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1 $NetBSD: contents,v 1.13 1998/01/28 10:38:15 is Exp $ 2 3The sparc-specific portion of the NetBSD _VER release is found in the 4"sparc" subdirectory of the distribution. That subdirectory is laid 5out as follows: 6 7.../NetBSD-_VER/sparc/ 8 9 INSTALL Installation notes (this file); 10 11 binary/ 12 sets/ sparc binary distribution sets; 13 see below; 14 15 security/ sparc security distribution; 16 see below; 17 18 kernel/ Base GENERIC kernels; 19 20 installation/ 21 22 miniroot/ sparc miniroot boot-image; 23 24 25 netboot/ server boot-file image for diskless 26 machines. 27 28 29The NetBSD/sparc binary distribution sets contain the binaries which 30comprise the NetBSD _VER release for the sparc. There are seven binary 31distribution sets, and the "security" distribution set. The binary 32distribution sets can be found in subdirectories of the "sparc/binary" 33subdirectory of the NetBSD _VER distribution tree, and are as follows: 34 35 base The NetBSD/sparc _VER base binary distribution. You 36 MUST install this distribution set. It contains the 37 base NetBSD utilities that are necessary for the 38 system to run and be minimally functional. It 39 includes shared library support, and excludes 40 everything described below. 41 [ 10.4M gzipped, 31.3M uncompressed ] 42 43 comp The NetBSD/sparc Compiler tools. All of the tools 44 relating to C, C++, Objective C, and FORTRAN (yes, 45 there are two, although NO FORTRAN compiler!). 46 This set includes the system include files 47 (/usr/include), the linker, the compiler tool chain, 48 and the various system libraries (except the shared 49 libraries, which are included as part of the base 50 set). This set also includes the manual pages for all 51 of the utilities it contains, as well as the system 52 call and library manual pages. 53 [ 7.9M gzipped, 28.0M uncompressed ] 54 55 etc This distribution set contains the system 56 configuration files that reside in /etc and in several 57 other places. This set MUST be installed if you are 58 installing the system from scratch, but should NOT be 59 used if you are upgrading. (If you are upgrading, 60 it's recommended that you get a copy of this set and 61 CAREFULLY upgrade your configuration files by hand.) 62 [ 57K gzipped, 348K uncompressed ] 63 64 games This set includes the games and their manual pages. 65 [ 3.1M gzipped, 7.8M uncompressed ] 66 67 man This set includes all of the manual pages for the 68 binaries and other software contained in the base set. 69 Note that it does not include any of the manual pages 70 that are included in the other sets. 71 [ 2.5M gzipped, 10.4M uncompressed ] 72 73 misc This set includes the system dictionaries (which are 74 rather large), the typesettable document set, and 75 man pages for other architectures which happen to be 76 installed from the source tree by default. 77 [ 2.2M gzipped, 8.6M uncompressed ] 78 79 text This set includes NetBSD's text processing tools, 80 including groff, all related programs, and their 81 manual pages. 82 [ 1.0M gzipped, 4.0M uncompressed ] 83 84 xbase This set includes X11R6.3 programs, libraries and manual 85 pages. 86 [ 2.8M gzipped, 8.8M uncompressed ] 87 88 xcomp This set includes X11R6.3 header files, static libraries 89 and manual pages needed to compile X Windows programs. 90 [ 1.8M gzipped, 7.7M uncompressed ] 91 92 xcontrib This set is the X11R6.3 contributed software collection, 93 made up from programs in the contrib distribution. 94 [ 0.2M gzipped, 0.7M uncompressed ] 95 96 xfont This set contains the X11R6.3 fonts. 97 [ 5.9M gzipped, 7.3M uncompressed ] 98 99 xserver This set contains X Windows server programs and accompanying 100 manual pages. 101 [ 3.3M gzipped, 8.7M uncompressed ] 102 103 104The sparc security distribution set is named "secr" and can be found 105in the "sparc/security" subdirectory of the NetBSD _VER distribution 106tree. It contains crypt.c (the source file for the DES encryption 107algorithm) and the binaries which depend on it. It can only be found 108on those sites which carry the complete NetBSD distribution and that 109can legally obtain it. (Remember, because of United States law, it 110may not be legal to distribute this set to locations outside of the 111United States and Canada.) [ 127K gzipped, 337K uncompressed ] 112 113The sparc binary distribution sets are distributed in the same form as 114the source distribution sets; catted together, the members of a set 115form a gzipped tar file. Each sparc binary distribution set also has 116its own "CKSUMS" file, just as the source distribution sets do. The 117binary sets are "rooted" at /, that is, if you want to extract the 118binaries "into" your system, i.e. replace the system binaries with 119them, you have to run the "tar xfp" from /. Also note that if you 120upgrade or install this way, those programs that you are using at the 121time will NOT be replaced. If you follow the normal installation or 122upgrade procedures, this will be taken care of for you. 123 124Note the distribution cannot be extracted using the SunOS "tar" program so 125SunOS statically-linked versions of gzip (GNU gzip) and gtar (GNU tar) 126are provided in `sparc/installation/misc'. 127