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.Ss2 NetBSD/\*m Subdirectory Structure The \*m-specific portion of the .Nx \*V release is found in the
a \*m subdirectory of the distribution: l -tag -compact -width INSTALL.html . It Pa INSTALL.html . It Pa INSTALL.ps . It Pa INSTALL.txt . It Pa INSTALL.more Installation notes; this file. The
a .more No file contains underlined text using the
.Xr more 1
conventions for indicating italic and bold display.
. It Pa binary/
. Bl -tag -compact -width diskimage/
. It Pa sets/
\*m binary distribution sets;
see below.
. It Pa security/
\*m security distribution; see below.
. El
. It Pa installation/
BTW, .Bl ... .El is not allowed unless there is at least one .It.
.
.
l -tag -compact -width diskimage/ . It Pa floppy/
\*m boot and installation floppies; see below.
. It Pa misc/
Miscellaneous \*[MACHINE] installation utilities; see
installation section, below.
.El
.
.
.
.
.El
.
.
.
.Ss2 Binary Distribution Sets
The
.Nx
\*m
binary distribution sets contain the binaries which
comprise the
.Nx \*V
release for the \*m. There are eight binary distribution
The binary distribution sets can be found in the
a \*m/binary/sets subdirectory of the .Nx \*V distribution tree, and are as follows: l -tag -width mmmmmmmmmmm -compact
p t Sy base The .Nx \*V .No \*m Sy base No binary distribution. You .Em must install this distribution set. It contains the base .Nx utilities that are necessary for the system to run and be minimally functional. It includes shared library support, and excludes everything described below.
p t Sy comp Things needed for compiling programs. This set includes the system include files
q Pa /usr/include and the various system libraries (except the shared libraries, which are included as part of the .Sy base set). This set also includes the manual pages for all of the utilities it contains, as well as the system call and library manual pages.
p t Sy etc This distribution set contains the system configuration files that reside in
a /etc and in several other places. This set .Em must be installed if you are installing the system from scratch, but should .Em not be used if you are upgrading. (If you are upgrading, it's recommended that you get a copy of this set and .Em carefully upgrade your configuration files by hand.)
p
t Sy games This set includes the games and their manual pages.
.
garden variety kern set description
.
p t Sy kern This set contains a NetBSD/\*m \*V .Tn GENERIC No kernel, named Pa /netbsd . .No You Em must install this distribution set. .\}
p
t Sy man This set includes all of the manual pages for the
binaries and other software contained in the
.Sy base
set.
Note that it does not include any of the manual pages
that are included in the other sets.
Contrary to popular belief, these aren't MI yet....
.Em 4.0M gzipped, 15.9M uncompressed
p t Sy misc This set includes the (rather large) system dictionaries, the typesettable document set, and other files from
a /usr/share .
Contrary to popular belief, these aren't (quite!) MI yet....
.Em 2.1M gzipped, 8.5M uncompressed
p t Sy text This set includes NetBSD's text processing tools, including .Xr groff 1 , all related programs, and their manual pages. .El . .
p
.Nx
maintains its own set of sources for the X Window System in order to
assure tight integration and compatibility.
These sources are based on XFree86, and tightly track XFree86 releases.
They are currently equivalent to XFree86 3.3.6.
Binary sets for the X Window system are distributed with
.Nx .
The sets are:
l -tag -width xcontribmmm t Sy xbase The basic files needed for a complete X
client environment. This does not include
the X servers.
t Sy xcomp The extra libraries and include files needed to compile X source code.
t Sy xcontrib Programs that were contributed to X.
t Sy xfont Fonts needed by X.
Contrary to popular belief, these aren't MI yet....
.Em 5.5M gzipped, 6.8M uncompressed
.
p
t Sy xserver All XFree86 X servers. Because all of them are
included, this set is large. However, you will
only need one of the servers provided in this
set. (Typically, XF86_SVGA.)
.Em 15.9M gzipped, 37.7M uncompressed
.
.El
.
============================ MI DISCUSSION OF BINARY SETS
.
p The \*m binary distribution sets are distributed as gzipped tar files named with the extension .Sy .tgz , No e.g.
a base.tgz .
.
.
contrary to most old INSTALL docs, only i386 has Split/ sets
.
.
They are also
available in split form - catted together, the members of a split set
form a gzipped tar file.
.\}
.
.
p The instructions given for extracting the source sets work equally well for the binary sets, but it is worth noting that if you use that method, the files are /-relative and therefore are extracted .Em below the current directory. That is, if you want to extract the binaries into your system, i.e. replace the system binaries with them, you have to run the c tar xfp command from /. . . .
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