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1 The Amiga-specific portion of the NetBSD _VER release is found in the 2 "amiga" subdirectory of the distribution. That subdirectory is laid 3 out as follows: 4 5 .../NetBSD-_VER/amiga/ 6 INSTALL Installation notes; this file. 7 8 binary/ 9 sets/ Amiga binary distribution sets; 10 see below. 11 12 security/ Amiga security distribution; 13 see below; 14 15 installation/ 16 miniroot/ Amiga miniroot file system 17 image; see below. 18 19 misc/ Miscellaneous Amiga 20 installation utilities; see 21 installation section, below. 22 23 The Amiga now uses a single miniroot filesystem for both an initial 24 installation and for an upgrade. A gzipped version is available, for easier 25 downloading. (The gzipped version have the ".gz" extension added to 26 their names.) 27 28 Miniroot file system: 29 30 This file contains a BSD root file system setup to help you 31 install the rest of NetBSD or to upgrade a previous version of 32 NetBSD. This includes formatting and mounting your root and 33 /usr partitions and getting ready to extract (and possibly first 34 fetching) the distribution sets. There is enough on this file 35 system to allow you to make a SLIP or PPP connection, configure 36 an Ethernet, mount an NFS file system or ftp. You can also load 37 distribution sets from a SCSI tape or from one of your existing 38 AmigaDOS partitions. 39 40 This file is named "miniroot.fs". 41 42 The NetBSD/Amiga binary distribution sets contain the binaries which 43 comprise the NetBSD _VER release for the Amiga. There are seven binary 44 distribution sets, and the "security" distribution set. The binary 45 distribution sets can be found in subdirectories of the "amiga/binary" 46 subdirectory of the NetBSD _VER distribution tree, and are as follows: 47 48 base The NetBSD/Amiga _VER base binary distribution. You 49 MUST install this distribution set. It contains the 50 base NetBSD utilities that are necessary for the 51 system to run and be minimally functional. It 52 includes shared library support, and excludes 53 everything described below. 54 [ 8.7M gzipped, 25.2M uncompressed ] 55 56 comp The NetBSD/Amiga Compiler tools. All of the tools 57 relating to C, C++, and FORTRAN (yes, there are two!). 58 This set includes the system include files 59 (/usr/include), the linker, the compiler tool chain, 60 and the various system libraries (except the shared 61 libraries, which are included as part of the base 62 set). This set also includes the manual pages for all 63 of the utilities it contains, as well as the system 64 call and library manual pages. 65 [ 6.5M gzipped, 22.9M uncompressed ] 66 67 etc This distribution set contains the system 68 configuration files that reside in /etc and in several 69 other places. This set MUST be installed if you are 70 installing the system from scratch, but should NOT be 71 used if you are upgrading. (If you are upgrading, 72 it's recommended that you get a copy of this set and 73 CAREFULLY upgrade your configuration files by hand.) 74 [ 52K gzipped, 320K uncompressed ] 75 76 games This set includes the games and their manual pages. 77 [ 2.8M gzipped, 7.2M uncompressed ] 78 79 man This set includes all of the manual pages for the 80 binaries and other software contained in the base set. 81 Note that it does not include any of the manual pages 82 that are included in the other sets. 83 [ 2.4M gzipped, 10.0M uncompressed ] 84 85 misc This set includes the system dictionaries (which are 86 rather large), the typesettable document set, and 87 man pages for other architectures which happen to be 88 installed from the source tree by default. 89 [ 2.1M gzipped, 8.1M uncompressed ] 90 91 text This set includes NetBSD's text processing tools, 92 including groff, all related programs, and their 93 manual pages. 94 [ 960K gzipped, 3.7M uncompressed ] 95 96 The Amiga security distribution set is named "secr" and can be found 97 in the "amiga/security" subdirectory of the NetBSD _VER distribution 98 tree. It contains crypt.c (the source file for the DES encryption 99 algorithm) and the binaries which depend on it. It can only be found 100 on those sites which carry the complete NetBSD distribution and that 101 can legally obtain it. (Remember, because of United States law, it 102 may not be legal to distribute this set to locations outside of the 103 United States and Canada.) [ 740K gzipped, 2.5M uncompressed ] 104 105 The Amiga binary distribution sets are distributed in the same form as 106 the source distribution sets; catted together, the members of a set 107 form a gzipped tar file. Each Amiga binary distribution set also has 108 its own "CKSUMS" file, just as the source distribution sets do. 109 110 The instructions given for extracting the source sets work equally 111 well for the binary sets, but it is worth noting that if you use that 112 method, the files are extracted "below" the current directory. That 113 is, if you want to extract the binaries "into" your system, i.e. 114 replace the system binaries with them, you have to run the "tar xvfp" 115 from /. Also note that if you upgrade or install this way, those 116 programs that you are using at the time will NOT be replaced. If you 117 follow the normal installation or upgrade procedures, this will be 118 taken care of for you. 119
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