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1 1.1.2.2 perry The alpha-specific portion of the NetBSD _VER release is found in the 2 1.1.2.2 perry "alpha" subdirectory of the distribution. That subdirectory is laid 3 1.1.2.2 perry out as follows: 4 1.1.2.2 perry 5 1.1.2.2 perry .../NetBSD-_VER/alpha/ 6 1.1.2.2 perry INSTALL Installation notes; this file. 7 1.1.2.2 perry 8 1.1.2.2 perry binary/ 9 1.1.2.2 perry sets/ alpha binary distribution sets; 10 1.1.2.2 perry see below. 11 1.1.2.2 perry 12 1.1.2.2 perry security/ alpha security distribution; 13 1.1.2.2 perry see below. 14 1.1.2.2 perry 15 1.1.2.2 perry kernel/ alpha kernels; see below. 16 1.1.2.2 perry 17 1.1.2.2 perry toolchain/ alpha toolchain; see below. 18 1.1.2.2 perry 19 1.1.2.2 perry installation/ 20 1.1.2.2 perry 21 1.1.2.2 perry floppy/ alpha boot and installation 22 1.1.2.2 perry floppies; see below. 23 1.1.2.2 perry 24 1.1.2.2 perry source/ 25 1.1.2.2 perry 26 1.1.2.2 perry toolchain/ Toolchain source code; see below. 27 1.1.2.2 perry 28 1.1.2.2 perry Bootable installation/upgrade floppies: 29 1.1.2.2 perry 30 1.1.2.2 perry There is a bootable floppy disk image available which contains 31 1.1.2.2 perry the software necessary to prepare your hard drive for NetBSD 32 1.1.2.2 perry and install the NetBSD distribution, or to upgrading an already 33 1.1.2.2 perry installed system from a previous version of NetBSD. 34 1.1.2.2 perry 35 1.1.2.2 perry Because the kernel on the installation disks is not suitable 36 1.1.2.2 perry for use beyond initial installation and configuration, a 37 1.1.2.2 perry "generic" kernel has been placed in a distribution set named 38 1.1.2.2 perry "kern". This kernel is intended to run your system while you 39 1.1.2.2 perry build a custom kernel. It is strongly encouraged that you 40 1.1.2.2 perry build a custom kernel for your installation rather than use 41 1.1.2.2 perry the prebuilt generic kernel on a long term basis. 42 1.1.2.2 perry 43 1.1.2.2 perry Please note that because of space considerations the kernels 44 1.1.2.2 perry booted from the installation floppies do not contain drivers 45 1.1.2.2 perry that are not needed during installation -- in particular, no 46 1.1.2.2 perry drivers needed to run the X Window System are available in 47 1.1.2.2 perry these kernels. 48 1.1.2.2 perry 49 1.1.2.2 perry The alpha toolchain: 50 1.1.2.2 perry 51 1.1.2.2 perry The toolchain (compiler, assembler, linker, etc.) for the 52 1.1.2.2 perry alpha port is not yet integrated into the main NetBSD source 53 1.1.2.2 perry tree, so the binaries for it are still distributed separately. 54 1.1.2.2 perry A tar file with the toolchain can be found under 55 1.1.2.2 perry binaries/toolchain, and the source can be found under 56 1.1.2.2 perry source/toolchain. 57 1.1.2.2 perry 58 1.1.2.2 perry The toolchain installs under usr/local; to install it, 59 1.1.2.2 perry just cd to the root directory and type 60 1.1.2.2 perry 61 1.1.2.2 perry tar -x -z --unlink -f /path/to/toolchain.tar.gz 62 1.1.2.2 perry 63 1.1.2.2 perry Note that the "official" toolchain we use with 1.3 is actually 64 1.1.2.2 perry the snapshot build of it from 97.11.05; this is based on the 65 1.1.2.2 perry sources tagged WORKING-alpha in the NetBSD source tree. 66 1.1.2.2 perry 67 1.1.2.2 perry The NetBSD/alpha binary distribution sets contain the binaries which 68 1.1.2.2 perry comprise the NetBSD _VER release for the alpha. There are eight binary 69 1.1.2.2 perry distribution sets and the "security" distribution set. The binary 70 1.1.2.2 perry distribution sets can be found in the "alpha/binary/sets" subdirectory 71 1.1.2.2 perry of the NetBSD _VER distribution tree, and are as follows: 72 1.1.2.2 perry 73 1.1.2.2 perry 74 1.1.2.2 perry base The NetBSD/alpha _VER base binary distribution. You 75 1.1.2.2 perry MUST install this distribution set. It contains the 76 1.1.2.2 perry base NetBSD utilities that are necessary for the 77 1.1.2.2 perry system to run and be minimally functional. It 78 1.1.2.2 perry includes shared library support, and excludes 79 1.1.2.2 perry everything described below. 80 1.1.2.2 perry [ 13M gzipped, 41M uncompressed ] 81 1.1.2.2 perry 82 1.1.2.2 perry comp Things needed for compiling programs, other than the 83 1.1.2.2 perry actual compiler programs themselves. (These are in 84 1.1.2.2 perry the toolchain snapshot file described above.) This 85 1.1.2.2 perry set includes the system include files (/usr/include) 86 1.1.2.2 perry and the various system libraries (except the shared 87 1.1.2.2 perry libraries, which are included as part of the base 88 1.1.2.2 perry set). This set also includes the manual pages for 89 1.1.2.2 perry all of the utilities it contains, as well as the system 90 1.1.2.2 perry call and library manual pages. 91 1.1.2.2 perry [ 6M gzipped, 31M uncompressed ] 92 1.1.2.2 perry 93 1.1.2.2 perry etc This distribution set contains the system 94 1.1.2.2 perry configuration files that reside in /etc and in several 95 1.1.2.2 perry other places. This set MUST be installed if you are 96 1.1.2.2 perry installing the system from scratch, but should NOT be 97 1.1.2.2 perry used if you are upgrading. (If you are upgrading, 98 1.1.2.2 perry it's recommended that you get a copy of this set and 99 1.1.2.2 perry CAREFULLY upgrade your configuration files by hand.) 100 1.1.2.2 perry [ 50K gzipped, 320K uncompressed ] 101 1.1.2.2 perry 102 1.1.2.2 perry games This set includes the games and their manual pages. 103 1.1.2.2 perry [ 3M gzipped, 8M uncompressed ] 104 1.1.2.2 perry 105 1.1.2.2 perry kern This set contains a NetBSD/alpha _VER GENERIC kernel, 106 1.1.2.2 perry named "/netbsd". You MUST install this distribution 107 1.1.2.2 perry set. 108 1.1.2.2 perry [ 1M gzipped, 2M uncompressed ] 109 1.1.2.2 perry 110 1.1.2.2 perry man This set includes all of the manual pages for the 111 1.1.2.2 perry binaries and other software contained in the base set. 112 1.1.2.2 perry Note that it does not include any of the manual pages 113 1.1.2.2 perry that are included in the other sets. 114 1.1.2.2 perry [ 2.5M gzipped, 10M uncompressed ] 115 1.1.2.2 perry 116 1.1.2.2 perry misc This set includes the system dictionaries (which are 117 1.1.2.2 perry rather large), the typesettable document set, and 118 1.1.2.2 perry man pages for other architectures which happen to be 119 1.1.2.2 perry installed from the source tree by default. 120 1.1.2.2 perry [ 2M gzipped, 9M uncompressed ] 121 1.1.2.2 perry 122 1.1.2.2 perry text This set includes NetBSD's text processing tools, 123 1.1.2.2 perry including groff, all related programs, and their 124 1.1.2.2 perry manual pages. 125 1.1.2.2 perry [ 1M gzipped, 4M uncompressed ] 126 1.1.2.2 perry 127 1.1.2.2 perry 128 1.1.2.2 perry The alpha security distribution set is named "secr" and can be found in 129 1.1.2.2 perry the "alpha/binary/security" subdirectory of the NetBSD _VER 130 1.1.2.2 perry distribution tree. It contains security related binaries which depend 131 1.1.2.2 perry on cryptographic source code. You do not need this distribution set to 132 1.1.2.2 perry use encrypted passwords in your password file; the "base" distribution 133 1.1.2.2 perry includes a crypt library which can perform only the decryption 134 1.1.2.2 perry function. The security distribution includes a version of the 135 1.1.2.2 perry Kerberos IV network security system, and a Kerberized version of the 136 1.1.2.2 perry "telnet" program. The "secr" distribution set can be found only on 137 1.1.2.2 perry those sites which carry the complete NetBSD distribution and which can 138 1.1.2.2 perry legally obtain it. (Remember, because of United States law, it may 139 1.1.2.2 perry not be legal to distribute this set to locations outside of the United 140 1.1.2.2 perry States and Canada.) 141 1.1.2.2 perry [ 1M gzipped, 3M uncompressed ] 142 1.1.2.2 perry 143 1.1.2.2 perry The instructions given for extracting the source sets work equally 144 1.1.2.2 perry well for the binary sets, but it is worth noting that if you use that 145 1.1.2.2 perry method, the files are extracted "below" the current directory. That 146 1.1.2.2 perry is, if you want to extract the binaries "into" your system, i.e. 147 1.1.2.2 perry replace the system binaries with them, you have to run the "tar xfp" 148 1.1.2.2 perry from /. Also note that if you upgrade or install this way, those 149 1.1.2.2 perry programs that you are using at the time will NOT be replaced unless 150 1.1.2.2 perry you run "tar" with the "--unlink" option. If you follow the normal 151 1.1.2.2 perry installation or upgrade procedures, this will be taken care of for 152 1.1.2.2 perry you. 153
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