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1The Atari-specific portion of the NetBSD _VER release is found in the 2"atari" subdirectory of the distribution. That subdirectory is laid 3out as follows: 4 5.../NetBSD-_VER/atari/ 6 binary/ atari binary distribution sets; 7 see below. 8 9 floppies/ atari boot and installation 10 floppies; see below. 11 12 security/ atari security distribution; 13 see below; 14 15 utils.netbsd/ 16 utils.tos/ Miscellaneous atari 17 installation utilities; see 18 installation section, below. 19 20There are three atari floppy images to be found in the "atari/floppies" 21subdirectory of the NetBSD _VER distribution. One of them is a 22bootable TOS kernel floppy and the other two are installation floppies. 23They are described in more detail below. There are gzipped versions 24of each available, for easier downloading. (The gzipped version 25have the ".gz" extension added to their names.) 26 27Bootable Kernel floppy: 28 29 This TOS disk contains the loadbsd and chg_pid programs 30 and a kernel. It is setup so that you can insert it 31 int your floppy drive, and start the programs from GEM. 32 33 For the TT030 and Falcon, the floppy is named boot-_SVER_S.fs and 34 the kernel supplied is 'BOOT'. For the Hades, you need the 35 hades-boot-_SVER_S.fs floppy. The kernel is 'HADES'. 36 37Installation floppy: 38 39 This disk contains a BSD root file system setup to help 40 you install the rest of NetBSD. This includes formatting 41 and mounting your root and /usr partitions and getting 42 ready to extract (and possibly first fetching) the distribution 43 sets. There is enough on this file system to allow you to 44 make a slip connection, configure an ethernet, mount an NFS 45 file system or ftp. You can also load distribution sets from 46 a SCSI tape or from one of your existing TOS partitions. 47 48 These floppies are named "miniroot-_SVER_S.fs.1" and "miniroot-_SVER_S.fs.2". 49 50The NetBSD/atari binary distribution sets contain the binaries which 51comprise the NetBSD _VER release for the atari. There are seven binary 52distribution sets, and the "security" distribution set. The binary 53distribution sets can be found in subdirectories of the "atari/binary" 54subdirectory of the NetBSD _VER distribution tree, and are as follows: 55 56 base The NetBSD/atari _VER base binary distribution. You 57 MUST install this distribution set. It contains the 58 base NetBSD utilities that are necessary for the 59 system to run and be minimally functional. It 60 includes shared library support, and excludes 61 everything described below. 62 [ 8.7M gzipped, 25.2M uncompressed ] 63 64 comp The NetBSD/atari Compiler tools. All of the tools 65 relating to C, C++, and FORTRAN (yes, there are two!). 66 This set includes the system include files 67 (/usr/include), the linker, the compiler tool chain, 68 and the various system libraries (except the shared 69 libraries, which are included as part of the base 70 set). This set also includes the manual pages for all 71 of the utilities it contains, as well as the system 72 call and library manual pages. 73 [ 6.5M gzipped, 22.9M uncompressed ] 74 75 etc This distribution set contains the system 76 configuration files that reside in /etc and in several 77 other places. This set MUST be installed if you are 78 installing the system from scratch, but should NOT be 79 used if you are upgrading. (If you are upgrading, 80 it's recommended that you get a copy of this set and 81 CAREFULLY upgrade your configuration files by hand.) 82 [ 52K gzipped, 320K uncompressed ] 83 84 games This set includes the games and their manual pages. 85 [ 2.8M gzipped, 7.2M uncompressed ] 86 87 man This set includes all of the manual pages for the 88 binaries and other software contained in the base set. 89 Note that it does not include any of the manual pages 90 that are included in the other sets. 91 [ 2.4M gzipped, 10.0M uncompressed ] 92 93 misc This set includes the system dictionaries (which are 94 rather large), the typesettable document set, and 95 man pages for other architectures which happen to be 96 installed from the source tree by default. 97 [ 2.1M gzipped, 8.1M uncompressed ] 98 99 text This set includes NetBSD's text processing tools, 100 including groff, all related programs, and their 101 manual pages. 102 [ 960K gzipped, 3.7M uncompressed ] 103 104The atari security distribution set is named "secr" and can be found 105in the "atari/security" subdirectory of the NetBSD _VER distribution 106tree. It contains crypt.c (the source file for the DES encryption 107algorithm) and the binaries which depend on it. It can only be found 108on those sites which carry the complete NetBSD distribution and that 109can legally obtain it. (Remember, because of United States law, it 110may not be legal to distribute this set to locations outside of the 111United States and Canada.) [ 740K gzipped, 2.5M uncompressed ] 112 113The atari binary distribution sets are distributed in the same form as 114the source distribution sets; catted together, the members of a set 115form a gzipped tar file. Each atari binary distribution set also has 116its own "CKSUMS" file, just as the source distribution sets do. 117 118The instructions given for extracting the source sets work equally 119well for the binary sets, but it is worth noting that if you use that 120method, the files are extracted "below" the current directory. That 121is, if you want to extract the binaries "into" your system, i.e. 122replace the system binaries with them, you have to run the "tar xvfp" 123from /. Also note that if you upgrade or install this way, those 124programs that you are using at the time will NOT be replaced. If you 125follow the normal installation or upgrade procedures, this will be 126taken care of for you. 127