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1 $NetBSD: contents,v 1.8 1999/01/25 23:34:22 garbled Exp $ 2 3 The alpha-specific portion of the NetBSD _VER release is found in the 4 "alpha" subdirectory of the distribution: 5 #if _FOR_RELEASE 6 .../NetBSD-_VER/alpha/ 7 #else 8 .../arch/alpha/snapshot/YYYYMMDD/ 9 #endif 10 INSTALL Installation notes; this file. 11 12 binary/ 13 sets/ alpha binary distribution sets; 14 see below. 15 16 security/ alpha security distribution; 17 see below. 18 19 kernel/ alpha kernels; see below. 20 21 installation/ 22 23 floppy/ alpha boot and installation 24 floppies; see below. 25 26 source/ Toolchain source code; see below. 27 28 Bootable installation/upgrade floppies: 29 30 There is a bootable floppy disk image available which contains 31 the software necessary to prepare your hard drive for NetBSD 32 and install the NetBSD distribution, or to upgrading an already 33 installed system from a previous version of NetBSD. 34 35 Because the kernel on the installation disks is not suitable 36 for use beyond initial installation and configuration, a 37 "generic" kernel has been placed in a distribution set named 38 "kern". This kernel is intended to run your system while you 39 build a custom kernel. It is strongly encouraged that you 40 build a custom kernel for your installation rather than use 41 the prebuilt generic kernel on a long term basis. 42 43 Please note that the INSTALL kernel (which is booted from 44 the install floppy or the network) is not usable for anything 45 other than installing; it will always use as root an internal 46 ramdisk with the install tools. Also, currently the INSTALL 47 image only supports systems that are likely to have a floppy 48 drive (the NoName, EB64+, EB164, AS500/600; the DECStation 49 3000 systems and the 8200/8400 are not supported by this 50 floppy). If booting the INSTALL kernel from the network 51 proves popular, we will generate another network version 52 of the INSTALL kernel that supports more systems. 53 54 The alpha toolchain: 55 56 The toolchain (compiler, assembler, linker, etc.) for the 57 alpha port is not yet integrated into the main NetBSD source 58 tree, so the sources for it are distributed separately. This 59 source code should be unpacked into /usr/local/toolchain. 60 61 Unlink some previous distributions, in this release the toolchain 62 binaries are not distributed in a toolchain set intended to be 63 installed into /usr/local, but this time are installed into /usr/bin 64 and are distributed in the standard comp.tgz binary distribution set 65 as with other NetBSD platforms. 66 67 The NetBSD/alpha binary distribution sets contain the binaries which 68 comprise the NetBSD _VER release for the alpha. There are eight binary 69 distribution sets and the "security" distribution set. The binary 70 distribution sets can be found in the "alpha/binary/sets" subdirectory 71 of the NetBSD _VER distribution tree, and are as follows: 72 73 74 base The NetBSD/alpha _VER base binary distribution. You 75 MUST install this distribution set. It contains the 76 base NetBSD utilities that are necessary for the 77 system to run and be minimally functional. It 78 includes shared library support, and excludes 79 everything described below. 80 [ 13M gzipped, 41M uncompressed ] 81 82 comp 83 Things needed for compiling programs. This set 84 includes the system include files (/usr/include) 85 and the various system libraries (except the shared 86 libraries, which are included as part of the base 87 set). This set also includes the manual pages for 88 all of the utilities it contains, as well as the 89 system call and library manual pages. 90 [ 6M gzipped, 31M uncompressed ] 91 92 etc This distribution set contains the system 93 configuration files that reside in /etc and in several 94 other places. This set MUST be installed if you are 95 installing the system from scratch, but should NOT be 96 used if you are upgrading. (If you are upgrading, 97 it's recommended that you get a copy of this set and 98 CAREFULLY upgrade your configuration files by hand.) 99 [ 50K gzipped, 320K uncompressed ] 100 101 games This set includes the games and their manual pages. 102 [ 3M gzipped, 8M uncompressed ] 103 104 kern This set contains a NetBSD/alpha _VER GENERIC kernel, 105 named "/netbsd". You MUST install this distribution 106 set. 107 [ 1M gzipped, 2M uncompressed ] 108 109 man This set includes all of the manual pages for the 110 binaries and other software contained in the base set. 111 Note that it does not include any of the manual pages 112 that are included in the other sets. 113 [ 2.5M gzipped, 10M uncompressed ] 114 115 misc This set includes the system dictionaries (which are 116 rather large), the typesettable document set, and 117 man pages for other architectures which happen to be 118 installed from the source tree by default. 119 [ 2M gzipped, 9M uncompressed ] 120 121 text This set includes NetBSD's text processing tools, 122 including groff, all related programs, and their 123 manual pages. 124 [ 1M gzipped, 4M uncompressed ] 125 126 127 The alpha security distribution set is named "secr" and can be 128 found in the "alpha/binary/security" subdirectory of the NetBSD 129 _VER distribution tree. It contains security related binaries 130 which depend on cryptographic source code. You do not need this 131 distribution set to use encrypted passwords in your password file; 132 the "base" distribution includes a crypt library which can perform 133 only the one-way encryption function. The security distribution 134 includes a version of the Kerberos IV network security system, and 135 a Kerberized version of the "telnet" program. The "secr" distribution 136 set can be found only on those sites which carry the complete NetBSD 137 distribution and which can legally obtain it. (Remember, because 138 of United States law, it may not be legal to distribute this set 139 to locations outside of the United States and Canada.) 140 [ 1M gzipped, 3M uncompressed ] 141 142 The instructions given for extracting the source sets work equally 143 well for the binary sets, but it is worth noting that if you use that 144 method, the files are extracted "below" the current directory. That 145 is, if you want to extract the binaries "into" your system, i.e. 146 replace the system binaries with them, you have to run the "tar xfp" 147 from /. 148
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