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2. Go back to using a filesystem on the boot floppy; the rawboot boot blocks
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This file attempts to describe what you are seeing here. Here is a typical
distribution tree:
o About FreeBSD:
HARDWARE.TXT bin dict manpages tools
INSTALL.TXT compat1x des doc packages
README.TXT compat20 floppies ports
RELNOTES.TXT compat21 games proflibs
XF8632 info src
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 *.TXT files obviously contain documentation (README.TXT being a good
start). The XF8632 directory contains the XFree86 project's 3.2 release
and consists of a series of gzip'd tar files which contain each component
This release of FreeBSD contains everything you need to run such a
system, including 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 750 ports, from editors to programming languages to graphical
applications, make FreeBSD a powerful and comprehensive operating
environment that extends far beyond what's provided by many commercial
versions of UNIX.
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!
If you're new to FreeBSD then you should also read EVERYTHING listed
in the Documentation menu on the boot floppy. It may seem like a lot
to read, but you should at least acquaint yourself with the types of
information available should you later get stuck. Once the system is
installed, you can also revisit this menu and use a WEB browser to
read the installed FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) and Handbook HTML
documentation sets for FreeBSD. You can also use the browser to visit
other WEB sites on the net (such as http://www.freebsd.org) if you
have an Internet connection.
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!
o E-mail addresses and tech support info:
For general questions, please send email to :
questions@FreeBSD.org
Please also have patience if your questions are not answered right
away - this mailing list is staffed purely by volunteers and they also
have real life schedules to contend with. Questions which are asked
intelligently (e.g. not "My system doesn't work! What's wrong!?")
also stand a far greater chance of being answered. If your question
does not contain enough information to allow the responder to generate
a meaningful answer, they generally won't.
Bug reports submitted with the send-pr command are also 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).
Technical comments on this release should be sent (in English!) to:
hackers@FreeBSD.org
Bug reports should be sent using the `send-pr' command or the Web page
at http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html. If you cannot use either of
these two methods, you may also send mail to:
bugs@FreeBSD.org
PLEASE ALSO BE SURE TO INDICATE WHICH VERSION OF FREEBSD YOU'RE
RUNNING IN ANY BUG REPORTS OR QUESTIONS!
Sorry for the caps, but you'd be amazed at how many times people
forget this and there are many different release versions of FreeBSD
out there now. It's imperative that we know what you're running so
that we tell if you're suffering from a bug which has already been
fixed.
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 distribution of DES for our non-U.S. users also
exists at ftp://ftp.internat.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD.
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! This snapshot also includes support for
mixed password files - either DES or MD5 passwords will be accepted,
making it easier to transition from one scheme to the other.
o WWW Resources:
Our WEB site, http://www.freebsd.org, is also a very good source for
updated information and provides a number of advanced documentation
searching facilities. If you wish to use Netscape as your browser,
you may install the BSDI version from ftp://ftp.mcom.com or simply
type:
# cd /usr/ports/www/netscape3
# make all install
If you have the Ports collection installed on your machine (usually on
the 2nd CDROM of a CDROM release).
Several other non-commercial browsers are also available in
/usr/ports/net and may be compiled and installed in the same fashion.
Many are also available as pre-compiled packages - see the Packages
entry in the Configuration menu for more details.
The Handbook and FAQ are also available as on-line documents in
/usr/share/doc and can be read using the ``file:/usr/share/doc''
syntax in any HTML capable browser.
o Distributions:
A typical FreeBSD distribution directory looks like this:
ABOUT.TXT bin dict manpages tools
HARDWARE.TXT compat1x des doc packages
INSTALL.TXT compat20 floppies ports
README.TXT compat21 games proflibs
RELNOTES.TXT info src
XF8632
If you want to do a CDROM, FTP or NFS installation from this
distribution directory, all you need to do is make a 1.44Mb floppy
from the floppies/boot.flp image file (see floppies/README.TXT for
instructions on how to do this), boot it and follow the instructions.
If you're trying to do some other type of installation, or are just
curious about how the distribution is organized in general, what
follows is a more thorough description of each item in more detail:
The *.TXT files obviously contain documentation (ABOUT.TXT being what
you're reading now).
The XF8632 directory contains the XFree86 project's 3.2 release and
consists of a series of gzip'd tar files which contain each component
of the XFree86 distribution.
The compat1x, compat20 and compat21 directories contain distributions for
compatibility with older releases and are distributed as gzip'd tar files -
they can be installed during release time or later by running their
`install.sh' scripts.
The bin, dict, des, doc, games, info, manpages, proflibs, and src
directories contain the primary distribution components of FreeBSD
itself and are split into smaller files for easy packing onto floppies
(should that be necessary).
The bin, dict, des, doc, games, info, manpages, proflibs, and src directories
contain the primary distribution components of FreeBSD itself and are split
into smaller files for easy packing onto floppies (should that be necessary).
The compat1x, compat20 and compat21 directories contain distributions
for compatibility with older releases and are distributed as single
gzip'd tar files - they can be installed during release time or later
by running their `install.sh' scripts.
A typical distribution (we'll use the info distribution as an example) looks
like this:
A typical distribution (we'll use the info distribution as an example)
looks like this:
CHECKSUM.MD5 info.ab info.ad info.inf install.sh
info.aa info.ac info.ae info.mtree
The CHECKSUM.MD5 file contains MD5 signatures for each file, should
data corruption be suspected, and is purely for reference - it is not
used by the actual installation and does not need to be copied with the
rest of the distribution files. The info.a* files are split, gzip'd
tar files, the contents of which can be viewed by doing:
used by the actual installation and does not need to be copied with
the rest of the distribution files. The info.a* files are split,
gzip'd tar files, the contents of which can be viewed by doing:
cat info.a* | tar tvzf -
During installation, they are automatically concatenated and extracted by
the installation procedure.
During installation, they are automatically concatenated and extracted
by the installation procedure.
The info.inf file is also necessary since it is read by the installation
program in order to figure out how many pieces to look for when fetching and

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# Upper size for the mfs in the boot.flp kernel.
# These are adjusted down to the minimum needed by doFS.sh.
BOOTMFSSIZE= 1440
MFSINODE= 80000
FIXITINODE= 28000
MFSINODE= 60000
FIXITINODE= 20000
BOOTINODE= 100000
# Things which will get you into trouble if you change them
DISTRIBUTIONS= bin ${EXTRA_DISTS}
@ -377,8 +378,7 @@ release.8: write_mfs_in_kernel dumpnlist
rm -rf ${RD}/mfsfd
mkdir ${RD}/mfsfd
cd ${RD}/mfsfd && \
mkdir -p etc dev mnt stand/help && \
ln -s 'AH<<<<' etc/malloc.conf
mkdir -p etc dev mnt stand/help
@cd ${.CURDIR} && $(MAKE) installCRUNCH CRUNCH=boot \
DIR=${RD}/mfsfd/stand ZIP=false
( cd ${RD}/trees/bin/dev && \
@ -613,14 +613,13 @@ doMFSKERN:
kzip -v ${RD}/boot.${FSIMAGE}/kernel
@mv ${RD}/boot.${FSIMAGE}/kernel ${RD}/kernels/MFSKERNEL.${FSIMAGE}
@mv ${RD}/boot.${FSIMAGE}/kernel.kz ${RD}/boot.${FSIMAGE}/kernel
@ls -l ${RD}/boot.${FSIMAGE}/kernel
@rm -f ${RD}/floppies/boot${FSIMAGE}.flp
cat ${RD}/trees/bin/usr/mdec/rawboot ${RD}/boot.${FSIMAGE}/kernel | \
dd conv=sync of=${RD}/floppies/boot${FSIMAGE}.flp
@echo 'USERCONFIG' > startup_foo
@echo 'intro' >> startup_foo
dd if=startup_foo of=${RD}/floppies/boot${FSIMAGE}.flp \
seek=1 bs=512 count=1 conv=notrunc
@rm -f startup_foo
sh -e ${.CURDIR}/doFS.sh ${RD} ${MNT} ${FDSIZE} ${RD}/boot.${FSIMAGE} \
${BOOTINODE} ${FDLABEL}
#echo 'USERCONFIG' > startup_foo
#echo 'intro' >> startup_foo
#dd if=startup_foo of=fs-image seek=1 bs=512 count=1 conv=notrunc
#rm -f startup_foo
mv fs-image ${RD}/floppies/boot${FSIMAGE}.flp
.include <bsd.prog.mk>

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vnconfig -s labels -c /dev/r${VNDEVICE} fs-image
dd if=${RD}/trees/bin/usr/mdec/boot1 of=fs-image conv=notrunc
disklabel -Brw \
-b ${RD}/trees/bin/usr/mdec/fdboot \
-s ${RD}/trees/bin/usr/mdec/bootfd \
${VNDEVICE} auto
/dev/r${VNDEVICE} minimum
newfs -u 0 -t 0 -i ${FSINODE} -m 0 -T minimum -o space /dev/r${VNDEVICE}c

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vnconfig -s labels -c /dev/r${VNDEVICE} fs-image
dd if=${RD}/trees/bin/usr/mdec/boot1 of=fs-image conv=notrunc
disklabel -Brw \
-b ${RD}/trees/bin/usr/mdec/fdboot \
-s ${RD}/trees/bin/usr/mdec/bootfd \
${VNDEVICE} auto
/dev/r${VNDEVICE} minimum
newfs -u 0 -t 0 -i ${FSINODE} -m 0 -T minimum -o space /dev/r${VNDEVICE}c