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Installing Software on FreeBSD

The command to install a package is pkg. As root, install a package by doing pkg install package where package is the name of the package that you would like to install.

OpenBSD Group Management

The command to perform tasks on a users account is user. As a super user, add a user to a group by doing user mod -G group user where group is the group that you would like to add a user to and user is the user that you would like to add to this group.

O.F. Booting on OpenBSD
  1. Enter Open Firmware by booting the computer while pressing the Option, Command, O, and F keys together.
  2. Set the boot device and kernel setenv boot-device hd:,ofwboot /bsd
  3. Set automatic booting setenv auto-boot? true
  4. Write changes to NVRAM and reboot reset-all
Upgrading OpenBSD to Stable
Prepare The Environment

As root, do these steps.

  1. Add a user to the wsrc group. user mod -G wsrc user where user is the user that you would like to add to the wsrc group.
  2. Change to the user directory cd /usr
  3. Change the group on the source directory to wsrc chgrp wsrc src
  4. Change the mode on the source directory to 0775 chmod 0775 src
  5. Make the ports directory mkdir ports
  6. Change the ports directory group to wsrc chgrp wsrc ports
  7. Change the mode on the ports directory to 0775 chmod 0775 ports
  8. Make the xenocara directory mkdir xenocara
  9. Change the xenocara directory group to wsrc chgrp wsrc xenocara
  10. Change the mode on the xenocara directory to 0775 chmod 0775 xenocara
Download the Source

As the user that was added to the wsrc group (not root), download the base system, xenocara and ports. Where host is the closest host to you e.g. anoncvs4.usa.openbsd.org and the release_number is the version of the OpenBSD that you have installed e.g. 6_8.

  1. Change the directory to usercd /usr
  2. Download a copy of the base system source cvs -q -d anoncvs@host:/cvs checkout -r OPENBSD_release_number -P src
  3. Download a copy of xenocara source cvs -q -d anoncvs@host:/cvs checkout -r OPENBSD_release_number -P xenocara
  4. Download a copy of the ports source cvs -q -d anoncvs@host:/cvs checkout -r OPENBSD_release_number -P ports
Build the Generic Kernel
  1. Change to the system architecture directory where the generic kernel configuration file is cd /sys/arch/$(machine)/compile/GENERIC.MP
  2. make obj
  3. make config
  4. make
  5. make install
  6. make clean
Build the Base System
  1. cd /usr/src
  2. make obj
  3. make build
Merge Changes and Make Devices
  1. sysmerge
  2. cd /dev
  3. ./MAKEDEV all
Updating Stable on OpenBSD

As a user that is part of the wsrc group (not root), do these steps.

  1. Change the directory to user source cd /usr/src
  2. Download a copy of the base system source cvs -q up -P -d -r OPENBSD_version_number
  3. Change the directory to user xenocara cd /usr/xenocara
  4. Download a copy of the xenocara source cvs -q up -P -d -r OPENBSD_version_number
  5. Change the directory to user ports cd /usr/ports
  6. Download a copy of the ports source cvs -q up -P -d -r OPENBSD_version_number
  7. Rebuild from downloaded source