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1The hp300-specific portion of the NetBSD 1.2 release is found in the 2"hp300" subdirectory of the distribution. That subdirectory is laid 3out as follows: 4 5.../NetBSD-1.2/hp300/ 6 binary/ hp300 binary distribution sets; 7 see below. 8 9 install/ a GENERIC kernel, installation 10 utilities and a miniroot filesystem; 11 see below. 12 13 security/ hp300 security distribution; 14 see below. 15 16The NetBSD/hp300 binary distribution sets contain the binaries which 17comprise the NetBSD 1.2 release for the hp300. There are seven binary 18distribution sets, and the "security" distribution set. The binary 19distribution sets can be found in the "hp300/binary" subdirectory of 20the NetBSD 1.2 distribution tree, and are as follows: 21 22 base12 The NetBSD/hp300 1.2 base binary distribution. You 23 MUST install this distribution set. It contains the 24 base NetBSD utilities that are necessary for the 25 system to run and be minimally functional. It 26 includes shared library support, and excludes 27 everything described below. 28 [ 7.2M gzipped, 19M uncompressed ] 29 30 comp12 The NetBSD/hp300 Compiler tools. All of the tools 31 relating to C and C++. This set includes the system 32 include files (/usr/include), the linker, the compiler 33 tool chain, and the various system libraries (except 34 the shared libraries, which are included as part of the 35 base set). This set also includes the manual pages for 36 all of the utilities it contains, as well as the system 37 call and library manual pages. 38 [ 5.1M gzipped, 16.6M uncompressed ] 39 40 etc12 This distribution set contains the system configuration 41 files that reside in /etc and in several other places. 42 This set MUST be installed if you are installing the 43 system from scratch, but should NOT be used if you are 44 upgrading. (If you are upgrading, it's recommended that 45 you get a copy of this set and CAREFULLY upgrade your 46 configuration files by hand.) 47 [ 67K gzipped, 360K uncompressed ] 48 49 games12 This set includes the games and their manual pages. 50 [ 2.7M gzipped, 6.5M uncompressed ] 51 52 man12 This set includes all of the manual pages for the 53 binaries and other software contained in the base set. 54 Note that it does not include any of the manual pages 55 that are included in the other sets. 56 [ 894K gzipped, 3.5M uncompressed ] 57 58 misc12 This set includes the system dictionaries (which are 59 rather large), the typesettable document set, and 60 man pages for other architectures which happen to be 61 installed from the source tree by default. 62 [ 1.8M gzipped, 6.3M uncompressed ] 63 64 text12 This set includes NetBSD's text processing tools, 65 including groff, all related programs, and their 66 manual pages. 67 [ 756K gzipped, 2.8M uncompressed ] 68 69The hp300 security distribution set is named "secr12" and can be found 70in the "hp300/security" subdirectory of the NetBSD 1.2 distribution 71tree. It contains executables which are built in the "src/domestic" portion 72if the NetBSD source tree. It can only be found on those sites which carry 73the complete NetBSD distribution and that can legally obtain it. (Remember, 74because of United States law, it may not be legal to distribute this set to 75locations outside of the United States and Canada.) 76[ 128K gzipped, 275K uncompressed ] 77 78The hp300 binary distribution sets are distributed as gzipped tar files. 79Each hp300 binary distribution set also has its own "CKSUMS" file, just 80as the source distribution sets do. 81 82The following are included in the `.../install' directory: 83 84 SYS_INST.gz A gzipped copy of the SYS_INST miniroot 85 installation program. 86 87 SYS_NBOOT.gz A gzipped copy of the network boot block. 88 This is useful if you are installing 89 a diskless NetBSD/hp300 system. 90 91 miniroot-12.fs.gz A gzipped copy of the miniroot filesystem. 92 93 netbsd.gz A gzipped GENERIC kernel. 94 95 rbootd.tar.gz Source code for the rbootd(8) program, 96 required for netbooting an HP workstation. 97 98 HP-IB.geometry A file containing geometry for some HP-IB 99 disk drives. 100 101The instructions given for extracting the source sets work equally 102well for the binary sets, but it is worth noting that if you use that 103method, the files are extracted "below" the current directory. That 104is, if you want to extract the binaries "into" your system, i.e. 105replace the system binaries with them, you have to run the command: 106 107 tar --unlink -zxvpf set.tar.gz 108 109from /. Note that the "--unlink" flags is very important! 110 111For best results, it is recommended that you follow the installation 112and/or upgrade procedures documented in this file. 113