NetBSD Documentation
This site provides links to the official NetBSD documentation and also links to various external documents. It's impossible to list every single article or tutorial about NetBSD, but please contact us if you think that a resource should be added.
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The NetBSD Guide - all information about the installation and administration of the NetBSD operating system (single HTML document). Available formats for download: PDF, PostScript and TXT.
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NetBSD Internals - aimed at contributors who wish to develop extensions or want to improve NetBSD's existing code (single HTML document). Available formats for download: PDF, PostScript and TXT.
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The pkgsrc guide - for users and developers of pkgsrc, the centralized package build and management system (single HTML document). Available formats for download: PDF, PostScript and TXT.
The manual pages describe the system commands, functions and drivers - the most important documentation for users.
These FAQs help with various hardware platform specific issues.
A collection of basic questions about NetBSD
- User configuration
- General questions about NetBSD
- Common (and less common) problems
- Other questions
- External documents:
- Adding a disk to an existing system
- Creating a bootable NetBSD CD-ROM
- Memory/Swap Configuration
- Encrypted swap with cgd
- Moving /usr from root to a different partition
- Mounting a 'read-only' filesystem read/write
- Safe use of fsck
- What are /kern and /proc (kernfs, procfs)?
- Rebuilding /dev
- Setting up a striped (ccd) drive
- Filesystems in User-Space: puffs, refuse, FUSE, and more
- Encrypted iSCSI devices on NetBSD
- Mounting an old FFSv1 file system causes a strange kernel warning
- External documents:
- Running VMWare on NetBSD (dated document for NetBSD 1.6)
- NetBSD/xen Howto - NetBSD as domain0 and domainU with Xen2 and Xen3. Including how to install Linux as domainU.
- Kernel FAQ
- Kernel Programming FAQ
- Kernel Profiling HOWTO
- NetBSD UVM FAQ
- Debugging the NetBSD kernel with GDB HOWTO
- Vendor-specific ELF Note Elements
- Why implement traditional vfork()
- NetBSD Device Driver Writing Guide
- Kernel example dynamic modules
- Writing a pseudo device
- Design Overview of the 4.4BSD kernel
- Information about non-executable mappings
- Porting NetBSD to a new ARM SoC
- Kernel Code as a Userspace Library: rump
- Basic NetBSD Networking
- The Internet Super Server
- DNS and BIND on NetBSD
- NetBSD Security Processes and Services
- Wireless networking with WPA encryption
- Networking using Lucent WaveLAN
- HOWTO Netboot a diskless machine
- HOWTO setup DHCP clients and servers
- Steps to connect via GPRS / CDPD
- NetBSD/amiga Guide to Networking FAQ
- IPv6 Networking FAQ
- IPsec FAQ
- RASVPN HowTo - building a user remote access VPN gateway using IPsec
- NetBSD Packet Filter (NPF) documentation
- Deprecated: IPFilter (IPF) resources
- Deprecated: Packet Filter (PF) FAQ
- ALTQ Tips
- See this section for help with various printing tasks or for setting up a scanner. Scanners are not supported by the NetBSD base system. It is necessary to install and configure additional software.
- See the security page.
- The pkgsrc guide
- Adding/compiling software on NetBSD (including packages & pkgsrc)
- X Window or X11 is the graphical display system used on NetBSD. Depending on your platform, either the X.Org or XFree86 implementation is the default on NetBSD, and X.Org can always be used from pkgsrc as an alternative. This HOWTO about X11 helps with specific configuration issues.
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A collection of published technical and non-technical articles can be found here. Presentations about NetBSD are listed on this page.
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Research carried out using NetBSD and Research of interest to NetBSD
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Recommended reading - informative and useful books