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1The sparc-specific portion of the NetBSD _VER release is found in the 2"sparc" subdirectory of the distribution. That subdirectory is laid 3out as follows: 4 5.../NetBSD-_VER/sparc/ 6 7 INSTALL Installation notes (this file); 8 9 binary/ 10 sets/ sparc binary distribution sets; 11 see below; 12 13 security/ sparc security distribution; 14 see below; 15 16 kernel/ Base GENERIC kernels; 17 18 installation/ 19 20 miniroot/ sparc miniroot boot-image; 21 22 23 netboot/ server boot-file image for diskless 24 machines. 25 26 27The NetBSD/sparc binary distribution sets contain the binaries which 28comprise the NetBSD _VER release for the sparc. There are seven binary 29distribution sets, and the "security" distribution set. The binary 30distribution sets can be found in subdirectories of the "sparc/binary" 31subdirectory of the NetBSD _VER distribution tree, and are as follows: 32 33 base The NetBSD/sparc _VER base binary distribution. You 34 MUST install this distribution set. It contains the 35 base NetBSD utilities that are necessary for the 36 system to run and be minimally functional. It 37 includes shared library support, and excludes 38 everything described below. 39 [ 10.4M gzipped, 31.3M uncompressed ] 40 41 comp The NetBSD/sparc Compiler tools. All of the tools 42 relating to C, C++, and FORTRAN (yes, there are two!). 43 This set includes the system include files 44 (/usr/include), the linker, the compiler tool chain, 45 and the various system libraries (except the shared 46 libraries, which are included as part of the base 47 set). This set also includes the manual pages for all 48 of the utilities it contains, as well as the system 49 call and library manual pages. 50 [ 7.9M gzipped, 28.0M uncompressed ] 51 52 etc This distribution set contains the system 53 configuration files that reside in /etc and in several 54 other places. This set MUST be installed if you are 55 installing the system from scratch, but should NOT be 56 used if you are upgrading. (If you are upgrading, 57 it's recommended that you get a copy of this set and 58 CAREFULLY upgrade your configuration files by hand.) 59 [ 57K gzipped, 348K uncompressed ] 60 61 games This set includes the games and their manual pages. 62 [ 3.1M gzipped, 7.8M uncompressed ] 63 64 man This set includes all of the manual pages for the 65 binaries and other software contained in the base set. 66 Note that it does not include any of the manual pages 67 that are included in the other sets. 68 [ 2.5M gzipped, 10.4M uncompressed ] 69 70 misc This set includes the system dictionaries (which are 71 rather large), the typesettable document set, and 72 man pages for other architectures which happen to be 73 installed from the source tree by default. 74 [ 2.2M gzipped, 8.6M uncompressed ] 75 76 text This set includes NetBSD's text processing tools, 77 including groff, all related programs, and their 78 manual pages. 79 [ 1.0M gzipped, 4.0M uncompressed ] 80 81 xbase This set includes X11R6.3 programs, libraries and manual 82 pages. 83 [ 2.8M gzipped, 8.8M uncompressed ] 84 85 xcomp This set includes X11R6.3 header files, static libraries 86 and manual pages needed to compile X Windows programs. 87 [ 1.8M gzipped, 7.7M uncompressed ] 88 89 xcontrib This set is the X11R6.3 contributed software collection, 90 made up from programs in the contrib distribution. 91 [ 0.2M gzipped, 0.7M uncompressed ] 92 93 xfont This set contains the X11R6.3 fonts. 94 [ 5.9M gzipped, 7.3M uncompressed ] 95 96 xserver This set contains X Windows server programs and accompanying 97 manual pages. 98 [ 3.3M gzipped, 8.7M uncompressed ] 99 100 101The sparc security distribution set is named "secr" and can be found 102in the "sparc/security" subdirectory of the NetBSD _VER distribution 103tree. It contains crypt.c (the source file for the DES encryption 104algorithm) and the binaries which depend on it. It can only be found 105on those sites which carry the complete NetBSD distribution and that 106can legally obtain it. (Remember, because of United States law, it 107may not be legal to distribute this set to locations outside of the 108United States and Canada.) [ 127K gzipped, 337K uncompressed ] 109 110The sparc binary distribution sets are distributed in the same form as 111the source distribution sets; catted together, the members of a set 112form a gzipped tar file. Each sparc binary distribution set also has 113its own "CKSUMS" file, just as the source distribution sets do. The 114binary sets are "rooted" at /, that is, if you want to extract the 115binaries "into" your system, i.e. replace the system binaries with 116them, you have to run the "tar xfp" from /. Also note that if you 117upgrade or install this way, those programs that you are using at the 118time will NOT be replaced. If you follow the normal installation or 119upgrade procedures, this will be taken care of for you. 120 121Note the distribution cannot be extracted using the SunOS "tar" program so 122SunOS statically-linked versions of gzip (GNU gzip) and gtar (GNU tar) 123are provided in `sparc/installation/misc'. 124