September 10, 2001 INSTALL 8 NetBSD

NAME

INSTALL - Installation procedure for NetBSD/mac68k.

CONTENTS

                                                              

About this Document............................................1 What is NetBSD?................................................2 Upgrade path to NetBSD 1.5.3...................................2 Major Changes Between 1.5.2 and 1.5.3..........................2 Known Caveats with 1.5.3.......................................4 Major Changes Between 1.5.1 and 1.5.2..........................4 Major Changes Between 1.5 and 1.5.1............................4 Changes Between The NetBSD 1.4 and 1.5 Releases................6 Kernel......................................................7 Networking..................................................7 File system.................................................7 Security....................................................8 System administration and user tools........................8 Miscellaneous...............................................8 The Future of NetBSD...........................................9 Sources of NetBSD.............................................10 NetBSD 1.5.3 Release Contents.................................10 NetBSD/mac68k subdirectory structure.......................11 Binary distribution sets...................................12 NetBSD/mac68k System Requirements and Supported Devices.......13 Supported models...........................................13 Supported devices..........................................14 Unsupported models.........................................14 Known hardware issues with this release....................14 Getting the NetBSD System on to Useful Media..................15 Preparing your System for NetBSD installation.................15 Installing the NetBSD System..................................16 Preparing the file system(s)...............................16 Installing the files.......................................17 Installation of base files.................................18 Booting the system.........................................18 Post installation steps.......................................19 Upgrading a previously-installed NetBSD System................21 Compatibility Issues With Previous NetBSD Releases............23 General issues.............................................24 Issues affecting an upgrade from NetBSD 1.4 or prior.......24 Using online NetBSD documentation.............................24 Administrivia.................................................25 Thanks go to..................................................25 We are........................................................28 Legal Mumbo-Jumbo.............................................31 The End.......................................................33

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What is NetBSD?

The NetBSD Operating System is a fully functional Open Source UNIX-like operating system derived from the University of California, Berkeley Networking Release 2 (Net/2), 4.4BSD-Lite, and 4.4BSD-Lite2 sources. NetBSD runs on thirty-one different system architectures featuring twelve distinct families of CPUs, and is being ported to more. The NetBSD1.5.3 release contains complete binary releases for fifteen different machine types. (The sixteen remaining are not fully supported at this time and are thus not part of the binary distribution. For information on them, please see the NetBSD web site at http://www.netbsd.org/.)

NetBSD is a completely integrated system. In addition to its highly portable, high performance kernel, NetBSD features a complete set of user utilities, compilers for several languages, the X Window System, firewall software and numerous other tools, all accompanied by full source code.

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 NetBSD wouldn't exist.

Upgrade path to NetBSD 1.5.3

If you are not installing your system ``from scratch'' but instead are going to upgrade an existing system already running NetBSD you need to know which versions you can upgrade with NetBSD 1.5.3.

NetBSD 1.5.3 is an upgrade of NetBSD 1.5, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, and earlier major and maintenance releases of NetBSD.

The intermediate development versions of code available on the main trunk in our CVS repository (also known as ``NetBSD-current'') from after the point where the release cycle for 1.5 was started are designated by version identifiers such as 1.5A, 1.5B, etc. These identifiers do not designate releases, but indicate major changes in internal kernel APIs. Note that the kernel from NetBSD 1.5.3 can not be used to upgrade a system running one of those intermediate development versions. Trying to use the NetBSD 1.5.3 kernel on such a system will probably result in problems.

Please also note that it is not possible to do a direct ``version'' comparison between any of the intermediate development versions mentioned above and 1.5.3 to determine if a given feature is present or absent in 1.5.3. The development of 1.5 and the subsequent maintenance releases is done on a separate branch in the CVS repository. The branch was created when the release cycle for 1.5 was started, and during the release cycle of 1.5 and its maintenance releases, selected fixes and enhancements have been imported from the main development trunk. So, there are features in 1.5.3 which were not in, e.g. 1.5B, and vice versa.

Major Changes Between 1.5.2 and 1.5.3

Some highlights are:

  • lpd(8) has been fixed to deal with a security issue (SA2001-018).

  • Drivers for Mylex DAC960, Compaq EISA array controllers, and I2O block/SCSI devices added. This has caused ca(4) to be replaced by ld(4). Drivers for the Mylex DAC960 management interface and DPT/Adaptec I2O RAID management interface has also been added. See dpti(4) and mlxctl(8).

  • A driver for the 3ware Escalade 5000 and 6000 series RAID controllers has been added, see twe(4).

  • Various different fixes have been applied to the network device drivers ep(4), ex(4), rtk(4), sip(4), ti(4), tl(4), and wi(4).

  • Support for some more variants of rtk(4) on CardBus has been added.

  • The ne(4) driver has been extended to support some more pcmcia cards.

  • Support for more pciide(4) controllers added: HPT-370A, Acard ATP-850/860, and AMD-768. Ultra-DMA 100 support added for CMD 0649.

  • A problem with the NFS server code, exposed on NetBSD/alpha, where use of ``..'' would return info for ``.'' has been fixed.

  • Support for ``other-endian'' file systems has been improved.

  • The layout algorithm for FFS file systems has been substantially improved, resulting in better performance, both due to improved locality between files and their corresponding directory, and lessened pressure on the buffer cache.

  • The performance of soft dependencies in FFS has been significantly improved in some circumstances.

  • Handling of init/fini section support and DWARF2 exception handling has been added to the C runtime startup code.

  • OpenSSH has been upgraded to version 3.0.2.

  • A security issue arising from a race between set-uid execution and use of ptrace has been fixed (SA2002-001).

  • The package tools has been extended to provide for optional digital signatures on binary packages. Additionally, binary package version number handling has been rewritten.

  • A driver for Creative Labs SBLive! EMU10000 has been added; see emuxki(4).

  • A driver for ESS Allegro-1 / Maestro-3 has been added; see esa(4).

  • Support for the 53c1010-33 and 53c1510D has been added to the siop(4) driver.

  • IPFilter upgraded to 3.4.23.

  • The boot code on NetBSD/macppc has been improved.

  • sendmail(8) has been upgraded to version 8.11.6.

  • A long file name buffer overrun in gzip has been fixed (SA2002-002).

  • IPSEC policy check has been fixed for forwarded IPv4 packets (SA2002-003).

  • Two security problems in OpenSSH has been fixed (SA2002-004, SA2002-005).

  • A buffer overrun in the resolver part of the C library has been fixed (SA2002-006). To fix this problem in the BIND user utilities, BIND has been upgraded to version 8.3.3.

  • Various other kernel stability and robustness fixes has been applied.

In addition, many bugs have been fixed--more than 70 problems reported through our problem tracking system have been fixed, and several other non-reported problems have also been found and fixed. See the CHANGES-1.5.3 file for the complete list.

Known Caveats with 1.5.3

The following are the major known issues with NetBSD 1.5.3.

  • The upgrade of IPFilter to version 3.4.23 is not backward compatible. This means that the user-land tools used to manage IPFilter will have to be upgraded when the kernel is upgraded.

  • Due to xsrc changes which are not backward compatible on the arm32 port, the X bits for arm32 is built from the 1.5.2 sources.

Major Changes Between 1.5.1 and 1.5.2

The main purpose of NetBSD 1.5.2 is to fix some problems discovered shortly after the release of NetBSD 1.5.1. Some highlights are:

  • telnetd(8) has been fixed to deal with a security issue (SA2001-012).

  • A weakness in the OpenSSL libcrypto's pseudo random number generator has been fixed (SA2001-013).

  • Floating point emulation on i386 (to run on FPU-less CPUs) which was broken late in 1.5.1's cycle has been restored to working order.

  • Bugs in the compiler have been worked around to produce a working miniroot image on sparc64.

  • The script-based installers on amiga, atari and mvme68k have been updated to deal with new behaviour from mount(8).

  • dump(8) has been fixed to deal with a local security issue (SA2001-014).

  • Several system calls have had defensive length checks applied on their arguments (SA2001-015).

  • The DHCP software has been upgraded to ISC Version 3, Release Candidate 10.

Additionally, a few more bugs have been fixed. See the CHANGES-1.5.2 file for the complete list of changes.

Major Changes Between 1.5 and 1.5.1

The complete list of changes between NetBSD 1.5 and 1.5.1 can be found in the file CHANGES-1.5.1 in the top directory of the source tree. The following are highlights only:

  • A driver for the Aironet/Cisco wireless PCMCIA cards has been added; see an(4).

  • NFS client performance has been improved, typically by 40% for writes but possibly up to 100% in certain setups.

  • The siop(4) driver has improved in performance and robustness.

  • Support for cloning pseudo-interfaces has been added. See ifconfig(8).

  • Support for 802.1Q virtual LANs has been added. See vlan(4).

  • The isp(4) driver has been upgraded to (among other things) work on MacPPC.

  • BIND has been upgraded to version 8.2.3 (SA2001-001).

  • Support for booting from RAIDframe RAID1 mirrors on i386 added.

  • The lfs(4) file system has again been substantially updated, but is still experimental.

  • Ultra/66 support has been added for capable VIA chipsets, and Ultra/100 support has been added for the HPT370, Promise and Intel ICH2 controllers in the pciide(4) driver. Support for Intel 82801BAM controllers has also been added, and handling of Ali controllers has been improved.

  • OpenSSH has been updated to deal with a security issue (SA2001-003).

  • Sendmail has been upgraded to version 8.11.3.

  • The ex(4) driver has added support for 3Com 3c555, 3c556 and 3c556B MiniPCI Ethernet cards.

  • A driver for the on-board audio hardware found on many Apple PowerMacs has been added; see awacs(4).

  • The sip(4) driver has been fixed to properly support the dp83815, as found in current Netgear FA311 10/100 cards.

  • ftpd(8) has been updated to deal with two security issues (SA2000-018 and SA2001-005).

  • ntpd(8) has been updated to deal with a security issue (SA2001-004).

  • telnetd(8) has been updated to deal with a security issue (SA2000-017).

  • A vulnerability on i386 related to USER_LDT has been fixed (SA2001-002).

  • The Linux emulation has been enhanced to prepare for the support of using the Linux version of VMware.

  • IP checksumming speed has been improved on i386 compared to NetBSD1.5 by about 10%.

  • Support for the Socket Communications LP-E Type II PCMCIA NE2000 clone card has been added to ne(4).

  • The DHCP software has been upgraded to ISC version 3, Beta 2, patchlevel 24, to fix core dumps in dhclient(8), among other things. Please note that the new dhcpd(8) forces you to configure a "ddns-update-style" of either "ad-hoc", "interim" or "none".

  • Various fixes and enhancements to INET6 and IPSEC code; among them improved interaction between IPF/Nat and IPSEC.

  • The Heimdal kerberos(8) implementation has been upgraded to version 0.3e.

  • Support for Accton EN2242 and other AmdTek AN985 cards added to the tlp(4) driver.

  • Several country-specific keyboard mappings have been added for USB keyboards.

  • A driver for Yamaha YMF724/740/744/745-based sound cards has been added, see yds(4).

  • The maximum number of BSD disklabel partitions on the i386 port has been increased from 8 to 16.

  • Drivers for the AC'97 based audio sound chips ESS Technology Maestro 1, 2, and 2E (see esm(4)), NeoMagic 256 (see neo(4)), and Cirrus Logic CrystalClear PCI Audio CS4281 (see clct(4))have been added.

In addition, many bugs have been fixed--more than 95 problems reported through our problem tracking system have been fixed, and some other non-reported problems have also been found and fixed. See the CHANGES-1.5.1 file for the complete list.

The NetBSD Packages Collection (pkgsrc) which is used to maintain, build, track dependencies, and maintain NetBSD-specific fixes to third-party programs, has received a major overhaul for NetBSD 1.5.1. Some highlights are:

  • Many new packages were added to the collection, which now includes about 2100 packages. Many of them are also available as pre-compiled binaries on ftp.netbsd.org and its mirrors. Many packages have been modified and enhanced to compile and function properly on big-endian (m68k, sparc), and LP64 architectures (alpha, sparc64).

  • KDE2 and KOffice together consitutes a fully integrated office environment with no license problems, available for i386, alpha and many other architectures.

  • Mozilla 0.9, KDE2's Konqueror, and Links 0.95 are just a few examples of the web browsers available.

  • A support package for running VMware on NetBSD/i386 was added, it's called suse_vmware. The official VMware code, a valid license, and Wasabi Systems' compatibility package are all needed to run VMware.

  • Internal changes of the pkgsrc system include strong checksums to prevent malicious distribution files, as well as restructuring of the package structure in pkgsrc for faster extraction of pkgsrc tar files and upgrades via SUP and CVS.

Please note that at the moment, sysinst will not assist you in installing pre-built third-party binary packages or the pkgsrc system itself, so you will have to manually install packages using pkg_install or fetch and extract the pkgsrc.tgz tar file to get started.

Lastly, it should be noted that the X11 binaries shipped in NetBSD 1.5.3 is still based on XFree86 version 3.3.6. Several newer graphics cards are inadequately supported by that code base, but on the other hand support for several older graphics cards is not available in newer XFree86 code. NetBSD is in the process of moving to XFree86 version 4, and is currently maintaining both the XFree86 3.3.6 and the XFree86 version 4 code in the xsrc source set, and you may at compile time pick which sources to build and install. To ease installation, testing and use of the XFree86 version 4 code, a binary snapshot based on XFree86 version 4.0.3 will be made available for at least the i386 architecture shortly after the release of NetBSD 1.5.3.

Changes Between The NetBSD 1.4 and 1.5 Releases

The NetBSD1.5 release provides numerous significant functional enhancements, including support for many new devices, integration of hundreds of bug fixes, new and updated kernel subsystems, and many userland enhancements. The result of these improvements is a stable operating system fit for production use that rivals most commercially available systems.

It is impossible to completely summarize over one year of development that went into the NetBSD1.5.3 release. Some highlights include:

Kernel

  • Ports to new platforms including: arc, cobalt, hpcmips, news68k, sgimips, and sparc64.

  • Improved performance and stability of the UVM virtual memory subsystem.

  • Implementation of generic kernel locking code, as well as a restructure and re-tuning of the scheduler, to be used by the future symmetric multi-processing (SMP) implementation.

  • Improved compatibility support for Linux, OSF1, and SVR4 programs.

  • New compatibility support for Win32 programs.

  • Support for dynamically loaded ELF kernel modules.

  • Kernel process tracing using ktruss(1).

  • Deletion of swap devices using swapctl(8).

  • Easier hot-pluggability of keyboards and mice using a new wscons device--wsmux.

  • Improved PCMCIA and CardBus support, including support for detaching of devices and cards, resulting in better support for notebooks and PDA devices.

  • Numerous hardware improvements, including areas such as: audio, UDMA/66 support for ATA drives, USB, and wireless networking.
Networking

  • Addition of IP version 6 (IPv6) and IPsec to the networking stack, from the KAME project. This includes addition of kernel code for IPv6/IPsec, IPv4/v6 dual-stack user applications and supporting libraries. Due to this, the shlib major version for pcap(3) is incremented and you may need to recompile userland tools. The KAME IPv6 part includes results from the unified-IPv6 effort.
File system

  • Significant Fast file system (FFS) performance enhancements via integration of Kirk McKusick's soft updates and trickle sync code.

  • Support for the Windows NT `NTFS' file system (read-only at this stage).

  • Support for revision 1 of the Linux `ext2fs' file system.

  • Enhanced stability and usability of LFS (the BSD log-structured file system).

  • Various RAIDframe enhancements including: auto-detection of RAID components and auto-configuration of RAID sets, and the ability to configure the root file system (/) on a RAID set.

  • Support for Microsoft Joliet extensions to the ISO9660 CD file system.

  • Improved file system vnode locking mechanisms, thus resolving a source of several panics in the past.

  • Support for NFS and RPC over IPv6.

  • The server part of NFS locking (implemented by rpc.lockd(8)) now works.
Security

  • Strong cryptographic libraries and applications integrated, including the AES cipher Rijndael, the OpenSSL library, more complete Kerberos IV and Kerberos V support, and an SSH server and client.

  • sysctl(3) interfaces to various elements of process and system information, allowing programs such as ps(1), dmesg(1) and the like to operate without recompilation after kernel upgrades, and remove the necessity to run setgid kmem (thus improving system security).

  • Disable various services by default, and set the default options for disabled daemons to a higher level of logging.

  • Several code audits were performed. One audit replaced string routines that were used without bounds checking, and another one identified and disabled places where format strings were used in unsafe ways, allowing arbitrary data to be entered by (possibly) malicious users to overwrite application code, and leading from Denial of Service attacks to compromised systems.

  • sshd(8) and ssh(1) now require rnd(4) kernel random number devices.
System administration and user tools

  • Conversion of the rc(8) system startup and shutdown scripts to an `rc.d' mechanism, with separate control scripts for each service, and appropriate dependency ordering provided by rcorder(8).

  • postfix(1) provided as alternative mail transport agent to sendmail(8).

  • User management tools useradd(8), usermod(8), userdel(8), groupadd(8), groupmod(8), and groupdel(8) added to the system.

  • Incorporation of a login class capability database (/etc/login.conf) from BSD/OS.

  • Improved support for usernames longer than eight characters in programs such as at(1) and w(1).

  • Many enhancements to ftpd(8) providing features found in larger and less secure FTP daemons, such as user classes, connection limits, improved support for virtual hosting, transfer statistics, transfer rate throttling, and support for various IETF ftpext working group extensions.

  • The ftp(1) client has been improved even further, including transfer rate throttling, improved URL support, command line uploads. See the man page for details.
Miscellaneous

  • Updates to the NetBSD source code style code (located in /usr/share/misc/style) to use ANSI C only (instead of K&R) and reflect current (best) practice, and begin migrating the NetBSD source code to follow it.

  • Implementation of many SUSv2 features to the curses(3) library, including support for color.

  • Updates of most third party packages that are shipped in the base system, including file(1), ipfilter(4), ppp(4), and sendmail(8) to the latest stable release.

  • Many new packages in the pkgsrc system, including standard desktops like KDE and GNOME as well as latest Tcl/Tk and perl and many of the components of the Java Enterprise platform. The package framework itself now has full wildcard dependency support.

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.

NetBSD1.5.3 is the sixth major release of NetBSD for the m68k-based Macintosh.

For the mac68k port, NetBSD1.5.3 brings a number of improvements:

  • Serial console support on the Quadra 900/950.

  • wscons integration.

There is still a lot of work to be done and help is welcomed. Please jump in! NetBSD1.5.3 on mac68k is, as usual, also fully backward compatible with old NetBSD/mac68k binaries, so you don't need to recompile all of your local programs.

The Future of NetBSD

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 intend to begin narrowing the time delay between releases. Our ambition is to provide a full release every six to eight months.

We hope to support even more hardware in the future, and we 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 submit 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

Refer to http://www.netbsd.org/Sites/net.html.

NetBSD 1.5.3 Release Contents

The root directory of the NetBSD1.5.3 release is organized as follows:

.../NetBSD-1.5.3/

CHANGES
Changes since earlier NetBSD releases.

LAST_MINUTE
Last minute changes.

MIRRORS
A list of sites that mirror the NetBSD1.5.3 distribution.

README.files
README describing the distribution's contents.

TODO
NetBSD's todo list (also somewhat 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 NetBSD1.5.3 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 that may be subject to export regulations of the United States, e.g. code under src/crypto and src/sys/crypto. 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:

gnusrc
This set contains the ``gnu'' sources, including the source for the compiler, assembler, groff, and the other GNU utilities in the binary distribution sets.
22.3 MB gzipped, 98.8 MB uncompressed

pkgsrc
This set contains the ``pkgsrc'' sources, which contain the infrastructure to build third-party packages.
7.4 MB gzipped, 73.0 MB uncompressed

sharesrc
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.
3.3 MB gzipped, 13.2 MB uncompressed

src
This set contains all of the base NetBSD1.5.3 sources which are not in gnusrc, sharesrc, or syssrc.
24.8 MB gzipped, 123.1 MB uncompressed

syssrc
This set contains the sources to the NetBSD1.5.3 kernel for all architectures; config(8); and dbsym(8).
18.0 MB gzipped, 90.9 MB uncompressed

xsrc
This set contains the sources to the X Window System.
78.1 MB gzipped, 393.6 MB uncompressed

All the above source sets are located in the source/sets subdirectory of the distribution tree.

The source sets are distributed as compressed tar files. They may be unpacked into /usr/src with the command:


       #( cd / ; tar -zxpf - ) < set_name.tgz

The sets/Split/ subdirectory contains 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 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.?? | ( cd / ; tar -zxpf - )

In each of the source distribution set directories, there are files which contain the checksums of the files in the directory:

BSDSUM
Historic BSD checksums for the various files in that directory, in the format produced by the command: cksum -o 1 file.

CKSUM
POSIX checksums for the various files in that directory, in the format produced by the command: cksum file.

MD5
MD5 digests for the various files in that directory, in the format produced by the command: cksum -m file.

SYSVSUM
Historic AT&T System V UNIX checksums for the various files in that directory, in the format produced by the command: cksum -o -2 file.

The MD5 digest is the safest checksum, followed by the POSIX checksum. The other two checksums are provided only to ensure that the widest possible range of system can check the integrity of the release files.

NetBSD/mac68k subdirectory structure
The mac68k-specific portion of the NetBSD1.5.3 release is found in the mac68k subdirectory of the distribution: .../NetBSD-1.5.3/mac68k/
INSTALL.html
INSTALL.ps
INSTALL.txt
INSTALL.more
Installation notes in various file formats, including this file. The .more file contains underlined text using the more(1) conventions for indicating italic and bold display.
binary/
kernel/
netbsd.GENERIC.gz
A gzipped NetBSD kernel containing code for everything supported in this release.
sets/
mac68k binary distribution sets; see below.
installation/
floppy/
mac68k boot and installation floppies; see below.
misc/
Miscellaneous mac68k installation utilities; see installation section, below.
Binary distribution sets
The NetBSD mac68k binary distribution sets contain the binaries which comprise the NetBSD1.5.3 release for the mac68k. There are eight binary distribution sets. The binary distribution sets can be found in the mac68k/binary/sets subdirectory of the NetBSD1.5.3 distribution tree, and are as follows:

base
The NetBSD1.5.3 mac68k 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.
15.7 MB gzipped, 41.6 MB uncompressed

comp
Things needed for compiling programs. 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.
11.8 MB gzipped, 39.7 MB 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.
0.1 MB gzipped, 0.6 MB uncompressed

games
This set includes the games and their manual pages.
3.0 MB gzipped, 7.4 MB uncompressed

kern
This set contains a NetBSD/mac68k 1.5.3 GENERIC kernel, named /netbsd. You must install this distribution set.

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.
5.6 MB gzipped, 22.7 MB uncompressed

misc
This set includes the (rather large) system dictionaries, the typesettable document set, and other files from /usr/share.
2.2 MB gzipped, 7.5 MB uncompressed

text
This set includes NetBSD's text processing tools, including groff(1), all related programs, and their manual pages.
1.3 MB gzipped, 4.7 MB uncompressed

NetBSD maintains its own set of sources for the X Window System in order to assure tight integration and compatibility. These sources are based on XFree86, and tightly track XFree86 releases. The binaries shipped with NetBSD 1.5.3 are based on XFree86 version 3.3.6. NetBSD is in the process of moving to XFree86 version 4, and the X source set actually contains source for both XFree86 3.3.6 and XFree86 4, and the ability to decide at compile-time which one to build and install. The X Window System binary sets distributed with NetBSD are:

xbase
The basic files needed for a complete X client environment. This does not include the X servers.
2.6 MB gzipped, 8.2 MB uncompressed

xcomp
The extra libraries and include files needed to compile X source code.
1.7 MB gzipped, 7.2 MB uncompressed

xcontrib
Programs that were contributed to X.
0.2 MB gzipped, 0.7 MB uncompressed

xfont
Fonts needed by X.
6.2 MB gzipped, 7.5 MB uncompressed

xserver
The Xmac68k Em monochrome server with man pages.
1.4 MB gzipped, 3.4 MB uncompressed

The mac68k binary distribution sets are distributed as gzipped tar files named with the extension .tgz, e.g. base.tgz.

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 /-relative and therefore 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 -xpf command from /.

Additional kernels to those included in the distribution sets may be found in the mac68k/binary/kernels subdirectory of the NetBSD1.5.3 distribution tree. These kernels are generally named something like netbsd-GENERIC.gz or some other suitable name. Please note that these kernels are simply gzipped and are not in tar archives.

The MacOS based utilities necessary for installing and running NetBSD can be found in the mac68k/installation/misc subdirectory of the NetBSD1.5.3 distribution tree. The important files in this directory are as follows:

Booter.sea.hqx
The NetBSD/mac68k Booter utility. This program is used to boot the NetBSD kernel from within MacOS.
141 KB archived

Installer.sea.hqx
The NetBSD/mac68k Installer utility. This program is used to install the distribution sets onto your NetBSD partition(s).
147 KB archived

Mkfs.sea.hqx
The Mkfs utility. This program is used to format your chosen partitions so that they can be used with NetBSD.
76 KB archived

These files are all binhexed, self-extracting archives. If you need them, the sources for these utilities are in the src subdirectory.

Note:
Each directory in the mac68k binary distribution also has its own checksum files, just as the source distribution does.

NetBSD/mac68k System Requirements and Supported Devices

NetBSD/mac68k 1.5.3 runs on several of the older Macintosh computers. About 4 MB of RAM might be sufficient to boot, and the system can probably be squeezed onto a 40 MB hard disk by leaving off an unnecessary set or two. To actually do much compiling or anything more interesting than booting, at least 8 MB of RAM and more disk space is recommended. About 95 MB will be necessary to install all of the NetBSD1.5.3 binary system distribution sets (note that this does not count swap space!). An additional 30 MB or so is needed for the binary X11 distribution sets. Much more disk space is required to install the source and objects as well (at least another 300 MB).

Supported models
  • Mac II, IIx, IIcx, SE/30, IIci, IIsi, IIvx, IIvi
  • Performa 400/405/410/430, Performa 450, Performa 460/466/467
  • Performa 520, Performa 550/560, Performa 600
  • LC II, LC III, LC III+, LC 520, LC 550
  • MacTV
  • Centris 650
  • Quadra 610, Quadra 630, Quadra 650, Quadra 700, Quadra 800
  • Quadra/Centris 660AV, Quadra 840AV
Supported devices
  • Onboard SCSI bus and most SCSI tapes, hard drives, and CD-ROMs
  • Internal sound - enough to beep on some machines, anyway
  • Most basic NuBus video cards (there have been some problems with some 24-bit color cards and with most QuickDraw acclerators)
  • Both internal serial ports
  • ADB keyboards and mice (both Apple and a number of third party multi-button mice and trackballs are supported)
  • Ethernet cards based on the National Semiconductor 8390 and the SONIC (DP83932) chips (Asante, Apple, and a few others - problems still with Ethernet and many NuBus video cards)
  • Ethernet cards based on the SMC 91c92 and 91c100 (FEAST) chips. This includes the AsanteFAST 10/100 cards
  • Onboard Ethernet based on the SONIC chip for Quadra-series Macs
  • Onboard Ethernet based on the MACE (Am79C940) chip for the Quadra AV-series Macs
  • Comm-slot Ethernet should be working for most machines/cards

If your 68030 system is not listed above, it may be because of a problem with accessing onboard video, and it may still work with a serial console. Some of the known ones in this category:

  • Classic-series Macs
  • PowerBook 100-series and Duo-series Macs

If your 68LC040 system is not listed above, it is due to a problem with floating point emulation (FPE) for this type of processor. Machines in this category include:

  • Newer LC-series machines
  • Newer Performa-series machines
  • Some PowerBook 500-series Macs
Unsupported models

  • Macintosh IIfx

    This machine has unusual custom chips for the ADB and serial interfaces which make support for it difficult. Work is in progress on this, though.

  • Quadra 900/950

    These machines have I/O processor chips for their ADB interfaces similar to those used in the IIfx and thus face similar support problems.

  • PowerPC-based Macs

    This is a separate effort from the mac68k port. PowerMacs use hardware that is often fairly different from that of the mac68k port. If you are interested in this, you might want to take a look at the new NetBSD/macppc port: http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/index.html

Known hardware issues with this release

  • Real Time Clock

    Due to oddities of the Macintosh hardware interrupt priority scheme, NetBSD/mac68k keeps very poor time. Under a high interrupt load (e.g. SCSI or serial port activity) , a machine can lose several minutes per hour. A consequence of this problem is that attempting to run xntpd is rather pointless unless you periodically call ntpdate.

  • SCSI difficulties

    The NetBSD/mac68k SCSI drivers are not quite as robust as their MacOS counterparts. Symptoms of these problems are that some SCSI disks will not work under NetBSD that work fine under MacOS. Other problems include occasional file system corruption with some types of drives and the general unreliability of removable SCSI media. Keep in mind that there are no clear patterns with these problems, and they do not appear to affect the majority of users.


Getting the NetBSD System on to Useful Media

Installation is currently only supported from the local Macintosh hard drive, from a CD-ROM, or from an AppleShare volume (however, you may upgrade a system from within NetBSD ; see the section on upgrading for more details). If you are installing from a local hard drive, this means that you'll need at least enough room for the largest file that you will have to install. This is the 15.2 MB base.tgz file. There has been talk of allowing an install from split files. If you have the time, desire, and knowledge, please feel free to add that functionality.

If the install is being done from an AppleShare-mounted volume, the install utility must be in the same folder as the binary distribution sets.

Each distribution file is in raw archive format.

  • Distribution files must be downloaded in binary mode. Common web browsers may not be suitable for this task; FTP clients such as Fetch and Anarchie work fine, but be sure to specify a binary file transfer.

  • The files should not be unpacked. If you have the Internet Config extension installed, you can disable this in the ``Helpers'' dialog by removing the entry associated with ``.tgz'' files. Other FTP clients may require separate changes; consult your package's documentation.

  • If you are installing from a CD-ROM, the distribution sets are already in the proper format and no special handling is required.

You will also need to collect the MacOS installation tools from the mac68k/installation/misc subdirectory of the NetBSD1.5.3 distribution: Mkfs, NetBSD/mac68k Installer, and NetBSD/mac68k Booter. These three are in binhexed, self-extracting archives as Mkfs.sea.hqx, Installer.sea.hqx, and Booter.sea.hqx, respectively. Extract them as you would any other Macintosh application.

Preparing your System for NetBSD installation

Find your favorite disk partitioning utility. Any formatter capable of partitioning a SCSI disk should work. Some of the ones that have been tried and seem to work are:

  • Apple HD SC Setup
  • Hard Disk ToolKit from FWB
  • SCSI Director Lite
  • Disk Manager Mac from OnTrack
  • Silverlining from LaCie
  • APS Disk Tools

Apple's HD SC Setup is probably the easiest to use and the most commonly available. Instructions for patching HD SC Setup so that it will recognize non-Apple drives is available at:

http://www.euronet.nl/users/ernstoud/patch.html

First, you need to choose a drive on which to install NetBSD. Try to pick a drive with a low SCSI-ID number, especially if you are likely to add or remove drives to your SCSI chain in the future.

Note:
Be sure you have a reliable backup of any data which you may want to keep. Repartitioning your hard drive is an excellent way to destroy important data.

Second, decide how you want to set up your partitions. At minimum, you need a partition to hold the NetBSD installation (the root partition - /) and a partition to serve as swap. You may choose to use more than one partition to hold the installation. This allows you to separate the more vital portions of the file system (such as the kernel and the /etc directory) from the more volatile parts of the file system. Typical setups place the /usr directory on a separate partition from the root partition (/). Generally, / can be fairly small while the /usr partition should be fairly large. If you plan to use this machine as a server, you may also want a separate /var partition.

Once you have decided how to lay out your partitions, you need to calculate how much space to allocate to each partition. A minimal install of NetBSD (i.e. netbsd.tgz, base.tgz, and etc.tgz) should just fit in a 32 MB partition. For a full installation, you should allocate at least 95 MB (150 MB if you wish to install the X sets as well). A general rule of thumb for sizing the swap partition is to allocate twice as much swap space as you have real memory. Having your swap + real memory total at least 20 MB is also a good idea. Systems that will be heavily used or that are low on real memory should have more swap space allocated. Systems that will be only lightly used or have a very large amount of real memory can get away with less.

Keep in mind that NetBSD currently requires MacOS in order to boot, so it is likely that you will want to keep at least a minimal install of MacOS around on an HFS partition for this purpose. The size of this partition may vary depending on the size requirements for the version of MacOS you are using. Of course, if you have MacOS on another hard drive or can boot from a floppy, feel free to dedicate the entire drive to NetBSD.

Next, use your favorite partitioning utility to make partitions of the necessary sizes. You can use any type of partition, but partitions of type Apple_Free might save you some confusion in the future.

You are now set to install NetBSD on your hard drive.

Installing the NetBSD System

The installation can be broken down into three basic steps:

  • Run Mkfs to build a file system or file systems.
  • Run the Installer to load the files onto your file systems.
  • Run the Booter to boot the system.
Preparing the file system(s)
Double-click on the Mkfs application icon to start it up. It will ask you for the SCSI-ID of the drive that you are installing upon. Once this is selected, it will present a list of the partitions on that disk. You must first convert the partitions to a type which NetBSD can understand. Select each partition on which you wish to build a file system and click on the ``Change'' button. If you are placing the entire installation on a single partition, select the ``NetBSD Root&Usr'' radio button. If you are using multiple partitions, select ``NetBSD Root'' for the root partition (/) and ``NetBSD Usr'' for all the other partitions. You should select ``NetBSD Swap'' for the swap partition.

When you have finished converting each partition, select each partition and click on the ``Format'' button. You will now be asked for a bunch of parameters for the hard drive and the file system. Usually, you can just take the defaults. If you are installing onto removable media (e.g. a Zip, Jaz, or Syquest), please see the FAQ. Note that although this dialog only has the ``OK'' button, you are not committed, yet. Once you get the values you want, press the ``OK'' button. A dialog will be presented at this point with two options: ``Format'' and ``Cancel''. If you choose ``Cancel'', nothing will be written to your drive. If you choose ``Format'', the program will proceed to make a file system.

Mkfs is not a well-behaved Macintosh application. It will not allow any other tasks to run while it does (cooperative multitasking at its best). When it's finished, the program will put up a dialog to ask if you have scanned the output for any error messages. Usually there won't have been any errors, but do scan the output to make sure. Simply click on the ``I Read It'' button and the program will quit.

Repeat as necessary for any extra partitions that you wish to make file systems on. Note that you do not need a file system on your swap partition.

When you are finished, click on the ``Done'' button and choose ``Quit'' from the ``File'' menu to exit Mkfs.

Installing the files
Before using the Installer, it is probably a good idea to increase its memory allocation. Select the Installer icon by clicking on it and choose ``Get Info'' from the File menu. Increase both the Minimum and Preferred sizes to as much as you can spare.

Double-click on the Installer icon to start it up. The Installer will present the same SCSI-ID menu that Mkfs did. Select the same SCSI-ID that you did for Mkfs - i.e., the one you are installing onto.

If you are installing onto a single root partition (/), proceed to the Installation of base files section, below.

If you have not created file systems for / (root), usr, and any other file systems, go back to Preparing the file system(s) above.

When you started the Installer, it mounted your root partition (/). Just before it printed,

       Mounting partition 'A' as / ,

it printed lines like:


       sd1 at scsi ID 5.

This means that the device for SCSI-ID 5 is sd1. The partitions are signified by a trailing letter. For instance, sd1a would be the root partition (/) of the second SCSI disk in the chain, and sd0g would be the first Usr partition on the first SCSI disk.

You will need to know the proper device to mount the remaining partition(s) by hand:

  1. Select ``Build Devices'' from the ``File'' menu.

  2. Select ``Mini Shell'' from the ``File'' menu.

  3. You can use the disklabel command to get a listing of the available partitions and their types and sizes.

  4. Create the directory mount point(s) with the command:


           # mkdir path

    E.g. for the /usr partition type:


           # mkdir /usr

  5. Mount the file systems you wish with the command:


           # mount device path
    For example, if you wish to mount a /usr partition from the first SCSI disk sd0, on /usr, you would type:


           # mount /dev/sd0g /usr

  6. Type
           # fstab force
    to create a proper /etc/fstab file.

  7. Type quit after you have mounted all the file systems.
Installation of base files
Select the Install menu item from the File menu and install base.tgz, etc.tgz, netbsd.tgz, and any other sets you wish to install at this time. (See the contents section for information about what's in each set.) The Installer will print out the filename of each file as it is installed, and will take quite some time to install everything (the base package alone can take over an hour on a slow hard drive).

As is the case with Mkfs, this is not a particularly well-behaved Macintosh application and the machine will be completely tied up while the installation takes place.

At some point after installing the base set, select the Build Devices option from the File menu if you have not already done so. This will create a bunch of device nodes for you and will create your initial /etc/fstab. The Installer program also has an option to give you a mini-shell. Do not use this unless you are sure know what you are doing.

When you are finished installing all of the sets you wish to install, exit the Installer by choosing Quit from the File menu.

Booting the system
Prior to attempting to boot NetBSD/mac68k, please verify that all of the following are true:

  1. 32-bit addressing is enabled [1] in the Memory control panel;

  2. All forms of virtual memory are disabled (the Memory control panel, RAM Doubler, or other software-based memory enhancement products); and

  3. Your system is in B&W mode (1-bit color or grayscale) as shown by the Monitors control panel. You may choose to have the Booter do this for you automatically by selecting the appropriate check box and radio button in the Monitors dialog on the Options menu.

It is probably best to boot your machine with all extensions turned off [1]. You can do this by booting into MacOS with the SHIFT key held down. You may have to restart your Macintosh for changes to take effect before proceeding.

[1]
If your version of the Memory control panel does not have a 32-bit addressing mode radio button, this means that your system is already 32-bit clean and is running in 32-bit addressing mode by default. If the Booter complains that your are not in 32-bit mode, it may be necessary for you to press the ``Use Defaults'' button in the Memory control panel to restore 32-bit addressing. You should probably reboot after doing so. If you have an older II-class system (including the II, IIx, IIcx, and SE/30), it is necessary to install Connectix's MODE32 to work around ROM issues which prevent you from enabling 32-bit addressing. Please see
http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/mac68k/faq/the FAQ
for more information.

Double-click on the NetBSD/mac68k Booter icon to start the application. Select Booting from the Options menu. Check that all of the items in the resulting dialog look sane - especially the SCSI-ID. If not, correct them to your preference (the SCSI-ID should be the only thing you need to change). When you are satisfied with your choices, try booting NetBSD by selecting Boot Now from the Options menu.

If you wish to save your preferences, choose Save Options from the File menu before Booting (your preferences will not be saved if you forget to do this).

If the system does not come up, send mail to port-mac68k@netbsd.org describing your software, your hardware, and as complete a description of the problem as you can.

If the system does come up, congratulations, you have successfully installed NetBSD1.5.3.

Post installation steps

Once you've got the operating system running, there are a few things you need to do in order to bring the system into a properly configured state, with the most important ones described below.

  1. Configuring /etc/rc.conf

    If you or the installation software haven't done any configuration of /etc/rc.conf (sysinst usually will), the system will drop you into single user mode on first reboot with the message

           /etc/rc.conf is not configured. Multiuser boot aborted.

    and with the root file system (/) mounted read-write. When the system asks you to choose a shell, simply press RETURN to get to a /bin/sh prompt. If you are asked for a terminal type, respond with vt220 (or whatever is appropriate for your terminal type) and press RETURN. You may need to type one of the following commands to get your delete key to work properly, depending on your keyboard:
           # stty erase '^h'
           # stty erase '^?'
    At this point, you need to configure at least one file in the /etc directory. You will need to mount your root filesystem read/write with:
           # /sbin/mount -u -w /
    Change to the /etc directory and take a look at the /etc/rc.conf file. Modify it to your tastes, making sure that you set rc_configured=YES so that your changes will be enabled and a multi-user boot can proceed. Default values for the various programs can be found in /etc/defaults/rc.conf, where some in-line documentation may be found. More complete documentation can be found in rc.conf(5).

    If your /usr directory is on a separate partition and you do not know how to use ed, you will have to mount your /usr partition to gain access to ex or vi. Do the following:


           # mount /usr

           # export TERM=vt220

    If you have /var on a separate partition, you need to repeat that step for it. After that, you can edit /etc/rc.conf with vi(1). When you have finished, type exit at the prompt to leave the single-user shell and continue with the multi-user boot.

    Other values that need to be set in /etc/rc.conf for a networked environment are hostname and possibly defaultroute, furthermore add an ifconfig_int for your <int> network interface, along the lines of


           ifconfig_de0="inet 123.45.67.89 netmask 255.255.255.0"

    or, if you have myname.my.dom in /etc/hosts:


           ifconfig_de0="inet myname.my.dom netmask 255.255.255.0"

    To enable proper hostname resolution, you will also want to add an /etc/resolv.conf file or (if you are feeling a little more adventurous) run named(8). See resolv.conf(5) or named(8) for more information.

    Other files in /etc that may require modification or setting up include /etc/mailer.conf, /etc/nsswitch.conf, and /etc/wscons.conf.

  2. Logging in

    After reboot, you can log in as root at the login prompt. Unless you've set a password in sysinst, there is no initial password. If you're using the machine in a networked environment, you should create an account for yourself (see below) and protect it and the ``root'' account with good passwords. Unless you have connected an unusual terminal device as the console you can just press RETURN when it prompts for Terminal type? [...].

  3. Adding accounts

    Use the useradd(8) command to add accounts to your system, do not edit /etc/passwd directly. See useradd(8) for more information on how to add a new user to the system.

  4. The X Window System

    If you have installed the X Window System, look at the files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc for information.

    Don't forget to add /usr/X11R6/bin to your path in your shell's dot file so that you have access to the X binaries.

  5. Installing third party packages

    If you wish to install any of the software freely available for UNIX-like systems you are strongly advised to first check the NetBSD package system. This automatically handles any changes necessary to make the software run on NetBSD, retrieval and installation of any other packages on which the software may depend, and simplifies installation (and deinstallation), both from source and precompiled binaries.

    - More information on the package system is at http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/software/packages.html

    - A browsable listing of available packages is at ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/README.html

    - Precompiled binaries can be found at ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages, usually in the 1.5.3/mac68k/All subdir. You can install them with the following commands:

    # export PKG_PATH=\
    ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/1.5.3/mac68k/All\;\
    ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/1.5/mac68k/All
    # pkg_add -v tcsh
    # pkg_add -v cvs
    # pkg_add -v apache
    # pkg_add -v perl
    ...
    

    The above commands will install the tcsh shell, the CVS source code management system, the Apache web server and the perl programming language as well as all the packages they depend on.

    - Package sources for compiling packages on your own can be obtained by retrieving the file ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/tar_files/pkgsrc.tar.gz They are typically extracted into /usr/pkgsrc (though other locations work fine), with the commands:


           # mkdir /usr/pkgsrc
           #( cd /usr/pkgsrc ; tar -zxpf - ) < pkgsrc.tar.gz

    After extracting, then see the README file in the extraction directory (e.g. /usr/pkgsrc/README) for more information.

  6. Misc

    - Edit /etc/mail/aliases to forward root mail to the right place. Don't forget to run newaliases(1) afterwards.

    - The /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file will almost definitely need to be adjusted; files aiding in this can be found in /usr/share/sendmail. See the README file there for more information.

    - Edit /etc/rc.local to run any local daemons you use.

    - Many of the /etc files are documented in section 5 of the manual; so just invoking


           # man 5 filename

    is likely to give you more information on these files.


Upgrading a previously-installed NetBSD System

The upgrade to NetBSD1.5.3 is a binary upgrade; it can be quite difficult to advance to a later version by recompiling from source due primarily to interdependencies in the various components.

No automated upgrade procedure exists for upgrading to release 1.5.3 for the NetBSD/mac68k architecture. The current procedure is essentially to perform a new install from scratch. It is hoped that there will be a good upgrade procedure for future releases. Please feel free to volunteer to help replace these installation tools.

The following steps outline the current upgrade procedure. These steps should help ease the upgrade process. Please read these instructions carefully and completely before proceeding.

  1. Since upgrading involves replacing 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. Although the upgrade should not damage your file system(s) in any way, you never know what may happen.

  2. Download the distribution sets you want from the mac68k/binary/sets subdirectory of the NetBSD1.5.3 distribution. You will need the base set and the kernel at a minimum. Be sure to download the files in binary mode. If you will be upgrading from within NetBSD, make sure that you place the distribution sets on a file system you will be able to reach from single-user mode.

  3. Install the 1.5.3 kernel. You may either use the Installer utility (included in the installation/misc subdirectory) or install from within NetBSD (the latter is recommended for speed reasons). If you choose the former, proceed as you normally would. If you choose to install from within NetBSD, then boot (or shutdown) into single-user mode and do the following:

           # cd /
           # pax -zrvpe -f /path/to/kern.tgz

    There is no need to backup your old kernel explicitly since it will be incapable of running many of the newer binaries you are about to install. (Unless, of course, you have a backup copy of your older binaries and want to revert to them for some reason.) However, you might want to keep a backup if you are upgrading from within NetBSD just in case the newer kernel has trouble booting your machine.

  4. If you are installing using the Installer, skip to step 5. Otherwise, reboot into NetBSD in single-user mode. Run fsck -f and then mount all local partitions read/write. Usually mount -a -t nonfs should do the trick, but if you have several partitions on the same disk, take note of the fact that a change in partition numbering may have moved a few of your partitions around. You can do a disklabel sdX (where X is a drive on which you have NetBSD partitions) to see how the partitions are currently layed out. It is likely that a partition has shifted into the sdXd or sdXe slots, slots that often were not available under previous releases of NetBSD. If this is the case, you will need to manually mount your root partition (/) via mount -w / and edit your /etc/fstab file to reflect the new partition layout. Unless you are familiar with ex(1) or ed(1). the easiest way to fix your /etc/fstab file is probably to simply do a cat > /etc/fstab and type in the corrected file in its entirety.

  5. Install the distribution sets. Keep in mind that the NetBSD1.5.3 distribution takes up a considerably larger amount of disk space than did the 1.3 family of distributions. If you are using the Installer, proceed normally (remember that you will need to mount non-root partitions by hand using the MiniShell before installing). If you are installing from within NetBSD, do the following:


           # cd /
           # pax -zrvpe -f /path/to/base.tgz

    Keep in mind that there is no going back once you have installed the base set short of a complete re-install of an earlier distribution. Continue with the appropriate command line for each of the other sets you wish to install except for the etc set. If you are in the Installer, open up the Minishell and do the following:


           cd /tmp
           exit

    Ignore the warning message this will cause. Now, use the Installer to install the etc set (it will install into /tmp instead of the /etc directory).

    If you are in NetBSD, do the following instead:


           # cd /tmp
           # pax -zrvpe -f /path/to/etc.tgz

  6. If you are in the Installer, quit it and boot into NetBSD in single-user mode. From there, cd to the /tmp/etc directory and compare each file there with your old files in /etc. You will probably want to replace some of your system configuration files, or incorporate some of the changes in the new versions into yours. You should take note of the following when upgrading to the NetBSD1.5.3 etc.tgz set:

    - Several of the options given to many of the file systems have changed, and some of the file systems have changed names.

    Note:
    It is imperative that you change any instances of ufs /etc/fstab to ffs.
    To find out more about different file system options, read the man page for the associated mount command (e.g. mount_mfs(8) for MFS file systems; note: FFS type file systems are documented in the mount(8) man page). If you have not already done so, you may also need to correct /etc/fstab for a shift in the partition numbering scheme. See step 4 above for more details.

    - You will also probably want to upgrade your device nodes at this time as well. Make sure you have installed the latest MAKEDEV script (it should be included in the etc set) and perform the following commands:


           # cd /dev
           # sh MAKEDEV all

  7. Run fsck -f to make sure that your file system is still consistent. If fsck reports any errors, fix them by answering `y' to its suggested solutions

    Note:
    If there are a large number of errors, you may wish to stop and run fsck -fy to automatically answer yes instead.

  8. Exit from single-user mode and it should continue to boot into multi-user mode.

At this point you have successfully upgraded to NetBSD1.5.3.

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 NetBSD1.5.3.

General issues

- /etc/rc modified to use /etc/rc.d/*

Prior to NetBSD1.5, /etc/rc was a traditional BSD style monolithic file; each discrete program or substem from /etc/rc and /etc/netstart has been moved into separate scripts in /etc/rc.d/.

At system startup, /etc/rc uses rcorder(8) to build a dependency list of the files in /etc/rc.d and then executes each script in turn with an argument of `start'. Many rc.d scripts won't start unless the appropriate rc.conf(5) entry in /etc/rc.conf is set to `YES.'

At system shutdown, /etc/rc.shutdown uses rcorder(8) to build a dependency list of the files in /etc/rc.d that have a ``KEYWORD: shutdown'' line, reverses the resulting list, and then executes each script in turn with an argument of `stop'. The following scripts support a specific shutdown method: cron, inetd, local, and xdm.

Local and third-party scripts may be installed into /etc/rc.d as necessary. Refer to the other scripts in that directory and rc(8) for more information on implementing rc.d scripts.

Issues affecting an upgrade from NetBSD 1.4 or prior

- named(8) leaks version information

Previous releases of NetBSD disabled a feature of named(8) where the version number of the server could be determined by remote clients. This feature has not been disabled in NetBSD1.5, because there is a named.conf(5) option to change the version string:

 option {
        version "newstring";
 };

- sysctl(8) pathname changed

sysctl(8) is moved from /usr/sbin/sysctl to /sbin/sysctl. If you have hardcoded references to the full pathname (in shell scripts, for example) please be sure to update those.

- sendmail(8) configuration file pathname changed

Due to sendmail(8) upgrade from 8.9.x to 8.10.x, /etc/sendmail.cf is moved to /etc/mail/sendmail.cf. Also, the default sendmail.cf(5) refers different pathnames than before. For example, /etc/aliases is now located at /etc/mail/aliases, /etc/sendmail.cw is now called /etc/mail/local-host-names, and so forth. If you have customized sendmail.cf(5) and friends, you will need to move the files to the new locations. See /usr/share/sendmail/README for more information.

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 lowest 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 majordomo@netbsd.org. 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(1) 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(1) 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, or visit http://www.netbsd.org/MailingLists/. 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 us mail 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 or WWW 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

- The 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.

- Vixie Enterprises for hosting the NetBSD FTP, SUP, and WWW servers.

- Redback Networks, Inc. for hosting the NetBSD mail and GNATS server.

- The Helsinki University of Technology in Finland for hosting the NetBSD CVS server.

- The Internet Research Institute in Japan for hosting the server which runs the CVSweb interface to the NetBSD source tree.

- The many organisations that provide NetBSD mirror sites.

- 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 burgess@cynjut.infonet.net has been maintaining the 386BSD/NetBSD/FreeBSD FAQ for quite some time, and deserves to be recognized for it.

- The following individuals and organizations (each in alphabetical order) have made donations or loans of hardware and/or money, to support NetBSD development, and deserve credit for it:

Steve Allen
Jason Birnschein
Mason Loring Bliss
Jason Brazile
Mark Brinicombe
David Brownlee
Simon Burge
Dave Burgess
Ralph Campbell
Brian Carlstrom
James Chacon
Bill Coldwell
Charles Conn
Tom Coulter
Charles D. Cranor
Christopher G. Demetriou
Scott Ellis
Hubert Feyrer
Castor Fu
Greg Gingerich
William Gnadt
Michael Graff
Guenther Grau
Ross Harvey
Charles M. Hannum
Michael L. Hitch
Kenneth Alan Hornstein
Jordan K. Hubbard
Søren Jørvang
Scott Kaplan
Noah M. Keiserman
Harald Koerfgen
John Kohl
Chris Legrow
Ted Lemon
Norman R. McBride
Neil J. McRae
Perry E. Metzger
Toru Nishimura
Herb Peyerl
Mike Price
Dave Rand
Michael Richardson
Heiko W. Rupp
Brad Salai
Chuck Silvers
Thor Lancelot Simon
Bill Sommerfeld
Paul Southworth
Eric and Rosemary Spahr
Ted Spradley
Kimmo Suominen
Jason R. Thorpe
Steve Wadlow
Krister Walfridsson
Jim Wise
Reinoud Zandijk
Christos Zoulas

AboveNet Communications, Inc.
Advanced System Products, Inc.
Avalon Computer Systems
Bay Area Internet Solutions
Brains Corporation, Japan
Canada Connect Corporation
Co-operative Research Centre for Enterprise Distributed Systems Technology
Demon Internet, UK
Digital Equipment Corporation
Distributed Processing Technology
Easynet, UK
Free Hardware Foundation
Innovation Development Enterprises of America
Internet Software Consortium
MS Macro System GmbH, Germany
Numerical Aerospace Simulation Facility, NASA Ames Research Center
Piermont Information Systems Inc.
Precedence Technologies Ltd
Salient Systems Inc.
VMC Harald Frank, Germany
Warped Communications, Inc.
Whitecross Database Systems Ltd.
(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:
Jun-ichiro itojun Haginoitojun@netbsd.org
Frank van der Lindenfvdl@netbsd.org
Luke Mewburnlukem@netbsd.org
Christos Zoulaschristos@netbsd.org

The portmasters (and their ports):
Mark Brinicombemark@netbsd.org arm32
Simon Burgesimonb@netbsd.org pmax
Jeremy Cooperjeremy@netbsd.org sun3x
Matt Fredettefredette@netbsd.org sun2
Ross Harveyross@netbsd.org alpha
Jun-ichiro itojun Haginoitojun@netbsd.org sh3
Ben Harrisbjh21@netbsd.org arm26
Eduardo Horvatheeh@netbsd.org sparc64
Darrin Jewelldbj@netbsd.org next68k
Søren Jørvangsoren@netbsd.org cobalt
Søren Jørvangsoren@netbsd.org sgimips
Wayne Knowleswdk@netbsd.org mipsco
Paul Kranenburgpk@netbsd.org sparc
Anders Magnussonragge@netbsd.org vax
Minoura Makotominoura@netbsd.org x68k
Phil Nelsonphil@netbsd.org pc532
Tohru Nishimuranisimura@netbsd.org luna68k
NONAKA Kimihirononaka@netbsd.org prep
Scott Reynoldsscottr@netbsd.org mac68k
Kazuki Sakamotosakamoto@netbsd.org bebox
Noriyuki Sodasoda@netbsd.org arc
Wolfgang Solfrankws@netbsd.org ofppc
Ignatios Souvatzisis@netbsd.org amiga
Jonathan Stonejonathan@netbsd.org pmax
Shin Takemuratakemura@netbsd.org hpcmips
Jason Thorpethorpej@netbsd.org alpha
Jason Thorpethorpej@netbsd.org hp300
Tsubai Masanaritsubai@netbsd.org macppc
Tsubai Masanaritsubai@netbsd.org newsmips
Izumi Tsutsuitsutsui@netbsd.org news68k
Frank van der Lindenfvdl@netbsd.org i386
Leo Weppelmanleo@netbsd.org atari
Nathan Williamsnathanw@netbsd.org sun3
Steve Woodfordscw@netbsd.org mvme68k

The NetBSD 1.5.3 Release Engineering team:
Chris G. Demetrioucgd@netbsd.org
Håvard Eidneshe@netbsd.org
Ted Lemonmellon@netbsd.org
Perry Metzgerperry@netbsd.org
Curt Sampsoncjs@netbsd.org
Jason Thorpethorpej@netbsd.org
Todd Vierlingtv@netbsd.org

Developers and other contributors:
Nathan Ahlstromnra@NetBSD.org
Steve Allenwormey@netbsd.org
Julian Assangeproff@netbsd.org
Lennart Augustssonaugustss@netbsd.org
Christoph Badurabad@netbsd.org
Bang Jun-Youngjunyoung@netbsd.org
Dieter Barondillo@netbsd.org
Robert V. Baronrvb@netbsd.org
Jason Beeganjtb@netbsd.org
Erik Berlscyber@netbsd.org
John Birrelljb@netbsd.org
Mason Loring Blissmason@netbsd.org
Rafal Bonirafal@netbsd.org
Manuel Bouyerbouyer@netbsd.org
John Brezakbrezak@netbsd.org
Allen Briggsbriggs@netbsd.org
Aaron Brownabrown@netbsd.org
Andrew Brownatatat@netbsd.org
David Brownleeabs@netbsd.org
Frederick Bruckmanfredb@netbsd.org
Jon Bullerjonb@netbsd.org
Dave Burgessburgess@cynjut.infonet.net
Robert Byrnesbyrnes@netbsd.org
D'Arcy J.M. Caindarcy@netbsd.org
Dave Carrelcarrel@netbsd.org
James Chaconjmc@netbsd.org
Bill Coldwellbillc@netbsd.org
Julian Colemanjdc@netbsd.org
Chuck Cranorchuck@netbsd.org
Alistair Crooksagc@netbsd.org
Aidan Cullyaidan@netbsd.org
Johan Danielssonjoda@netbsd.org
Matt DeBergalisdeberg@netbsd.org
Rob Dekerdeker@netbsd.org
Chris G. Demetrioucgd@netbsd.org
Tracy Di Marco Whitegendalia@netbsd.org
Jaromír Dolecekjdolecek@netbsd.org
Andy Doranad@netbsd.org
Roland Dowdeswellelric@netbsd.org
Emmanuel Dreyfusmanu@netbsd.org
Matthias Drochnerdrochner@netbsd.org
Jun Ebiharajun@netbsd.org
Håvard Eidneshe@netbsd.org
Stoned Elipotseb@netbsd.org
Enami Tsugutomoenami@netbsd.org
Bernd Ernestiveego@netbsd.org
Erik Fairfair@netbsd.org
Hubert Feyrerhubertf@netbsd.org
Jason R. Finkjrf@netbsd.org
Thorsten Frueauffrueauf@netbsd.org
Castor Fucastor@netbsd.org
Ichiro Fukuharaichiro@netbsd.org
Brian R. Gaekebrg@dgate.org
Thomas Gernerthomas@netbsd.org
Simon J. Gerratysjg@netbsd.org
Justin Gibbsgibbs@netbsd.org
Adam Glassglass@netbsd.org
Michael Graffexplorer@netbsd.org
Brad Granthamgrantham@tenon.com
Brian C. Graysonbgrayson@netbsd.org
Matthew Greenmrg@netbsd.org
Juergen Hannken-Illjeshannken@netbsd.org
Charles M. Hannummycroft@netbsd.org
Eric Haszlakiewiczerh@netbsd.org
John Hawkinsonjhawk@netbsd.org
HAYAKAWA Koichihaya@netbsd.org
René Hexelrh@netbsd.org
Michael L. Hitchmhitch@netbsd.org
Christian E. Hoppschopps@netbsd.org
Ken Hornsteinkenh@netbsd.org
Marc Horowitzmarc@netbsd.org
Nick Hudsonskrll@netbsd.org
Martin Husemannmartin@netbsd.org
Dean Huxleydean@netbsd.org
Bernardo Innocentibernie@netbsd.org
Tetsuya Isakiisaki@netbsd.org
ITOH Yasufumiitohy@netbsd.org
IWAMOTO Toshihirotoshii@netbsd.org
Matthew Jacobmjacob@netbsd.org
Lonhyn T. Jasinskyjlonhyn@netbsd.org
Chris Jonescjones@netbsd.org
Takahiro Kambetaca@netbsd.org
Antti Kanteepooka@netbsd.org
Masanori Kanaokakanaoka@netbsd.org
KAWAMOTO Yosihisakawamoto@netbsd.org
Mario Kempermagick@netbsd.org
Lawrence Kestelootkesteloo@cs.unc.edu
Thomas Klausnerwiz@netbsd.org
Klaus Kleinkleink@netbsd.org
Wayne Knowleswdk@netbsd.org
John Kohljtk@netbsd.org
Martti Kuparinenmartti@netbsd.org
Kevin Laheykml@netbsd.org
Johnny C. Lamjlam@netbsd.org
Martin J. Laubachmjl@netbsd.org
Ted Lemonmellon@netbsd.org
Joel Lindholmjoel@netbsd.org
Mike Longmikel@netbsd.org
Warner Loshimp@netbsd.org
Tomasz Luchowskizuntum@netbsd.org
Federico Lupifederico@netbsd.org
Brett Lymnblymn@netbsd.org
Paul Mackerraspaulus@netbsd.org
MAEKAWA Masahidegehenna@netbsd.org
David Maxwelldavid@netbsd.org
Dan McMahilldmcmahill@netbsd.org
Gregory McGarrygmcgarry@netbsd.org
Jared D. McNeilljmcneill@netbsd.org
Neil J. McRaeneil@netbsd.org
Perry Metzgerperry@netbsd.org
der Mousemouse@netbsd.org
Joseph Myersjsm@netbsd.org
Ken Nakatakenn@netbsd.org
Bob Nestorrnestor@netbsd.org
NISHIMURA Takeshinsmrtks@netbsd.org
NONAKA Kimihirononaka@netbsd.org
Jesse Offjoff@netbsd.org
Tatoku Ogaitotacha@netbsd.org
Masaru Okioki@netbsd.org
Atsushi Onoeonoe@netbsd.org
Greg Osteroster@netbsd.org
Herb Peyerlhpeyerl@netbsd.org
Matthias Pfallermatthias@netbsd.org
Chris Pinnockcjep@netbsd.org
Dante Profetadante@netbsd.org
Chris Provenzanoproven@netbsd.org
Michael Rauchmrauch@netbsd.org
Waldi Ravenswaldi@moacs.indiv.nl.net
Darren Reeddarrenr@netbsd.org
Michael Richardsonmcr@netbsd.org
Tim Rightnourgarbled@netbsd.org
Gordon Rossgwr@netbsd.org
Heiko W. Rupphwr@netbsd.org
SAITOH Masanobumsaitoh@netbsd.org
Curt Sampsoncjs@netbsd.org
Wilfredo Sanchezwsanchez@netbsd.org
Ty Sarnatsarna@netbsd.org
SATO Kazumisato@netbsd.org
Matthias Schelertron@netbsd.org
Karl Schilke (rAT)rat@netbsd.org
Konrad Schroderperseant@netbsd.org
Reed Shadgettdent@netbsd.org
Tim Shepardshep@netbsd.org
Takao Shinoharashin@netbsd.org
Takuya SHIOZAKItshiozak@netbsd.org
Chuck Silverschs@netbsd.org
Thor Lancelot Simontls@netbsd.org
Jeff Smithjeffs@netbsd.org
SOMEYA Yoshihikosomeya@netbsd.org
Bill Sommerfeldsommerfeld@netbsd.org
Bill Squiergroo@netbsd.org
Bill Studenmundwrstuden@netbsd.org
Kevin Sullivansullivan@netbsd.org
SUNAGAWA Keikikei@netbsd.org
Kimmo Suominenkim@netbsd.org
TAMURA Kentkent@netbsd.org
Shin'ichiro TAYAtaya@netbsd.org
Matt Thomasmatt@netbsd.org
Christoph Toshoktoshok@netbsd.org
UCHIYAMA Yasushiuch@netbsd.org
Shuichiro URATAur@netbsd.org
Todd Vierlingtv@netbsd.org
Aymeric Vincentaymeric@netbsd.org
Paul Vixievixie@netbsd.org
Krister Walfridssonkristerw@netbsd.org
Lex Wennmacherwennmach@netbsd.org
Assar Westerlundassar@netbsd.org
Todd Whiteseltoddpw@netbsd.org
Rob Windsorwindsor@netbsd.org
Dan Winshipdanw@netbsd.org
Jim Wisejwise@netbsd.org
Michael Wolfsonmbw@netbsd.org
Colin Woodender@netbsd.org
YAMAMOTO Takashiyamt@netbsd.org
Yuji Yamanoyyamano@netbsd.org
Reinoud Zandijkreinoud@netbsd.org

Legal Mumbo-Jumbo

All product names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

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 NetBSD Foundation, Inc. This product includes software developed by the NetBSD Foundation, Inc. and its contributors. This product includes software developed by the Computer Systems Engineering Group at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. This product includes software developed by Adam Glass and Charles Hannum. This product includes software developed by Adam Glass and Charles M. Hannum. This product includes software developed by Adam Glass. This product includes software developed by Alistair G. Crooks. This product includes software developed by Amancio Hasty and Roger Hardiman. This product includes software developed by Berkeley Software Design, Inc. This product includes software developed by Bill Paul. This product includes software developed by Charles D. Cranor and Washington University. 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The End

Contributions

The following people have made contributions of various sorts specifically for the Macintosh port (in alphabetical order):

  • All of the users who have supplied us with good bug reports and moral support.

  • The Alice Group (Allen K. Briggs, Chris P. Caputo, Michael L. Finch, Bradley A. Grantham, and Lawrence A. Kesteloot), without whom there would be no NetBSD port for the Macintosh.

  • Steven R. Allen for keeping our snapshot distributions up-to-date.

  • Stephen C. Brown for maintaining the Installer application.

  • Denton Gentry and Yanagisawa Takeshi for their work on the SONIC Ethernet driver.

  • Paul Goyette, Taras Ivanenko, Ken Nakata, and Michael R. Zucca for invaluable work towards supporting color X.

  • Takashi Hamada and John Wittkoski beating the direct ADB hardware driver into submission.

  • David Huang for getting MACE Ethernet and basic DMA working on the AV Macs.

  • Scott Jann for acquiring a IIx and a IIci, used for building and testing release sets.

  • Scott Kaplan for lending his IIci and Kensington Turbo Mouse for IIci/IIsi banked memory and internal video as well as non-Apple ADB devices.

  • Noah M. Kieserman for lending a PowerBook 520C for tracking down several bugs on that platform.

  • Markus Krummenacker for monetary donations.

  • Glan Lalonde for an invaluable IIci page table dump.

  • Bob Nestor for (unofficially) maintaining the Mkfs utility, and providing a lot of useful information about the ROM vectors used by different systems.

  • Brad Parker for serial and Ethernet drivers/improvements.

  • Brian R. Gaeke and Nigel Pearson for tweaking and polishing the Booter application.

  • Scott Redman for lending Brad Grantham a PowerBook 160.

  • Craig Ruff for assembling an '030 pmove ttx instruction.

  • Brad Salai for lending an Ethernet card to help resolve interrupt conflicts.

  • Larry Samuels for monetary donations.

  • Peter Siebold for lending his IIvx in support of ADB and IIvx internal video.

  • Glen Stewart for lending a Carrera040 accelerator which, while still unsupported, helped to track down memory management bugs for '030-based machines.

  • Bill Studenmund for providing a stable front end to the machine- independent serial driver.

  • Schuyler Stultz for the loan of his Macintosh II when we desperately needed another machine on which to compile and test during the '93 Xmas vacation.

  • Tenon Intersystems for monetary donations, MachTen, and Brad's access to several machines and documentation after hours.

  • Virginia Tech English Department for loan of a IIci w/ NuBus video and 32 MB of RAM - the first IIci to run NetBSD/mac68k.

  • Colin Wood for maintaining a host of NetBSD/mac68k documentation, including the FAQ, Meta-FAQ, and OS Info documents.