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1 $NetBSD: contents,v 1.15 1998/01/09 18:46:27 perry Exp $ 2 3 The i386-specific portion of the NetBSD _VER release is found in the 4 "i386" subdirectory of the distribution. That subdirectory is laid 5 out as follows: 6 7 .../NetBSD-_VER/i386/ 8 INSTALL Installation notes; this file. 9 10 binary/ 11 sets/ i386 binary distribution sets; 12 see below. 13 14 Split/ Split i386 binary distribution 15 sets; see below. 16 17 security/ i386 security distribution; 18 see below; 19 installation/ 20 21 floppy/ i386 boot and installation 22 floppies; see below. 23 24 25 misc/ Miscellaneous i386 26 installation utilities; see 27 installation section, below. 28 29 There are two i386 floppy images, named "boot.fs" and "boot-small.fs", 30 in the "i386/installation/floppy" subdirectory of the NetBSD _VER 31 distribution. These are 1.44M and 1.2M floppy disk images 32 (respectively). These floppies are bootable, and are used both for 33 installations and for upgrades. They are described in more detail 34 below. There are also gzipped version of these floppies (named with 35 ".fs.gz") available. 36 37 Bootable installation/upgrade floppies: 38 39 These disks are bootable, and contains the software necessary 40 to prepare your hard drive for NetBSD and install the NetBSD 41 distribution, or to upgrading an already installed 42 system from a previous version of NetBSD. 43 44 Unlike previous NetBSD releases, there are no separate "kernel 45 copy" floppies or "upgrade" floppies. Instead, the install 46 floppy contains only a special compressed kernel with a built 47 in ramdisk image of the installation/upgrade file 48 system. There is also no longer any need to use a different 49 boot floppy for Adaptec and Buslogic based systems. 50 51 The only difference between the "boot.fs" and "boot-small.fs" 52 floppies is that the 1.2M "boot-small.fs" image does not 53 contain support for PCMCIA or PCI devices so that it can be 54 fit on a 1.2M floppy suitable for use on older systems. 55 56 Because the kernel on the installation disks is not suitable 57 for use beyond initial installation and configuration, a 58 "generic" kernel has been placed in a distribution set named 59 "kern". This kernel is intended to run your system while 60 you build a custom kernel. It is strongly encouraged that you 61 build a custom kernel for your installation rather than use 62 the prebuilt generic kernel on a long term basis. 63 64 Please note that because of space considerations the kernels 65 booted from the installation floppies do not contain drivers 66 that are not needed during installation -- in particular, no 67 drivers needed to run the X Window System are available in 68 these kernels. 69 70 The NetBSD/i386 binary distribution sets contain the binaries which 71 comprise the NetBSD _VER release for the i386. There are eight binary 72 distribution sets and the "security" distribution set. The binary 73 distribution sets can be found in the "i386/binary/sets" subdirectory 74 of the NetBSD _VER distribution tree, and are as follows: 75 76 77 base The NetBSD/i386 _VER base binary distribution. You 78 MUST install this distribution set. It contains the 79 base NetBSD utilities that are necessary for the 80 system to run and be minimally functional. It 81 includes shared library support, and excludes 82 everything described below. 83 [ 9.7M gzipped, 25.0M uncompressed ] 84 85 comp The NetBSD/i386 Compiler tools. All of the tools 86 relating to C, C++, and FORTRAN (yes, there are two!). 87 This set includes the system include files 88 (/usr/include), the linker, the compiler tool chain, 89 and the various system libraries (except the shared 90 libraries, which are included as part of the base 91 set). This set also includes the manual pages for all 92 of the utilities it contains, as well as the system 93 call and library manual pages. 94 [ 7.1M gzipped, 24.1M uncompressed ] 95 96 etc This distribution set contains the system 97 configuration files that reside in /etc and in several 98 other places. This set MUST be installed if you are 99 installing the system from scratch, but should NOT be 100 used if you are upgrading. (If you are upgrading, 101 it's recommended that you get a copy of this set and 102 CAREFULLY upgrade your configuration files by hand.) 103 [ 53K gzipped, 328K uncompressed ] 104 105 games This set includes the games and their manual pages. 106 [ 3.0M gzipped, 7.3M uncompressed ] 107 108 kern This set contains a NetBSD/i386 _VER GENERIC kernel, 109 named "/netbsd". You MUST install this distribution 110 set. 111 [ 1.1M gzipped, 2.2M uncompressed ] 112 113 man This set includes all of the manual pages for the 114 binaries and other software contained in the base set. 115 Note that it does not include any of the manual pages 116 that are included in the other sets. 117 [ 2.5M gzipped, 10.6M uncompressed ] 118 119 misc This set includes the system dictionaries (which are 120 rather large), the typesettable document set, and 121 man pages for other architectures which happen to be 122 installed from the source tree by default. 123 [ 2.2M gzipped, 8.3M uncompressed ] 124 125 text This set includes NetBSD's text processing tools, 126 including groff, all related programs, and their 127 manual pages. 128 [ 1.0M gzipped, 3.7M uncompressed ] 129 130 131 IMPORTANT: In previous versions of NetBSD, the kernel from the install 132 floppy was copied onto the hard drive in a special step. In the new 133 install system, the kernel on the floppy is unsuited to being copied 134 onto the hard drive. Instead, a new set, "kern", has been added which 135 contains a generic kernel to be unloaded onto the drive. It must be 136 extracted in order to have a minimally functioning system. 137 138 The i386 security distribution set is named "secr" and can be found in 139 the "i386/binary/security" subdirectory of the NetBSD _VER 140 distribution tree. It contains security related binaries which depend 141 on cryptographic source code. You do not need this distribution set to 142 use encrypted passwords in your password file; the "base" distribution 143 includes a crypt library which can perform only the decryption 144 function. The security distribution includes a version of the 145 Kerberos IV network security system, and a Kerberized version of the 146 "telnet" program. The "secr" distribution set can be found only on 147 those sites which carry the complete NetBSD distribution and which can 148 legally obtain it. (Remember, because of United States law, it may 149 not be legal to distribute this set to locations outside of the United 150 States and Canada.) 151 [ 798K gzipped, 2.4M uncompressed ] 152 153 Since NetBSD 1.3, binary sets for the X Window system are also 154 distributed with NetBSD. The binaries are based on X11R6.3, 155 and XFree86 3.3.1 in the case of NetBSD/i386. You can not yet 156 install them using the new automated install system. However, 157 they are gzipped tarfiles, just like the other sets, so you 158 can always simply extract them once you have your NetBSD 159 system installed and running. The sets are: 160 161 xbase The basic files needed for a complete X 162 client environment. This does not include 163 the X servers. 164 [ 2.5M gzipped, 7.7M uncompressed ] 165 166 xcomp The extra libraries and include files needed 167 to compile X source code. 168 [ 1.7M gzipped, 7.3M uncompressed ] 169 170 xcontrib Programs that were contributed to X. 171 172 [ 183k gzipped, 600k uncompressed ] 173 174 xfont Fonts needed by X. 175 [ 5.8M gzipped, 7M uncompressed ] 176 177 xserver All XFree86 X servers. Because all of them are 178 included, this set is large. However, you will 179 only need one of the servers provided in this 180 set (typically XF86_SVGA). 181 [ 12M gzipped, 29M uncompressed ] 182 183 The i386 binary distribution sets are distributed as gzipped tar files 184 named with the extension ".tgz", e.g. "base.tgz". They are also 185 available in split form -- catted together, the members of a split set 186 form a gzipped tar file. Each i386 binary distribution set also has 187 its own checksum files, just as the source distribution sets do. 188 189 The instructions given for extracting the source sets work equally 190 well for the binary sets, but it is worth noting that if you use that 191 method, the files are extracted "below" the current directory. That 192 is, if you want to extract the binaries "into" your system, i.e. 193 replace the system binaries with them, you have to run the "tar xpf" 194 from /. Also note that if you upgrade or install this way, those 195 programs that you are using at the time will NOT be replaced unless 196 you run "tar" with the "--unlink" option. If you follow the normal 197 installation or upgrade procedures, this will be taken care of for 198 you. 199
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