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- -----------------------------------------
- FreeBSD 2.0.5 --- RELEASE Version , ,
- ----------------------------------------- /( )`
- \ \___ / |
-Welcome to the 2.0.5 release of FreeBSD! 2.0.5 is /- _ `-/ '
-an interim release of FreeBSD, filling a much needed (/\/ \ \ /\
-gap during the period between 2.0R (which was / / | ` \
-released in Nov 94) and 2.1R, which will be O O ) / |
-released in late July of '95. FreeBSD 2.0.5 `-^--'`< '
-contains many substantial improvements from 2.0R, (_.) _ ) /
-not least of which is greater stability (by `.___/` /
-a considerable margin), dozens of new `-----' /
-features and a greatly enhanced <----. __ / __ \
-installation program. See the release <----|====O)))==) \) /====
-notes for more details on what's new in <----' `--' `.__,' \
-FreeBSD 2.0.5! | |
- \ / /\
- ______( (_ / \______/
- ,' ,-----' |
- `--{__________)
-
-
-What is FreeBSD? FreeBSD is an operating system based on 4.4 BSD Lite
-for Intel, AMD, Cyrix or NexGen "x86" based PC hardware. It works
-with a very wide variety of PC peripherals and configurations and can
-be used for everything from software development to Internet Service
-Provision; the busiest site on the Internet, ftp.cdrom.com, is a
-FreeBSD machine!
-
-This release of FreeBSD contains everything you need to run such a
-system, plus full source code for everything. With the source
-distribution installed you can literally recompile the entire system
-from scratch with one command, making it ideal for students,
-researchers or folks who simply want to see how it all works.
-
-A large collection of 3rd party ported software (the "ports
-collection") is also provided to make it easier for you to obtain and
-install all your favorite traditional UNIX utilities for FreeBSD.
-Over 270 ports, comprising everything from the EMACS editor to the
-lisp language, make FreeBSD a powerful and comprehensive operating
-system that rivals that of many large workstations for general utility
-and power.
-
-
-For more documentation on this system, it is recommended that you
-purchase the 4.4BSD Document Set from O'Reilly Associates and the
-USENIX Association, ISBN 1-56592-082-1. We have no connection with
-O'Reilly, we're just satisfied customers!
-
-You may also wish to read the HARDWARE GUIDE *before* proceeding any
-further with the installation. Configuring PC hardware for anything
-other than DOS/Windows (which don't actually make very significant
-demands on the hardware) is actually quite a bit harder than it looks,
-and if you think you understand PCs then you clearly haven't been
-using them for long enough! :) This guide will give you some tips on
-how to configure your hardware and what symptoms to watch for in case
-of trouble. This guide is available in the Documentation menu of the
-FreeBSD boot floppy.
-
-DISCLAIMER: While FreeBSD does its best to safeguard against accidental
-loss of data, it's still more than possible to WIPE OUT YOUR ENTIRE DISK
-with this installation! Please do not proceed to the final FreeBSD
-installation menu unless you've adequately backed up any important
-data first! We really mean it!
-
-Technical comments on this release should be sent to:
-
- hackers@FreeBSD.org
-
-
-Bug reports should be sent using the `send-pr' command, if you were
-able to get the system installed, otherwise to:
-
- bugs@FreeBSD.org
-
-Please be sure to indicate WHICH VERSION of FreeBSD you're running in
-any bug reports!
-
-
-General questions should be sent to:
-
- questions@FreeBSD.org
-
-Please have patience if your questions are not answered right away -
-this is an especially busy time for us, and our volunteer resources
-are often strained to the limit! Bug reports submitted with the
-send-pr command are logged and tracked in our bugs database, and
-you'll be kept informed of any changes in status during the life of
-the bug (or feature request).
-
-Our WEB site, http://www.freebsd.org, is also a very good source for
-updated information and provides a number of advanced documentation
-facilities. You may use the BSDI version of Netscape for browsing the
-World Wide Web directly from FreeBSD.
-
-You may also wish to look in /usr/share/FAQ and /usr/share/doc for
-further information on the system.
-
-
-Thanks for reading all of this, and we sincerely hope you enjoy this
-release of FreeBSD!
-
- Jordan Hubbard,
- for The FreeBSD Project
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- RELEASE NOTES
- FreeBSD
- Release 2.0.5
-
-1. Technical overview
----------------------
-
-FreeBSD is a freely available, full source 4.4 BSD Lite based release
-for Intel i386/i486/Pentium (or compatible) based PC's. It is based
-primarily on software from U.C. Berkeley's CSRG group, with some
-enhancements from NetBSD, 386BSD, and the Free Software Foundation.
-
-Since our release of FreeBSD 2.0 some 8 months ago, the performance,
-feature set, and stability of FreeBSD has improved dramatically. The
-largest change is a revamped VM system with a merged VM/file buffer
-cache that not only increases performance, but reduces FreeBSD's
-memory footprint, making a 4MB configuration a more acceptible
-minimum. Other enhancements include full NIS client and server
-support, transaction TCP support, dial-on-demand PPP, an improved SCSI
-subsystem, early ISDN support, support for FDDI and Fast Ethernet
-(100Mbit) adapters, improved support for the Adaptec 2940 (WIDE and
-narrow) and many hundreds of bug fixes.
-
-We've also taken the comments and suggestions of many of our users to
-heart and have attempted to provide what we hope is a more sane and
-easily understood installation process. Your feedback on this
-(constantly evolving) process is especially welcome!
-
-In addition to the base distributions, FreeBSD offers a new ported
-software collection with some 270 commonly sought-after programs. The
-list of ports ranges from http (WWW) servers, to games, languages,
-editors and almost everything in between. The entire ports collection
-requires only 10MB of storage, all ports being expressed as "deltas"
-to their original sources. This makes it much easier for us to update
-ports, and greatly reduces the disk space demands made by the older
-1.0 ports collection. To compile a port, you simply change to the
-directory of the program you wish to install, type make and let the
-system do the rest. The full original distribution for each port you
-build is retrieved dynamically off of CDROM or a local ftp site, so
-you need only enough disk space to build the ports you want. Each
-port is also provided as a pre-compiled "package" which can be
-installed with a simple command (pkg_add) by those who do not wish to
-compile their own ports from source. See the file:
- /usr/share/FAQ/Text/ports.FAQ
-for a more complete description of the ports collection.
-
-
-Since our first release of FreeBSD 1.0 nearly two years ago, FreeBSD
-has changed almost entirely. A new port from the Berkeley 4.4 code
-base was done, which brought the legal status of the system out of the
-shadows with the blessing of Novell (the new owners of USL and UNIX). The
-port to 4.4 has also brought in a host of new features, filesystems
-and enhanced driver support. With our new unencumbered code base, we
-have every reason to hope that we'll be able to release quality
-operating systems without further legal encumbrance for some time to
-come!
-
-FreeBSD 2.0.5 represents the culmination of 2 years of work and many
-thousands of man hours put in by an international development team.
-We hope you enjoy it!
-
-For a list of contributors and a general project description, please see
-the file "CONTRIB.FreeBSD" which should be bundled with your binary
-distribution.
-
-Also see the "REGISTER.FreeBSD" file for information on registering
-with the "Free BSD user counter". This counter is for ALL freely
-available variants of BSD, not just FreeBSD, and we urge you to register
-yourself with it.
-
-The core of FreeBSD does not contain DES code which would inhibit its
-being exported outside the United States. There is an add-on package
-to the core distribution, for use only in the United States, that
-contains the programs that normally use DES. The auxiliary packages
-provided separately can be used by anyone. A freely (from outside the
-U.S.) exportable European distribution of DES for our non-U.S. users also
-exists and is described in the FreeBSD FAQ.
-
-If password security for FreeBSD is all you need, and you have no
-requirement for copying encrypted passwords from different hosts
-(Suns, DEC machines, etc) into FreeBSD password entries, then
-FreeBSD's MD5 based security may be all you require! We feel that our
-default security model is more than a match for DES, and without any
-messy export issues to deal with. If you're outside (or even inside)
-the U.S., give it a try!
-
-
-1.1 What's new in 2.0.5?
-----------------------
-
-The following features were added or substantially improved between
-the release of 2.0 and this 2.0.5 release. In order to facilitate
-better communication, the person, or persons, responsible for each
-enhancement is noted. Any questions regarding the new functionality
-should be directed to them first.
-
-KERNEL:
-
-Merged VM-File Buffer Cache
----------------------------
-A merged VM/buffer cache design greatly enhances overall system
-performance and makes it possible to do a number of more optimal
-memory allocation strategies that were not possible before.
-
-Owner: David Greenman (davidg@FreeBSD.org) and
- John Dyson (dyson@implode.root.com)
-
-
-Network PCB hash optimization
------------------------------
-For systems with a great number of active TCP connections (WEB and ftp
-servers, for example), this greatly speeds up the lookup time required
-to match an incoming packet up to its associated connection.
-
-Owner: David Greenman (davidg@FreeBSD.org)
-
-
-Name cache optimization
------------------------
-The name-cache would cache all files of the same name to the same bucket,
-which would put for instance all ".." entries in the same bucket. We added
-the parent directory version to frustrate the hash, and improved the
-management of the cache in various other ways while we were at it.
-
-Owner: Poul-Henning Kamp (phk@FreeBSD.org)
- David GreenMan (davidg@FreeBSD.org)
-
-
-Less restrictive swap-spaces
-----------------------------
-The need to compile the names of the swap devices into the kernel has been
-removed. Now swapon will accept any block devices, up to the maximum
-number of swap devices configured in the kernel.
-
-Owner: Poul-Henning Kamp (phk@FreeBSD.org)
- David GreenMan (davidg@FreeBSD.org)
-
-
-Hard Wired SCSI Devices
------------------------
-Prior to 2.0.5, FreeBSD performed dynamic assignment of unit numbers
-to SCSI devices as they were probed, allowing a SCSI device failure to
-possibly change unit number assignment and prevent filesystems on
-still functioning disks from mounting. Hard wiring allows static
-allocation of unit numbers (and hence device names) to scsi devices
-based on SCSI ID and bus. SCSI configuration occurs in the kernel
-config file. Samples of the configuration syntax can be found in the
-scsi(4) man page or the LINT kernel config file.
-
-Owner: Peter Dufault (dufault@hda.com)
-Sources involved: sys/scsi/* usr.sbin/config/*
-
-
-Slice Support
--------------
-FreeBSD now supports a "slice" abstraction which makes it more
-completely interoperable with other operating system partitions. This
-support will allow FreeBSD to inhabit DOS extended partitions.
-
-Owner: Bruce Evans (bde@FreeBSD.org)
-Sources involved: sys/disklabel.h sys/diskslice.h sys/dkbad.h
- kern/subr_diskslice.c kern/subr_dkbad.c
- i386/isa/diskslice_machdep.c
- i386/isa/wd.c scsi/sd.c dev/vn/vn.c
-
-
-Support for Ontrack Disk Manager Version 6.0
---------------------------------------------
-Support has been added for disks which use Ontrack Disk Manager. The
-fdisk program does NOT know about it however, so make all changes
-using the install program on the boot.flp or the Ontrack Disk Manager
-tool under DOS.
-
-Owner: Poul-Henning Kamp (phk@FreeBSD.org)
-
-
-Bad144 is back and working
---------------------------
-Bad144 works again, though the semantics are slightly different than
-before in that the bad-spots are kept relative to the slice rather
-than absolute on the disk.
-
-Owner: Bruce Evans (bde@FreeBSD.org)
- Poul-Henning Kamp (phk@FreeBSD.org)
-
-
-NEW DEVICE SUPPORT:
-
- SCSI and CDROM Devices
-
-Matsushita/Panasonic (Creative) CD-ROM driver
----------------------------------------------
-The Matsushita/Panasonic CR-562 and CR-563 drives are now supported
-when connected to a Sound Blaster or 100% compatible host adapter. Up
-to four host adapters are supported for a total of 16 CD-ROM drives.
-The audio functions are supported with the Karoke variable speed
-playback.
-
-Owner: Frank Durda IV bsdmail@nemesis.lonestar.org
-Sources involved: isa/matcd
-
-
-Adaptec 2742/2842/2940 SCSI driver
------------------------------
-The original 274x/284x driver has evolved considerably since the 2.0
-release. We now offer full support for the 2940 series as well as the
-Wide models of these cards. The arbitration bug (as well as many
-others) that caused the driver problems with fast devices has been
-corrected and there is even experimental tagged queuing support
-(kernel option "AHC_TAGENABLE"). John Aycock has also released the
-sequencer code under a "Berkeley style" copyright making the driver
-entirely clean of the GPL.
-
-Owner: Justin Gibbs (gibbs@FreeBSD.org)
-Sources involved: isa/aic7770.c pci/aic7870.c i386/scsi/*
- sys/dev/aic7xxx/*
-
-
-NCR5380/NCR53400 SCSI ("ProAudio Spectrum") driver
---------------------------------------------------
-Owner: core
-Submitted by: Serge Vakulenko (vak@cronyx.ru)
-Sources involved: isa/ncr5380.c
-
-
-Sony CDROM driver
------------------
-Owner: core
-Submitted by: Mikael Hybsch (micke@dynas.se)
-Sources involved: isa/scd.c
-
-
- Serial Devices
-
-SDL Communications Riscom/8 Serial Board Driver
------------------------------------------------
-Owner: Andrey Chernov (ache@FreeBSD.org)
-Sources involved: isa/rc.c isa/rcreg.h
-
-
-Cyclades Cyclom-y Serial Board Driver
--------------------------------------
-Owner: Bruce Evans (bde@FreeBSD.org)
-Submitted by: Andrew Werple (andrew@werple.apana.org.au) and
- Heikki Suonsivu (hsu@cs.hut.fi)
-Obtained from: NetBSD
-Sources involved: isa/cy.c
-
-
-Cronyx/Sigma sync/async serial driver
--------------------------------------
-Owner: core
-Submitted by: Serge Vakulenko
-Sources involved: isa/cronyx.c
-
-
-
- Networking
-
-Diskless booting
-----------------
-Diskless booting in 2.0.5 is much improved. The boot-program is in
-src/sys/i386/boot/netboot, and can be run from an MSDOS system or
-burned into an EPROM. Local swapping is also possible. WD, SMC, 3COM
-and Novell ethernet cards are currently supported.
-
-
-DEC DC21140 Fast Ethernet driver
---------------------------------
-This driver supports any of the numerous NICs using the DC21140 chipset
-including the 100Mb DEC DE-500-XA and SMC 9332.
-
-Owner: core
-Submitted by: Matt Thomas (thomas@lkg.dec.com)
-Sources involved: pci/if_de.c pci/dc21040.h
-
-
-DEC FDDI (DEFPA/DEFEA) driver
------------------------------
-Owner: core
-Submitted by: Matt Thomas (thomas@lkg.dec.com)
-Sources involved: pci/if_pdq.c pci/pdq.c pci/pdq_os.h pci/pdqreg.h
-
-
-3Com 3c505 (Etherlink/+) NIC driver
------------------------------------
-Owner: core
-Submitted by: Dean Huxley (dean@fsa.ca)
-Obtained from: NetBSD
-Sources involved: isa/if_eg.c
-
-
-Fujitsu MB86960A family of NICs driver
--------------------------------------
-Owner: core
-Submitted by: M.S. (seki@sysrap.cs.fujitsu.co.jp)
-Sources involved: isa/if_fe.c
-
-
-Intel EtherExpress driver
--------------------------
-Owner: Rodney W. Grimes (rgrimes@FreeBSD.org)
-Sources involved: isa/if_ix.c isa/if_ixreg.h
-
-
-3Com 3c589 driver
------------------
-Owner: core
-Submitted by: "HOSOKAWA Tatsumi" (hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp),
- Seiji Murata (seiji@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp) and
- Noriyuki Takahashi (hor@aecl.ntt.jp)
-Sources involved: isa/if_zp.c
-
-
-IBM Credit Card Adapter driver
-------------------------------
-Owner: core
-Submitted by: "HOSOKAWA Tatsumi" (hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp),
-Sources involved: isa/pcic.c isa/pcic.h
-
-
-EDSS1 and 1TR6 ISDN interface driver
-------------------------------------
-Owner: core
-Submitted by: Dietmar Friede (dfriede@drnhh.neuhaus.de) and
- Juergen Krause (jkr@saarlink.de)
-Sources involved: gnu/isdn/*
-
-
- Miscellaneous Drivers
-
-Joystick driver
----------------
-Owner: Jean-Marc Zucconi (jmz@FreeBSD.org)
-Sources involved: isa/joy.c
-
-
-National Instruments "LabPC" driver
------------------------------------
-Owner: Peter Dufault (dufault@hda.com)
-Sources involved: isa/labpc.c
-
-
-WD7000 driver
--------------
-Owner: Olof Johansson (offe@ludd.luth.se)
-
-
-Pcvt Console driver
--------------------
-Owner: Joerg Wunsch (joerg@FreeBSD.org)
-Submitted by: Hellmuth Michaelis (hm@altona.hamburg.com)
-Sources involved: isa/pcvt/*
-
-
-BSD-audio emulator for VAT driver
----------------------------------
-Owner: Amancio Hasty (ahasty@FreeBSD.org) and
- Paul Traina (pst@FreeBSD.org)
-Sources involved: isa/sound/vat_audio.c isa/sound/vat_audioio.h
-
-
-National Instruments AT-GPIB and AT-GPIB/TNT GPIB driver
---------------------------------------------------------
-Owner: core
-Submitted by: Fred Cawthorne (fcawth@delphi.umd.edu)
-Sources involved: isa/gpib.c isa/gpib.h isa/gpibreg.h
-
-
-Genius GS-4500 hand scanner driver
-----------------------------------
-Owner: core
-Submitted by: Gunther Schadow (gusw@fub46.zedat.fu-berlin.de)
-Sources involved: isa/gsc.c isa/gscreg.h
-
-
-CORTEX-I Frame Grabber
-----------------------
-Owner: core
-Submitted by: Paul S. LaFollette, Jr. (
-Sources involved: isa/ctx.c isa/ctxreg.h
-
-
-Video Spigot video capture card
--------------------------------
-Owner: Jim Lowe
-
-
-
-1.2 Experimental features
----------------------------------------------
-
-The unionfs and LFS file systems are known to be severely broken in
-2.0.5. This is in part due to old bugs that we haven't had time to
-resolve yet and the need to update these file systems to deal with the
-new VM system. We hope to address these issues in a later release of
-FreeBSD.
-
-FreeBSD now supports running iBCS2 compatible binaries (currently SCO
-UNIX 3.2.2 & 3.2.4 and ISC 2.2 COFF format are supported). The iBCS2
-emulator is in its early stages, but it is functional, we haven't been
-able to do exhaustive testing (lack of commercial apps), but almost
-all of SCO's 3.2.2 binaries are working, so is an old INFORMIX-2.10
-for SCO. Further testing is nessesary to complete this project. There
-is also work under way for ELF & XOUT loaders, and most of the svr4
-syscall wrappers have been written.
-
-Owner: Soren Schmidt (sos) & Sean Eric Fagan (sef)
-Sources involved: sys/i386/ibcs2/* + misc kernel changes.
-=======
-
-
-2. Supported Configurations
----------------------------
-
-FreeBSD currently runs on a wide variety of ISA, VLB, EISA and PCI bus
-based PC's, ranging from 386sx to Pentium class machines (though the
-386sx is not recommended). Support for generic IDE or ESDI drive
-configurations, various SCSI controller, network and serial cards is
-also provided.
-
-Following is a list of all disk controllers and ethernet cards currently
-known to work with FreeBSD. Other configurations may very well work, and
-we have simply not received any indication of this.
-
-
-2.1. Disk Controllers
-
-WD1003 (any generic MFM/RLL)
-WD1007 (any generic IDE/ESDI)
-WD7000
-IDE
-ATA
-
-Adaptec 152x series ISA SCSI controllers
-Adaptec 154x series ISA SCSI controllers
-Adaptec 174x series EISA SCSI controller in standard and enhanced mode.
-Adaptec 274X/284X/2940 (Narrow/Wide/Twin) series ISA/EISA/PCI SCSI controllers
-Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 based boards, which includes
-the AHA-152x and SoundBlaster SCSI cards.
-
-** Note: You cannot boot from the SoundBlaster cards
-as they have no on-board BIOS, which is necessary for mapping
-the boot device into the system BIOS I/O vectors.
-They're perfectly usable for external tapes, CDROMs, etc,
-however. The same goes for any other AIC-6x60 based card
-without a boot ROM. Some systems DO have a boot ROM, which
-is generally indicated by some sort of message when the system
-is first powered up or reset. Check your system/board documentation
-for more details.
-
-[Note that Buslogic was formerly known as "Bustec"]
-Buslogic 545S & 545c
-Buslogic 445S/445c VLB SCSI controller
-Buslogic 742A, 747S, 747c EISA SCSI controller.
-Buslogic 946c PCI SCSI controller
-Buslogic 956c PCI SCSI controller
-
-NCR 53C810 and 53C825 PCI SCSI controller.
-NCR5380/NCR53400 ("ProAudio Spectrum") SCSI controller.
-
-DTC 3290 EISA SCSI controller in 1542 emulation mode.
-
-UltraStor 14F, 24F and 34F SCSI controllers.
-
-Seagate ST01/02 SCSI controllers.
-
-Future Domain 8xx/950 series SCSI controllers.
-
-With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is provided for
-SCSI-I & SCSI-II peripherals, including Disks, tape drives (including
-DAT) and CD ROM drives.
-The following CD-ROM type systems are supported at this time:
-(cd) SCSI (also includes ProAudio Spectrum and SoundBlaster SCSI)
-(mcd) Mitsumi proprietary interface
-(matcd) Matsushita/Panasonic (Creative) proprietary interface
-(scd) Sony proprietary interface
-
-Note: CD-Drives with IDE interfaces are not supported at this time.
-
-Some controllers have limitations with the way they deal with >16MB of
-memory, due to the fact that the ISA bus only has a DMA address space
-of 24 bits. If you do your arithmetic, you'll see that this makes it
-impossible to do direct DMA to any address >16MB. This limitation is
-even true of some EISA controllers (which are normally 32 bit) when
-they're configured to emulate an ISA card, which they then do in *all*
-respects. This problem is avoided entirely by IDE controllers (which
-do not use DMA), true EISA controllers (like the UltraStor, Adaptec
-1742A or Adaptec 2742) and most VLB (local bus) controllers. In the
-cases where it's necessary, the system will use "bounce buffers" to
-talk to the controller so that you can still use more than 16Mb of
-memory without difficulty.
-
-
-2.2. Ethernet cards
-
-SMC Elite 16 WD8013 ethernet interface, and most other WD8003E,
-WD8003EBT, WD8003W, WD8013W, WD8003S, WD8003SBT and WD8013EBT
-based clones. SMC Elite Ultra is also supported.
-
-DEC EtherWORKS III NICs (DE203, DE204, and DE205)
-DEC EtherWORKS II NICs (DE200, DE201, DE202, and DE422)
-DEC DC21140 based NICs (SMC???? DE???)
-DEC FDDI (DEFPA/DEFEA) NICs
-
-Fujitsu MB86960A family of NICs
-
-Intel EtherExpress
-
-Isolan AT 4141-0 (16 bit)
-Isolink 4110 (8 bit)
-
-Novell NE1000, NE2000, and NE2100 ethernet interface.
-
-3Com 3C501 cards
-
-3Com 3C503 Etherlink II
-
-3Com 3c505 Etherlink/+
-
-3Com 3C507 Etherlink 16/TP
-
-3Com 3C509, 3C579, 3C589 (PCMCIA) Etherlink III
-
-Toshiba ethernet cards
-
-PCMCIA ethernet cards from IBM and National Semiconductor are also
-supported.
-
-
-2.3. Misc
-
-AST 4 port serial card using shared IRQ.
-
-ARNET 8 port serial card using shared IRQ.
-
-BOCA ATIO66 6 port serial card using shared IRQ.
-
-Cyclades Cyclom-y Serial Board.
-
-STB 4 port card using shared IRQ.
-
-Mitsumi (all models) CDROM interface and drive.
-
-SDL Communications Riscom/8 Serial Board.
-
-Soundblaster SCSI and ProAudio Spectrum SCSI CDROM interface and drive.
-
-Matsushita/Panasonic (Creative SoundBlaster) CDROM interface and drive.
-
-Adlib, SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster Pro, ProAudioSpectrum, Gravis UltraSound
-and Roland MPU-401 sound cards.
-
-FreeBSD currently does NOT support IBM's microchannel (MCA) bus, but
-support is apparently close to materializing. Details will be posted
-as the situation develops.
-
-
-3. Obtaining FreeBSD.
----------------------
-
-You may obtain FreeBSD in a variety of ways:
-
-1. FTP/Mail
-
-You can ftp FreeBSD and any or all of its optional packages from
-`ftp.freebsd.org' - the offical FreeBSD release site.
-
-For other locations that mirror the FreeBSD software see the file
-MIRROR.SITES. Please ftp the distribution from the nearest site
-to you netwise.
-
-If you do not have access to the internet and electronic mail is your
-only recourse, then you may still fetch the files by sending mail to
-`ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com' - putting the keyword "help" in your message
-to get more information on how to fetch files from freebsd.cdrom.com.
-Note: This approach will end up sending many *tens of megabytes*
-through the mail, and should only be employed as an absolute LAST
-resort!
-
-
-2. CDROM
-
-FreeBSD 2.0.5 may be ordered on CDROM from:
-
- Walnut Creek CDROM
- 4041 Pike Lane, Suite D
- Concord CA 94520
- 1-800-786-9907, +1-510-674-0783, +1-510-674-0821 (fax)
-
-Or via the internet from orders@cdrom.com or http://www.cdrom.com.
-Their current catalog can be obtained via ftp as:
- ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/cdrom/catalog.
-
-Cost is $39.95. Shipping (per order not per disc) is $5 in the US,
-Canada, or Mexico and $10.00 overseas. They accept Visa, Mastercard,
-American Express, and ship COD within the United States. California
-residents please add 8.25% sales tax.
-
-Should you be dissatisfied for any reason, the CD comes with an
-unconditional return policy.
-
-
-Reporting problems, making suggestions, submitting code.
------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Your suggestions, bug reports and contributions of code are always
-valued - please do not hesitate to report any problems you may find
-(preferably with a fix attached if you can!).
-
-The preferred method to submit bug reports from a machine with
-internet mail connectivity is to use the send-pr command. Bug reports
-will be dutifully filed by our faithful bugfiler program and you can
-be sure that we'll do our best to respond to all reported bugs as soon
-as possible.
-
-If, for some reason, you are unable to use the send-pr command to
-submit a bug report, you can try to send it to:
-
- bugs@FreeBSD.org
-
-
-Otherwise, for any questions or suggestions, please send mail to:
-
- questions@FreeBSD.org
-
-Additionally, being a volunteer effort, we are always happy to have
-extra hands willing to help - there are already far more enhancements
-to be done than we can ever manage to do by ourselves! To contact us
-on technical matters, or with offers of help, you may send mail to:
-
- hackers@FreeBSD.org
-
-Since these mailing lists can experience significant amounts of
-traffic, if you have slow or expensive mail access and you are
-only interested in keeping up with significant FreeBSD events, you may
-find it preferable to subscribe to:
-
- announce@FreeBSD.org
-
-
-All but the freebsd-bugs groups can be freely joined by anyone wishing
-to do so. Send mail to MajorDomo@FreeBSD.org and include the keyword
-`help' on a line by itself somewhere in the body of the message. This
-will give you more information on joining the various lists, accessing
-archives, etc. There are a number of mailing lists targeted at
-special interest groups not mentioned here, so send mail to majordomo
-and ask about them!
-
-
-6. Acknowledgements
--------------------
-
-FreeBSD represents the cumulative work of many dozens, if not
-hundreds, of individuals from around the world who have worked very
-hard to bring you this release. It would be very difficult, if not
-impossible, to enumerate everyone who's contributed to FreeBSD, but
-nonetheless we shall try (in alphabetical order, of course). If your
-name is not mentioned, please be assured that its omission is entirely
-accidental.
-
-
-The Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG), U.C. Berkeley.
-
-Bill Jolitz, for his initial work with 386BSD.
-
-The FreeBSD Core Team
-(in alphabetical order by first name):
-
- Andreas Schulz <ats@FreeBSD.org>
- Andrey A. Chernov <ache@FreeBSD.org>
- Bruce Evans <bde@FreeBSD.org>
- David Greenman <davidg@FreeBSD.org>
- Garrett A. Wollman <wollman@FreeBSD.org>
- Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.org>
- Geoff Rehmet <csgr@FreeBSD.org>
- Jack Vogel <jackv@FreeBSD.org>
- John Dyson <dyson@FreeBSD.org>
- Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
- Justin Gibbs <gibbs@FreeBSD.org>
- Paul Richards <paul@FreeBSD.org>
- Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>
- Rich Murphey <rich@FreeBSD.org>
- Rodney W. Grimes <rgrimes@FreeBSD.org>
- Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.org>
- Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.org>
-
-Special mention to:
-
- Walnut Creek CDROM, without whose help (and continuing support)
- this release would never have been possible.
-
- Dermot McDonnell for his donation of a Toshiba XM3401B CDROM
- drive.
-
- Additional FreeBSD helpers and beta testers:
-
- J.T. Conklin Julian Elischer
- Frank Durda IV Peter Dufault
- Sean Eric Fagan Jeffrey Hsu
- Terry Lambert L Jonas Olsson
- Chris Provenzano Dave Rivers
- Guido van Rooij Steven Wallace
- Atsushi Murai Scott Mace
- Nate Williams
-
- And everyone at Montana State University for their initial support.
-
-
-Jordan would also like to give special mention to Poul-Henning Kamp
-and Gary Palmer, both of whom put in long hours helping him to
-construct the new installation utility. Poul, being a proud new
-father, was especially pressed for time yet somehow managed to put in
-significant amount of effort anyway and this release could not have
-happened without him. Thank you both!
-
-Thanks also to everyone else who helped, especially those not
-mentioned, and we sincerely hope you enjoy this release of FreeBSD!
-
-
- The FreeBSD Core Team
-
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