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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 GEMDOS partitions. 47 48 These floppies are named "miniroot-_SVER_S.fs.1" and "miniroot-_SVER_S.fs.2". 49 50There are also TOS utilities in the "atari/utils.tos" subdirectory, which 51you will need to get NetBSD/Atari 'up-and-running'. 52 53 The "gzip.ttp" program allows you to uncompress .gz images. The 54 usage is "gzip.ttp -d filename.gz". 55 56 The "rawwrite.ttp" program allows you to create the installation 57 floppy disks from the files in the "atari/floppies" directory. 58 59 The "aptck.ttp" program reads the partition tables present on a 60 given disk and tries to interpret then the same way the NetBSD 61 kernel does. If you have a disk on which GEMDOS and NetBSD are 62 to co-exist, It is a good idea to run this before you begin the 63 NetBSD/Atari installation just to check that the kernel's view 64 of the partition tables agree with GEMDOS's view. If you have 65 more than 3 partitions defined on a disk you will notice that 66 the NetBSD/Atari partition starts one sector after the GEMDOS 67 partition. This is to allow space for the auxilliary root for 68 the 4th and subsequent partitions. 69 70 The "loadbsd.ttp" program loads the NetBSD/Atari kernel from TOS 71 (or MiNT, MultiTOS, etc.). 72 73The NetBSD/Atari kernels are in the "atari/kernels" subdirectory. 74 75The NetBSD/atari binary distribution sets contain the binaries which 76comprise the NetBSD _VER release for the atari. There are seven binary 77distribution sets, and the "security" distribution set. The binary 78distribution sets can be found in subdirectories of the "atari/binary" 79subdirectory of the NetBSD _VER distribution tree, and are as follows: 80 81 base The NetBSD/atari _VER base binary distribution. You 82 MUST install this distribution set. It contains the 83 base NetBSD utilities that are necessary for the 84 system to run and be minimally functional. It 85 includes shared library support, and excludes 86 everything described below. 87 [ 8.7M gzipped, 25.2M uncompressed ] 88 89 comp The NetBSD/atari Compiler tools. All of the tools 90 relating to C, C++, and FORTRAN (yes, there are two!). 91 This set includes the system include files 92 (/usr/include), the linker, the compiler tool chain, 93 and the various system libraries (except the shared 94 libraries, which are included as part of the base 95 set). This set also includes the manual pages for all 96 of the utilities it contains, as well as the system 97 call and library manual pages. 98 [ 6.5M gzipped, 22.9M uncompressed ] 99 100 etc This distribution set contains the system 101 configuration files that reside in /etc and in several 102 other places. This set MUST be installed if you are 103 installing the system from scratch, but should NOT be 104 used if you are upgrading. (If you are upgrading, 105 it's recommended that you get a copy of this set and 106 CAREFULLY upgrade your configuration files by hand.) 107 [ 52K gzipped, 320K uncompressed ] 108 109 games This set includes the games and their manual pages. 110 [ 2.8M gzipped, 7.2M uncompressed ] 111 112 man This set includes all of the manual pages for the 113 binaries and other software contained in the base set. 114 Note that it does not include any of the manual pages 115 that are included in the other sets. 116 [ 2.4M gzipped, 10.0M uncompressed ] 117 118 misc This set includes the system dictionaries (which are 119 rather large), the typesettable document set, and 120 man pages for other architectures which happen to be 121 installed from the source tree by default. 122 [ 2.1M gzipped, 8.1M uncompressed ] 123 124 text This set includes NetBSD's text processing tools, 125 including groff, all related programs, and their 126 manual pages. 127 [ 960K gzipped, 3.7M uncompressed ] 128 129The atari security distribution set is named "secr" and can be found 130in the "atari/security" subdirectory of the NetBSD _VER distribution 131tree. It contains crypt.c (the source file for the DES encryption 132algorithm) and the binaries which depend on it. It can only be found 133on those sites which carry the complete NetBSD distribution and that 134can legally obtain it. (Remember, because of United States law, it 135may not be legal to distribute this set to locations outside of the 136United States and Canada.) [ 740K gzipped, 2.5M uncompressed ] 137 138The atari binary distribution sets are distributed in the same form as 139the source distribution sets; catted together, the members of a set 140form a gzipped tar file. Each atari binary distribution set also has 141its own "CKSUMS" file, just as the source distribution sets do. 142 143The instructions given for extracting the source sets work equally 144well for the binary sets, but it is worth noting that if you use that 145method, the files are extracted "below" the current directory. That 146is, if you want to extract the binaries "into" your system, i.e. 147replace the system binaries with them, you have to run the "tar xvfp" 148from /. Also note that if you upgrade or install this way, those 149programs that you are using at the time will NOT be replaced. If you 150follow the normal installation or upgrade procedures, this will be 151taken care of for you. 152