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1The sun3-specific portion of the NetBSD 1.2 release is found in the 2"sun3" subdirectory of the distribution. That subdirectory is laid 3out as follows: 4 5.../NetBSD-1.2/sun3/ 6 INSTALL.txt Installation notes; this file. 7 8 install/ Boot programs, a GENERIC kernel, 9 a stand-alone RAMDISK kernel, 10 and a miniroot filesystem image. 11 see below. 12 13 binary/ sun3 binary distribution sets; 14 see below. 15 16 security/ sun3 security distribution; 17 see below. 18 19.../sun3/install/ 20 21The NetBSD/sun3 install distribution contains files that can be 22used to install NetBSD onto a completely "bare" sun3. The files 23in the "sun3/install" directory are described below: 24 25 MakeBootTape A script for creating a boot tape using 26 the other files in this directory. 27 28 miniroot.gz A gzipped copy of the miniroot filesystem. 29 This image is to be un-gzipped and copied 30 into the swap area of a disk. 31 32 netbsd-rd.gz A gzipped copy of the "RAMDISK kernel" 33 for installing the miniroot filesystem. 34 35 netbsd-gen.gz A gzipped GENERIC kernel (for upgrade) 36 37 netboot A copy of the network boot program. 38 This is useful if you are installing 39 a diskless NetBSD/sun3 system. 40 41 tapeboot A copy of the tape boot program, used 42 as the first segment of a boot tape. 43 44These files can be used to make a boot tape suitable for installing 45NetBSD/sun3. These files can also be used to configure an NFS server 46to support installation "over the network". See the section "Getting 47the NetBSD System onto Useful Media" for instructions on either method. 48 49.../sun3/binary/ 50 51The NetBSD/sun3 binary distribution sets contain the binaries which 52comprise the NetBSD 1.2 release for the sun3. There are seven binary 53distribution sets, and the "security" distribution set. The binary 54distribution sets can be found in the "sun3/binary" subdirectory of 55the NetBSD 1.2 distribution tree, and are as follows: 56 57 base12 The NetBSD/sun3 1.2 base binary distribution. You 58 MUST install this distribution set. It contains the 59 base NetBSD utilities that are necessary for the 60 system to run and be minimally functional. It 61 includes shared library support, and excludes 62 everything described below. 63 [ 7.6M gzipped, 21.5M uncompressed ] 64 65 comp12 The NetBSD/sun3 Compiler tools. All of the tools 66 relating to C and C++. This set includes the system 67 include files (/usr/include), the linker, the compiler 68 tool chain, and the various system libraries (except 69 the shared libraries, which are included as part of the 70 base set). This set also includes the manual pages for 71 all of the utilities it contains, as well as the system 72 call and library manual pages. 73 [ 5.4M gzipped, 17.2M uncompressed ] 74 75 etc12 This distribution set contains the system configuration 76 files that reside in /etc and in several other places. 77 This set MUST be installed if you are installing the 78 system from scratch, but should NOT be used if you are 79 upgrading. (If you are upgrading, it's recommended that 80 you get a copy of this set and CAREFULLY upgrade your 81 configuration files by hand.) 82 [ 68K gzipped, 350K uncompressed ] 83 84 games12 This set includes the games and their manual pages. 85 [ 2.9M gzipped, 7.0M uncompressed ] 86 87 man12 This set includes all of the manual pages for the 88 binaries and other software contained in the base set. 89 Note that it does not include any of the manual pages 90 that are included in the other sets. 91 [ 0.9K gzipped, 3.5M uncompressed ] 92 93 misc12 This set includes the system dictionaries (which are 94 rather large), the typesettable document set, and 95 man pages for other architectures which happen to be 96 installed from the source tree by default. 97 [ 1.9M gzipped, 6.5M uncompressed ] 98 99 text12 This set includes NetBSD's text processing tools, 100 including groff, all related programs, and their 101 manual pages. 102 [ 0.8M gzipped, 2.9M uncompressed ] 103 104.../sun3/security/ 105 106The sun3 security distribution set is named "secr12" and can be found 107in the "sun3/security" subdirectory of the NetBSD 1.2 distribution 108tree. It contains executables which are built in the "src/domestic" portion 109if the NetBSD source tree. It can only be found on those sites which carry 110the complete NetBSD distribution and that can legally obtain it. (Remember, 111because of United States law, it may not be legal to distribute this set to 112locations outside of the United States and Canada.) 113[ 128K gzipped, 275K uncompressed ] 114 115The sun3 binary distribution sets are distributed as gzipped tar files. 116Each sun3 binary distribution set also has its own "CKSUMS" file, just 117as the source distribution sets do. 118 119The instructions given for extracting the source sets work equally 120well for the binary sets, but it is worth noting that if you use that 121method, the files are extracted "below" the current directory. That 122is, if you want to extract the binaries "into" your system, i.e. 123replace the system binaries with them, you have to run the command: 124 125 tar --unlink -zxvpf set.tar.gz 126 127from /. Note that the "--unlink" flags is very important! 128 129For best results, it is recommended that you follow the installation 130and/or upgrade procedures documented in this file. 131