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1 1.1.2.5 mycroft $NetBSD: contents,v 1.1.2.5 1998/05/29 04:12:29 mycroft Exp $ 2 1.1.2.4 mycroft 3 1.1.2.2 perry The alpha-specific portion of the NetBSD _VER release is found in the 4 1.1.2.5 mycroft "alpha" subdirectory of the distribution: 5 1.1.2.2 perry 6 1.1.2.2 perry .../NetBSD-_VER/alpha/ 7 1.1.2.5 mycroft 8 1.1.2.3 perry INSTALL Installation notes; this file. 9 1.1.2.2 perry 10 1.1.2.3 perry binary/ 11 1.1.2.3 perry sets/ alpha binary distribution sets; 12 1.1.2.3 perry see below. 13 1.1.2.2 perry 14 1.1.2.3 perry security/ alpha security distribution; 15 1.1.2.3 perry see below. 16 1.1.2.2 perry 17 1.1.2.3 perry kernel/ alpha kernels; see below. 18 1.1.2.2 perry 19 1.1.2.3 perry installation/ 20 1.1.2.2 perry 21 1.1.2.3 perry floppy/ alpha boot and installation 22 1.1.2.3 perry floppies; see below. 23 1.1.2.2 perry 24 1.1.2.5 mycroft source/ Toolchain source code; see below. 25 1.1.2.2 perry 26 1.1.2.2 perry Bootable installation/upgrade floppies: 27 1.1.2.2 perry 28 1.1.2.3 perry There is a bootable floppy disk image available which contains 29 1.1.2.3 perry the software necessary to prepare your hard drive for NetBSD 30 1.1.2.3 perry and install the NetBSD distribution, or to upgrading an already 31 1.1.2.3 perry installed system from a previous version of NetBSD. 32 1.1.2.3 perry 33 1.1.2.3 perry Because the kernel on the installation disks is not suitable 34 1.1.2.3 perry for use beyond initial installation and configuration, a 35 1.1.2.3 perry "generic" kernel has been placed in a distribution set named 36 1.1.2.3 perry "kern". This kernel is intended to run your system while you 37 1.1.2.3 perry build a custom kernel. It is strongly encouraged that you 38 1.1.2.3 perry build a custom kernel for your installation rather than use 39 1.1.2.3 perry the prebuilt generic kernel on a long term basis. 40 1.1.2.3 perry 41 1.1.2.3 perry Please note that the INSTALL kernel (which is booted from 42 1.1.2.3 perry the install floppy or the network) is not usable for anything 43 1.1.2.3 perry other than installing; it will always use as root an internal 44 1.1.2.3 perry ramdisk with the install tools. Also, currently the INSTALL 45 1.1.2.3 perry image only supports systems that are likely to have a floppy 46 1.1.2.3 perry drive (the NoName, EB64+, EB164, AS500/600; the DECStation 47 1.1.2.3 perry 3000 systems and the 8200/8400 are not supported by this 48 1.1.2.3 perry floppy). If booting the INSTALL kernel from the network 49 1.1.2.3 perry proves popular, we will generate another network version 50 1.1.2.3 perry of the INSTALL kernel that supports more systems. 51 1.1.2.2 perry 52 1.1.2.2 perry The alpha toolchain: 53 1.1.2.2 perry 54 1.1.2.3 perry The toolchain (compiler, assembler, linker, etc.) for the 55 1.1.2.3 perry alpha port is not yet integrated into the main NetBSD source 56 1.1.2.4 mycroft tree, so the sources for it are distributed separately. This 57 1.1.2.4 mycroft source code should be unpacked into /usr/local/toolchain. 58 1.1.2.4 mycroft 59 1.1.2.4 mycroft Unlink some previous distributions, in this release the toolchain 60 1.1.2.4 mycroft binaries are not distributed in a toolchain set intended to be 61 1.1.2.4 mycroft installed into /usr/local, but this time are installed into /usr/bin 62 1.1.2.4 mycroft and are distributed in the standard comp.tgz binary distribution set 63 1.1.2.4 mycroft as with other NetBSD platforms. 64 1.1.2.2 perry 65 1.1.2.2 perry The NetBSD/alpha binary distribution sets contain the binaries which 66 1.1.2.2 perry comprise the NetBSD _VER release for the alpha. There are eight binary 67 1.1.2.2 perry distribution sets and the "security" distribution set. The binary 68 1.1.2.2 perry distribution sets can be found in the "alpha/binary/sets" subdirectory 69 1.1.2.2 perry of the NetBSD _VER distribution tree, and are as follows: 70 1.1.2.2 perry 71 1.1.2.2 perry 72 1.1.2.3 perry base The NetBSD/alpha _VER base binary distribution. You 73 1.1.2.3 perry MUST install this distribution set. It contains the 74 1.1.2.3 perry base NetBSD utilities that are necessary for the 75 1.1.2.3 perry system to run and be minimally functional. It 76 1.1.2.3 perry includes shared library support, and excludes 77 1.1.2.3 perry everything described below. 78 1.1.2.3 perry [ 13M gzipped, 41M uncompressed ] 79 1.1.2.3 perry 80 1.1.2.4 mycroft comp 81 1.1.2.4 mycroft Things needed for compiling programs. This set 82 1.1.2.4 mycroft includes the system include files (/usr/include) 83 1.1.2.4 mycroft and the various system libraries (except the shared 84 1.1.2.4 mycroft libraries, which are included as part of the base 85 1.1.2.4 mycroft set). This set also includes the manual pages for 86 1.1.2.4 mycroft all of the utilities it contains, as well as the 87 1.1.2.4 mycroft system call and library manual pages. 88 1.1.2.4 mycroft [ 6M gzipped, 31M uncompressed ] 89 1.1.2.3 perry 90 1.1.2.3 perry etc This distribution set contains the system 91 1.1.2.3 perry configuration files that reside in /etc and in several 92 1.1.2.3 perry other places. This set MUST be installed if you are 93 1.1.2.3 perry installing the system from scratch, but should NOT be 94 1.1.2.3 perry used if you are upgrading. (If you are upgrading, 95 1.1.2.3 perry it's recommended that you get a copy of this set and 96 1.1.2.3 perry CAREFULLY upgrade your configuration files by hand.) 97 1.1.2.3 perry [ 50K gzipped, 320K uncompressed ] 98 1.1.2.3 perry 99 1.1.2.3 perry games This set includes the games and their manual pages. 100 1.1.2.3 perry [ 3M gzipped, 8M uncompressed ] 101 1.1.2.3 perry 102 1.1.2.3 perry kern This set contains a NetBSD/alpha _VER GENERIC kernel, 103 1.1.2.3 perry named "/netbsd". You MUST install this distribution 104 1.1.2.3 perry set. 105 1.1.2.3 perry [ 1M gzipped, 2M uncompressed ] 106 1.1.2.3 perry 107 1.1.2.3 perry man This set includes all of the manual pages for the 108 1.1.2.3 perry binaries and other software contained in the base set. 109 1.1.2.3 perry Note that it does not include any of the manual pages 110 1.1.2.3 perry that are included in the other sets. 111 1.1.2.3 perry [ 2.5M gzipped, 10M uncompressed ] 112 1.1.2.3 perry 113 1.1.2.3 perry misc This set includes the system dictionaries (which are 114 1.1.2.3 perry rather large), the typesettable document set, and 115 1.1.2.3 perry man pages for other architectures which happen to be 116 1.1.2.3 perry installed from the source tree by default. 117 1.1.2.3 perry [ 2M gzipped, 9M uncompressed ] 118 1.1.2.3 perry 119 1.1.2.3 perry text This set includes NetBSD's text processing tools, 120 1.1.2.3 perry including groff, all related programs, and their 121 1.1.2.3 perry manual pages. 122 1.1.2.3 perry [ 1M gzipped, 4M uncompressed ] 123 1.1.2.3 perry 124 1.1.2.3 perry 125 1.1.2.3 perry The alpha security distribution set is named "secr" and can be 126 1.1.2.3 perry found in the "alpha/binary/security" subdirectory of the NetBSD 127 1.1.2.3 perry _VER distribution tree. It contains security related binaries 128 1.1.2.3 perry which depend on cryptographic source code. You do not need this 129 1.1.2.3 perry distribution set to use encrypted passwords in your password file; 130 1.1.2.3 perry the "base" distribution includes a crypt library which can perform 131 1.1.2.3 perry only the one-way encryption function. The security distribution 132 1.1.2.3 perry includes a version of the Kerberos IV network security system, and 133 1.1.2.3 perry a Kerberized version of the "telnet" program. The "secr" distribution 134 1.1.2.3 perry set can be found only on those sites which carry the complete NetBSD 135 1.1.2.3 perry distribution and which can legally obtain it. (Remember, because 136 1.1.2.3 perry of United States law, it may not be legal to distribute this set 137 1.1.2.3 perry to locations outside of the United States and Canada.) 138 1.1.2.3 perry [ 1M gzipped, 3M uncompressed ] 139 1.1.2.2 perry 140 1.1.2.2 perry The instructions given for extracting the source sets work equally 141 1.1.2.2 perry well for the binary sets, but it is worth noting that if you use that 142 1.1.2.2 perry method, the files are extracted "below" the current directory. That 143 1.1.2.2 perry is, if you want to extract the binaries "into" your system, i.e. 144 1.1.2.2 perry replace the system binaries with them, you have to run the "tar xfp" 145 1.1.2.2 perry from /. Also note that if you upgrade or install this way, those 146 1.1.2.2 perry programs that you are using at the time will NOT be replaced unless 147 1.1.2.2 perry you run "tar" with the "--unlink" option. If you follow the normal 148 1.1.2.2 perry installation or upgrade procedures, this will be taken care of for 149 1.1.2.2 perry you. 150
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