for a particular section, the topic with the
least-numbered section name will be displayed. For instance, after
logging in, enter
man passwd
to read the documentation for passwd(1). To view the documentation for
passwd(5), enter
man 5 passwd
instead.
If you are unsure of what man page you are looking for, enter
apropos subject-word
where "subject-word" is your topic of interest; a list of possibly
related man pages will be displayed.
Administrivia:
-------------
If you've got something to say, do so! We'd like your input.
There are various mailing lists available via the mailing list
server at . To get help on using the mailing
list server, send mail to that address with an empty body, and it will
reply with instructions.
There are various mailing lists set up to deal with comments and
questions about this release. Please send comments to:
netbsd-comments@NetBSD.ORG
To report bugs, use the 'send-pr' command shipped with NetBSD,
and fill in as much information about the problem as you can. Good
bug reports include lots of details. Additionally, bug reports can
be sent by mail to:
netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.ORG
Use of 'send-pr' is encouraged, however, because bugs reported with it
are entered into the NetBSD bugs database, and thus can't slip through
the cracks.
There are also port-specific mailing lists, to discuss aspects of
each port of NetBSD. Use majordomo to find their addresses. If
you're interested in doing a serious amount of work on a specific
port, you probably should contact the "owner" of that port (listed
below).
If you'd like to help with this effort, and have an idea as to how
you could be useful, send mail and/or subscribe to:
netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG
As a favor, please avoid mailing huge documents or files to these
mailing lists. Instead, put the material you would have sent up
for FTP somewhere, then mail the appropriate list about it, or, if
you'd rather not do that, mail the list saying you'll send the data
to those who want it.
Thanks go to:
------ -- --
Members and former members of UCB's Computer Systems Research Group,
including (but not limited to):
Keith Bostic
Ralph Campbell
Mike Karels
Marshall Kirk McKusick
for their ongoing work on BSD systems, support, and encouragement.
Also, our thanks go to:
Mike Hibler
Rick Macklem
Jan-Simon Pendry
Chris Torek
for answering lots of questions, fixing bugs, and doing the various work
they've done.
UC Berkeley's Experimental Computing Facility provided a home for
sun-lamp in the past, people to look after it, and a sense of humor.
Rob Robertson, too, has added his unique sense of humor to things, and
for a long time provided the primary FTP site for NetBSD.
Best Internet Communications for hosting the NetBSD FTP and SUP server.
Cygnus Support for hosting the NetBSD Mail server.
Without CVS, this project would be impossible to manage, so our hats
go off to Brian Berliner, Jeff Polk, and the various other people
who've had a hand in making CVS a useful tool.
Dave Burgess has been maintaining the
386BSD/NetBSD/FreeBSD FAQ for quite some time, and deserves to be
recognized for it.
The following people (in alphabetical order) have made donations or
loans of hardware and/or money, to support NetBSD development, and
deserve credit for it:
Bay Area Internet Solutions
Jason Brazile
David Brownlee
Simon Burge
Dave Burgess
Ralph Campbell
Canada Connect Corporation
Brian Carlstrom
James Chacon
Bill Coldwell
Charles Conn
Tom Coulter
Charles D. Cranor
Christopher G. Demetriou
Demon Internet, UK
Easynet, UK
Scott Ellis
Free Hardware Foundation
Greg Gingerich
Michael L. Hitch
Innovation Development Enterprises of America
Scott Kaplan
Chris Legrow
Neil J. McRae
Perry E. Metzger
MS Macro System GmbH, Germany
Numerical Aerospace Simulation Facility, NASA Ames Research Center
Herb Peyerl
Mike Price
Thor Lancelot Simon
Bill Sommerfeld
Paul Southworth
Jason R. Thorpe
Steve Wadlow
(If you're not on that list and should be, tell us! We probably were
not able to get in touch with you, to verify that you wanted to be
listed.)
Finally, we thank all of the people who've put sweat and tears into
developing NetBSD since its inception in January, 1993. (Obviously,
there are a lot more people who deserve thanks here. If you're one of
them, and would like to mentioned, tell us!)
We are:
-- ---
(in alphabetical order)
The NetBSD core group:
J.T. Conklin
Charles Hannum
Paul Kranenburg
Jason Thorpe
Christos Zoulas
The port-masters (and their ports):
Mark Brinicombe (arm32)
Jeremy Cooper (sun3x)
Chuck Cranor (mvme68k)
Charles Hannum (i386)
Chris Hopps (amiga)
Paul Kranenburg (sparc)
Anders Magnusson (vax)
Phil Nelson (pc532)
Masaru Oki (x68k)
Scott Reynolds (mac68k)
Gordon Ross (sun3, sun3x)
Jonathan Stone (pmax)
Jason Thorpe (hp300)
Frank van der Linden (i386)
Leo Weppelman (atari)
The NetBSD 1.3 Release Engineering team:
Ted Lemon
Perry Metzger
Jason Thorpe
Supporting cast:
Steve Allen
Lennart Augustsson
Christoph Badura
John Birrell
Manuel Bouyer
John Brezak
Allen Briggs
Aaron Brown
David Brownlee
Simon Burge
Dave Burgess
Dave Carrel
Bill Coldwell
Alistair Crooks
Rob Deker
Chris G. Demetriou
Matthias Drochner
Bernd Ernesti
Erik Fair
Hubert Feyrer
Brian R. Gaeke
Justin Gibbs
Adam Glass
Michael Graff
Brad Grantham
Matthew Green
Juergen Hannken-Illjes
Michael L. Hitch
Marc Horowitz
Matthew Jacob
Lonhyn T. Jasinskyj
Lawrence Kesteloot
Klaus Klein
John Kohl
Kevin Lahey
Ted Lemon
Mike Long
Paul Mackerras
SAITOH Masanobu
Neil J. McRae
Perry Metzger
Luke Mewburn
der Mouse
Herb Peyerl
Matthias Pfaller
Chris Provenzano
Waldi Ravens
Darren Reed
Kazuki Sakamoto
Curt Sampson
Wilfredo Sanchez
Karl Schilke (rAT)
Thor Lancelot Simon
Noriyuki Soda
Wolfgang Solfrank
Bill Sommerfeld
Ignatios Souvatzis
Bill Studenmund
Kevin Sullivan
Matt Thomas
Enami Tsugutomo
Todd Vierling
Paul Vixie
Colin Wood
Steve Woodford
Dedication:
----------
The Release Engineering team would like to dedicate the NetBSD 1.3
release to the memory of the late Koji Imada, who was killed in a
motorcycle accident in August, 1997 at the age of 28. A doctoral
student in Mathematical Science at Nagoya University, he was a user of
NetBSD and a contributor to the project since 1993. Well remembered by
his friends, he was also known as a connoisseur of gins, teas, and the
motorcycles he loved to ride. His death came as a shock, and he will
be greatly missed by all of us. May he rest in peace.
Legal Mumbo-jumbo:
----- ----- -----
The following notices are required to satisfy the license terms of
the software that we have mentioned in this document:
This product includes software developed by the University of
California, Berkeley and its contributors.
This product includes software developed by the Computer
Systems Engineering Group at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
This product includes software developed by the NetBSD
Foundation, Inc. and its contributors.
This product includes software developed by Adam Glass
and Charles Hannum.
This product includes software developed by Adam Glass.
This product includes software developed by Berkeley Software
Design, Inc.
This product includes software developed by Charles D. Cranor
and Washington University.
This product includes software developed by Charles D. Cranor.
This product includes software developed by Charles Hannum,
by the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College
and Garrett A. Wollman, by William F. Jolitz, and by the
University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory,
and its contributors.
This product includes software developed by Charles Hannum.
This product includes software developed by Charles M. Hannum.
This product includes software developed by Chris Provenzano.
This product includes software developed by Christian E. Hopps.
This product includes software developed by Christopher G. Demetriou
for the NetBSD Project.
This product includes software developed by Christopher G. Demetriou.
This product includes software developed by Christos Zoulas.
This product includes software developed by David Jones and Gordon Ross.
This product includes software developed by Dean Huxley.
This product includes software developed by Eric S. Hvozda.
This product includes software developed by Ezra Story.
This product includes software developed by Gordon Ross.
This product includes software developed by Gordon W. Ross
and Leo Weppelman.
This product includes software developed by Gordon W. Ross.
This product includes software developed by Herb Peyerl.
This product includes software developed by Ian W. Dall.
This product includes software developed by Ignatios Souvatzis
for the NetBSD Project.
This product includes software developed by Jason R. Thorpe
for And Communications, http://www.and.com/.
This product includes software developed by Joachim Koenig-Baltes.
This product includes software developed by Jochen Pohl
for The NetBSD Project.
This product includes software developed by John Polstra.
This product includes software developed by Jonathan Stone
and Jason R. Thorpe for the NetBSD Project.
This product includes software developed by Jonathan Stone
for the NetBSD Project.
This product includes software developed by Jonathan Stone.
This product includes software developed by Julian Highfield.
This product includes software developed by Kenneth Stailey.
This product includes software developed by Leo Weppelman.
This product includes software developed by Lloyd Parkes.
This product includes software developed by Mark Brinicombe.
This product includes software developed by Markus Wild.
This product includes software developed by Martin Husemann
and Wolfgang Solfrank.
This product includes software developed by Mats O Jansson
and Charles D. Cranor.
This product includes software developed by Mats O Jansson.
This product includes software developed by Matthias Pfaller.
This product includes software developed by Paul Kranenburg.
This product includes software developed by Paul Mackerras.
This product includes software developed by Peter Galbavy.
This product includes software developed by Philip A. Nelson.
This product includes software developed by Rodney W. Grimes.
This product includes software developed by Scott Bartram.
This product includes software developed by SigmaSoft, Th.
This product includes software developed by Terrence R. Lambert.
This product includes software developed by Theo de Raadt
and John Brezak.
This product includes software developed by Theo de Raadt.
This product includes software developed by TooLs GmbH.
This product includes software developed by Winning Strategies, Inc.
This product includes software developed by the Center for
Software Science at the University of Utah.
This product includes software developed by the University of Calgary
Department of Computer Science and its contributors.
This product includes software developed by the University of Vermont
and State Agricultural College and Garrett A. Wollman.
This product includes software developed for the FreeBSD project.
This product includes software developed for the Internet
Software Consortium by Ted Lemon.
This product includes software developed for the NetBSD Project
by Frank van der Linden.
This product includes software developed for the NetBSD Project
by Jason R. Thorpe.
This product includes software developed for the NetBSD Project
by John M. Vinopal.
This product includes software developed for the NetBSD Project
by Matthias Drochner.
This product includes software developed for the NetBSD Project
by Matthieu Herrb.
This product includes software developed for the NetBSD Project
by Perry E. Metzger.
This product includes software developed for the NetBSD Project
by Piermont Information Systems Inc.
This product includes software developed for the NetBSD Project
by Ted Lemon.
This product includes software developed by Charles Hannum.
This product includes software developed by Charles Hannum, by
the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College and
Garrett A. Wollman, by William F. Jolitz, and by the
University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory, and its contributors.
This product includes software developed by the University of
Vermont and State Agricultural College and Garrett A. Wollman.
This product includes software developed by Dean Huxley.
This product includes software developed by Herb Peyerl.
In the following statement, "This software" refers to the parallel
port driver:
This software is a component of "386BSD" developed by
William F. Jolitz, TeleMuse.