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1 $NetBSD: contents,v 1.7 1998/01/09 18:47:31 perry Exp $ 2 3The sun3-specific portion of the NetBSD _VER release is found in the 4"sun3" subdirectory of the distribution. That subdirectory is laid 5out as follows: 6 7.../NetBSD-_VER/sun3/ 8 INSTALL Installation notes; this file. 9 10 installation/ 11 miniroot/ sun3 miniroot image 12 netboot/ sun3 network boot support 13 tapeimage/ sun3 boot tape support 14 15 binary/ 16 kernel/ sun3 kernels 17 sets/ sun3 binary distribution sets 18 security/ sun3 security distribution 19 20Detailed content descriptions by directory: 21 22.../sun3/installation/ 23 24Files and scripts used during installation. This distribution 25supports installation of NetBSD/sun3 onto a sun3 with no previous 26operating system, with initial boot from network or tape. See 27"Getting the NetBSD System onto Useful Media" for instructions 28on either method. 29 30.../sun3/installation/miniroot/ 31 32 miniroot.gz A gzipped copy of the miniroot filesystem. 33 This image is to be un-gzipped and copied 34 into the swap area of a disk. 35 36.../sun3/installation/netboot/ 37 38 netboot A copy of the network boot program. 39 This is useful if you are installing 40 a diskless NetBSD/sun3 system. 41 42.../sun3/installation/tapeboot/ 43 44 MakeBootTape A script for creating the boot tape. 45 46 MakeInstTape A script for creating the install tape. 47 48 tapeboot A copy of the tape boot program, used 49 as the first segment of a boot tape. 50 51.../sun3/binary/kernel/ 52 53 netbsd-gen.gz A gzipped GENERIC kernel (for upgrade) 54 55 netbsd-rd.gz A gzipped copy of the "RAMDISK kernel" 56 for installing the miniroot filesystem. 57 58.../sun3/binary/sets/ 59 60The NetBSD/sun3 binary distribution sets contain the binaries which 61comprise the NetBSD _VER release for the sun3. There are seven binary 62distribution sets and the "security" distribution set. The binary 63distribution sets can be found in the "sun3/binary/sets" subdirectory 64of the NetBSD _VER distribution tree, and are as follows: 65 66 base The NetBSD/sun3 _VER base binary distribution. You 67 MUST install this distribution set. It contains the 68 base NetBSD utilities that are necessary for the 69 system to run and be minimally functional. It 70 includes shared library support, and excludes 71 everything described below. 72 [ 9M gzipped, 26M uncompressed ] 73 74 comp The NetBSD/sun3 Compiler tools. All of the tools 75 relating to C, C++, and FORTRAN (yes, there are two!). 76 This set includes the system include files 77 (/usr/include), the linker, the compiler tool chain, 78 and the various system libraries (except the shared 79 libraries, which are included as part of the base 80 set). This set also includes the manual pages for all 81 of the utilities it contains, as well as the system 82 call and library manual pages. 83 [ 7M gzipped, 24M uncompressed ] 84 85 etc This distribution set contains the system configuration 86 files that reside in /etc and in several other places. 87 This set MUST be installed if you are installing the 88 system from scratch, but should NOT be used if you are 89 upgrading. (If you are upgrading, it's recommended that 90 you get a copy of this set and CAREFULLY upgrade your 91 configuration files by hand.) 92 [ 54K gzipped, 330K uncompressed ] 93 94 games This set includes the games and their manual pages. 95 [ 3M gzipped, 7M uncompressed ] 96 97 man This set includes all of the manual pages for the 98 binaries and other software contained in the base set. 99 Note that it does not include any of the manual pages 100 that are included in the other sets. 101 [ 3M gzipped, 10M uncompressed ] 102 103 misc This set includes the system dictionaries (which are 104 rather large), the typesettable document set, and 105 man pages for other architectures which happen to be 106 installed from the source tree by default. 107 [ 2M gzipped, 8M uncompressed ] 108 109 text This set includes NetBSD's text processing tools, 110 including groff, all related programs, and their 111 manual pages. 112 [ 1M gzipped, 4M uncompressed ] 113 114.../sun3/binary/security/ 115 116Contains executables which are built from the "src/domestic" 117portion if the NetBSD source tree. It can only be found on those 118sites which carry the complete NetBSD distribution and that can 119legally obtain it. (Remember, because of United States law, it 120may not be legal to distribute this set to locations outside of 121the United States and Canada.) 122 [ 128K gzipped, 275K uncompressed ] 123 124The sun3 binary distribution sets are distributed as gzipped tar files 125named with the extension ".tgz", e.g. "base.tgz". Each sun3 binary 126distribution set also has its own checksum files, just as the source 127distribution sets do. 128 129The instructions given for extracting the source sets work equally 130well for the binary sets, but it is worth noting that if you use that 131method, the files are extracted "below" the current directory. That 132is, if you want to extract the binaries "into" your system, i.e. 133replace the system binaries with them, you have to run the commands: 134 135 cd / 136 tar --unlink -zxvpf set.tar.gz 137 138Note that the "--unlink" flags is very important! If you upgrade or 139install this way, those programs that you are using at the time will 140NOT be replaced unless you run "tar" with the "--unlink" option. If 141you follow the normal installation or upgrade procedures, this will be 142taken care of for you. 143