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1 $NetBSD: contents,v 1.8 1999/01/25 23:34:24 garbled Exp $ 2 3The x68k-specific portion of the NetBSD _VER release is found in the 4"x68k" subdirectory of the distribution. That subdirectory is laid 5out as follows: 6 7.../NetBSD-_VER/x68k/ 8 INSTALL Installation notes; this file. 9 10 binary/sets/ x68k binary distribution sets; 11 see below. 12 13 floppies/ x68k boot and installation 14 floppy; see below. 15 16 utils/ installation utilities which 17 runs on Human68k. 18 19There is a floppy image in the "x68k/floppies" subdirectory of the 20NetBSD _VER distribution, called "boot.fs". This can be used for both 21installing NetBSD/x68k for the first time, and upgrading it from the 22previous release. There is also gzipped version of this floppy (named 23with ".fs.gz") available. 24 25The NetBSD/x68k binary distribution sets contain the binaries which 26comprise the NetBSD _VER release for the x68k. There are eight binary 27distribution sets. The binary distribution sets can be found in the 28"x68k/binary/sets" subdirectory of the NetBSD _VER distribution tree, 29and are as follows: 30 31 base The NetBSD/x68k _VER base binary distribution. You 32 MUST install this distribution set. It contains the 33 base NetBSD utilities that are necessary for the 34 system to run and be minimally functional. It 35 includes shared library support, and excludes 36 everything described below. 37 [ 8.7M gzipped, 25.2M uncompressed ] 38 39 comp The NetBSD/x68k Compiler tools. All of the tools 40 relating to C, C++, Objective C, and FORTRAN (yes, 41 there are two, although NO FORTRAN compiler!). 42 This set includes the system include files 43 (/usr/include), the linker, the compiler tool chain, 44 and the various system libraries (except the shared 45 libraries, which are included as part of the base 46 set). This set also includes the manual pages for all 47 of the utilities it contains, as well as the system 48 call and library manual pages. 49 [ 6.5M gzipped, 22.8M uncompressed ] 50 51 etc This distribution set contains the system 52 configuration files that reside in /etc and in several 53 other places. This set MUST be installed if you are 54 installing the system from scratch, but should NOT be 55 used if you are upgrading. (If you are upgrading, 56 it's recommended that you get a copy of this set and 57 CAREFULLY upgrade your configuration files by hand.) 58 [ 53K gzipped, 330K uncompressed ] 59 60 games This set includes the games and their manual pages. 61 [ 2.8M gzipped, 7.0M uncompressed ] 62 63 kern This set contains a NetBSD/x68k _VER ALL kernel, 64 named "/netbsd". You MUST install this distribution 65 set. 66 [ 640K gzipped, 1.4M uncompressed ] 67 68 man This set includes all of the manual pages for the 69 binaries and other software contained in the base set. 70 Note that it does not include any of the manual pages 71 that are included in the other sets. 72 [ 2.4M gzipped, 9.8M uncompressed ] 73 74 misc This set includes the system dictionaries (which are 75 rather large), the typesettable document set, and 76 man pages for other architectures which happen to be 77 installed from the source tree by default. 78 [ 2.1M gzipped, 8.2M uncompressed ] 79 80 text This set includes NetBSD's text processing tools, 81 including groff, all related programs, and their 82 manual pages. 83 [ 1.0M gzipped, 3.7M uncompressed ] 84 85 86IMPORTANT: In previous versions of NetBSD, the kernel from the install 87floppy was copied onto the hard drive in a special step. In the new 88install system, the kernel on the floppy is unsuited to being copied 89onto the hard drive. Instead, a new set, "kern", has been added which 90contains a generic kernel to be unloaded onto the drive. It must be 91extracted in order to have a minimally functioning system. 92 93For other platform, there is a security distribution named "secr" 94provided. The x68k security distribution is not provided in the 95binary form. 96 97The x68k binary distribution sets are distributed as gzipped tar files 98named with the extension ".tgz", e.g. "base.tgz". 99 100The instructions given for extracting the source sets work equally 101well for the binary sets, but it is worth noting that if you use that 102method, the files are extracted "below" the current directory. That 103is, if you want to extract the binaries "into" your system, i.e. 104replace the system binaries with them, you have to run the "tar xpf" 105from /. 106