FreeBSD 2.0.5 - July 1995 (R2)

1995 · operating-system · utility · development · Walnut Creek CDROM

Originally posted to alt.binaries.old.nl by MeiMei. Disc 1 ----------------------------------------- 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 critical gap during the period between 2.0R (which was released in Nov 94) and 2.1R, which will be 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 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, from editors to programming languages to graphical applications, make FreeBSD a powerful and comprehensive operating environment 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! 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 Disc 2 This is a fully unpacked "live filesystem" image of all FreeBSD 2.0.5 sources and binaries, the full XFree86 distribution (both sources and binaries) and all "packages" in their unextracted form. It may be mounted and used directly to save space on your hard disk, the ``lndir'' utility (in /usr/X11R6/bin) also possibly proving useful for creating "link trees" to the CDROM (see the installation notes for a working example). NOTE: Due to lack of space, we were unable to provide the XFree86 sources in unpacked form, sorry! They're still available in packed form on the first CD.