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Partial upgrade of document to describe the interim SSTO floppies. I 

haven't renamed 1.2 to 1.2D everywhere since thats transient anyway...
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installation section, below.
There are four i386 floppy images to be found in the "i386/floppy"
subdirectory of the NetBSD 1.2 distribution. Two of them are bootable
kernel-copy floppies, one is an installation floppy, and one is an
upgrade floppy. They are all described in more detail below. There
are gzipped versions of each available, for easier downloading. (The
gzipped versions have the ".gz" extension added to their names.)
subdirectory of the NetBSD 1.2 distribution. All are bootable. Two of
them are installation floppies, two are upgrade floppies. They are
all described in more detail below. There are gzipped versions of
each available, for easier downloading. (The gzipped versions have
the ".gz" extension added to their names.)
Bootable Kernel-copy floppies:
Bootable installation floppies:
These disks contain file systems, are bootable, and have
enough utilities on board to copy a new kernel to your hard
disk once you have it partitioned for NetBSD. They make
upgrading to a new kernel easy, because all you have to do is
get a new kernel-copy floppy with a new kernel, boot from it,
and confirm that you want to have the kernel copied to your
disk.
These disks are bootable, and contain the software necessary
to prepare your hard drive for NetBSD and install the NetBSD
distribution.
There are two different kernel copy floppy images,
"kcadp12.fs", and "kcoth12.fs". They are identical except
that the kcadp floppy has the drivers for the supported Adaptec SCSI
controllers -- the Adaptec 1520, 1522, 1540, 1542, 1740, 1742, 1744,
and 2940 SCSI host adapters and the AIC6x60 and AIC7870 chips on
motherboards or other brands of SCSI controllers -- and does not
contain the drivers for any other SCSI host adapters, which
are in the kernel on the kcoth floppy. (The kernels on the install
disks are otherwise identical.)
Unlike previous NetBSD releases, there is no seperate "kernel
copy" floppy. Instead, the install floppy contains only a
special compressed kernel with a built in ramdisk image of the
installation file system.
Please note that because of space considerations the kernel
copy floppies no longer contain drivers that are not needed
during installation -- in particular, no drivers needed to run
the X Window System are available in these kernels. It is
recommended that you configure a custom kernel following
installation.
Because the kernel on the installation disks is not suitable
for use beyond initial installation and configuration, a
"generic" kernel, named "GENERIC.gz", has been placed in the
binaries directory. This kernel is intended to run your system
while you build a custom kernel. It is strongly encouraged
that you build a custom kernel for your installation rather
than use the prebuilt generic kernel on a long term basis.
For those that cannot configure a custom kernel, two "generic"
kernel images, named "netbsd-adp.gz" and "netbsd-oth.gz", have
been placed in the binaries directory. These are identical
except that "netbsd-adp.gz" contains support for Adaptec SCSI
controllers, but no other SCSI controllers, and
"netbsd-oth.gz" contains support only for SCSI controllers
other than the Adaptec. (These are similar in nature to the
kernels on the kernel copy floppies but with additional device
support.) It is strongly encouraged that you build a custom
kernel for your installation rather than use a prebuilt generic
kernel.
Please note that because of space considerations the kernels
booted from the installation floppies do not contain drivers
that are not needed during installation -- in particular, no
drivers needed to run the X Window System are available in
these kernels.
Installation floppy:
The "inst12D.fs" floppy is the installation floppy that should
be used by most users. The "insts12D.fs" "small install"
floppy contains a "small" installation kernel lacking some
space intensive and lesser used drivers, especially the driver
for the Western Digital WD7000 SCSI controller. The "small
install" floppies are suitable for use on machines with four
megabytes of memory, which will not boot the "inst12D.fs"
floppy. If you have more than four megabytes of memory, you
will probably be better off with the "inst12D.fs" floppy.
This disk contains the software necessary to prepare your hard
drive for NetBSD and install the NetBSD distribution. It is
not bootable, and must be used in conjunction with one of the
kernel-copy floppies. This floppy is named "inst-12.fs".
Bootable upgrade floppies:
Upgrade floppy:
These disks contains the software to be used in upgrading the
system from a previous version of NetBSD. They are bootable,
and are otherwise nearly identical in description to the
installation floppies described above.
This disk contains the software to be used in upgrading the
system from a previous version of NetBSD. It is not bootable,
and must be used in conjunction with one of the kernel-copy
floppies. This floppy is named "upgr12.fs"
The NetBSD/i386 binary distribution sets contain the binaries which
comprise the NetBSD 1.2 release for the i386. There are seven binary
distribution sets, and the "security" distribution set. The binary
distribution sets can be found in subdirectories of the "i386/binary"
subdirectory of the NetBSD 1.2 distribution tree, and are as follows:
distribution sets, the "security" distribution set, and a GENERIC
kernel. The binary distribution sets can be found in subdirectories
of the "i386/binary" subdirectory of the NetBSD 1.2 distribution tree,
and are as follows:
Kernels This set contains a NetBSD/i386 1.2D GENERIC kernel,
named "GENERIC", which must be copied to the hard
drive as /netbsd during installation.
[ .8M gzipped, 1.7M uncompressed ]
base12 The NetBSD/i386 1.2 base binary distribution. You
MUST install this distribution set. It contains the
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manual pages.
[ 0.8M gzipped, 2.9M uncompressed ]
The i386 security distribution set is named "secr12" and can be found
in the "i386/security" subdirectory of the NetBSD 1.2 distribution
tree. It contains crypt.c (the source file for the DES encryption
@ -141,8 +137,7 @@ DES encryption program. You do not need this distribution set to use
encrypted passwords in your password file; the "base12" distribution
includes a crypt library which can perform only the decryption function.
The security distribution also includes a version of the Kerberos IV
network security system, and Kerberized versions of the "telnet" and
"tn3270" programs.
network security system, and a Kerberized version of the "telnet" program.
The "secr12" distribution set can be found only on those sites which
carry the complete NetBSD distribution and which can legally obtain it.
(Remember, because of United States law, this distribution set may not be