The Atari-specific portion of the NetBSD _VER release is found in the "atari" subdirectory of the distribution. That subdirectory is laid out as follows: .../NetBSD-_VER/atari/ binary/ atari binary distribution sets; see below. floppies/ atari boot and installation floppies; see below. security/ atari security distribution; see below; utils.netbsd/ utils.tos/ Miscellaneous atari installation utilities; see installation section, below. There are three atari floppy images to be found in the "atari/floppies" subdirectory of the NetBSD _VER distribution. One of them is a bootable TOS kernel floppy and the other two are installation floppies. They are described in more detail below. There are gzipped versions of each available, for easier downloading. (The gzipped version have the ".gz" extension added to their names.) Bootable Kernel floppy: This TOS disk contains the loadbsd and chg_pid programs and a kernel. It is setup so that you can insert it int your floppy drive, and start the programs from GEM. For the TT030 and Falcon, the floppy is named boot-_SVER_S.fs and the kernel supplied is 'BOOT'. For the Hades, you need the hades-boot-_SVER_S.fs floppy. The kernel is 'HADES'. Installation floppy: This disk contains a BSD root file system setup to help you install the rest of NetBSD. This includes formatting and mounting your root and /usr partitions and getting ready to extract (and possibly first fetching) the distribution sets. There is enough on this file system to allow you to make a slip connection, configure an ethernet, mount an NFS file system or ftp. You can also load distribution sets from a SCSI tape or from one of your existing TOS partitions. These floppies are named "miniroot-_SVER_S.fs.1" and "miniroot-_SVER_S.fs.2". The NetBSD/atari binary distribution sets contain the binaries which comprise the NetBSD _VER release for the atari. There are seven binary distribution sets, and the "security" distribution set. The binary distribution sets can be found in subdirectories of the "atari/binary" subdirectory of the NetBSD _VER distribution tree, and are as follows: base The NetBSD/atari _VER base binary distribution. You MUST install this distribution set. It contains the base NetBSD utilities that are necessary for the system to run and be minimally functional. It includes shared library support, and excludes everything described below. [ 8.7M gzipped, 25.2M uncompressed ] comp The NetBSD/atari Compiler tools. All of the tools relating to C, C++, and FORTRAN (yes, there are two!). This set includes the system include files (/usr/include), the linker, the compiler tool chain, and the various system libraries (except the shared libraries, which are included as part of the base set). This set also includes the manual pages for all of the utilities it contains, as well as the system call and library manual pages. [ 6.5M gzipped, 22.9M uncompressed ] etc This distribution set contains the system configuration files that reside in /etc and in several other places. This set MUST be installed if you are installing the system from scratch, but should NOT be used if you are upgrading. (If you are upgrading, it's recommended that you get a copy of this set and CAREFULLY upgrade your configuration files by hand.) [ 52K gzipped, 320K uncompressed ] games This set includes the games and their manual pages. [ 2.8M gzipped, 7.2M uncompressed ] man This set includes all of the manual pages for the binaries and other software contained in the base set. Note that it does not include any of the manual pages that are included in the other sets. [ 2.4M gzipped, 10.0M uncompressed ] misc This set includes the system dictionaries (which are rather large), the typesettable document set, and man pages for other architectures which happen to be installed from the source tree by default. [ 2.1M gzipped, 8.1M uncompressed ] text This set includes NetBSD's text processing tools, including groff, all related programs, and their manual pages. [ 960K gzipped, 3.7M uncompressed ] The atari security distribution set is named "secr" and can be found in the "atari/security" subdirectory of the NetBSD _VER distribution tree. It contains crypt.c (the source file for the DES encryption algorithm) and the binaries which depend on it. It can only be found on those sites which carry the complete NetBSD distribution and that can legally obtain it. (Remember, because of United States law, it may not be legal to distribute this set to locations outside of the United States and Canada.) [ 740K gzipped, 2.5M uncompressed ] The atari binary distribution sets are distributed in the same form as the source distribution sets; catted together, the members of a set form a gzipped tar file. Each atari binary distribution set also has its own "CKSUMS" file, just as the source distribution sets do. The instructions given for extracting the source sets work equally well for the binary sets, but it is worth noting that if you use that method, the files are extracted "below" the current directory. That is, if you want to extract the binaries "into" your system, i.e. replace the system binaries with them, you have to run the "tar xvfp" from /. Also note that if you upgrade or install this way, those programs that you are using at the time will NOT be replaced. If you follow the normal installation or upgrade procedures, this will be taken care of for you.