$NetBSD: contents,v 1.11 1998/01/28 10:38:10 is Exp $ The Amiga-specific portion of the NetBSD _VER release is found in the "amiga" subdirectory of the distribution. That subdirectory is laid out as follows: .../NetBSD-_VER/amiga/ INSTALL Installation notes; this file. binary/ kernel/ The GENERIC kernel. sets/ Amiga binary distribution sets; see below. Split/ .tgz files split for loading onto floppies. security/ Amiga security distribution; see below; installation/ miniroot/ Amiga miniroot file system image; see below. misc/ Miscellaneous Amiga installation utilities; see installation section, below. The Amiga now uses a single miniroot filesystem for both an initial installation and for an upgrade. A gzipped version is available, for easier downloading. (The gzipped version have the ".gz" extension added to their names.) Miniroot file system: This file contains a BSD root file system setup to help you install the rest of NetBSD or to upgrade a previous version 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 or PPP 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 AmigaDOS partitions. This file is named "miniroot.fs". The NetBSD/Amiga binary distribution sets contain the binaries which comprise the NetBSD _VER release for the Amiga. There are seven standard binary distribution sets, 5 X11 distribution sets, and the "security" distribution set. The standard and X11 binary distribution sets can be found in the "amiga/binary/sets" subdirectory of the NetBSD _VER distribution tree, and are as follows: base The NetBSD/Amiga _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/Amiga Compiler tools. All of the tools relating to C, C++, Objective C, and FORTRAN (yes, there are two, although NO FORTRAN compiler!). 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 ] xbase The basic files needed for a complete X client environment. This does not include the X servers. [ 2.4M gzipped, 7.4M uncompressed ] xcomp The extra libraries and include files needed to compile X source code. [ 1.6M gzipped, 6.7M uncompressed ] xcontrib Programs that were contributed to X. [ 178k gzipped, 670k uncompressed ] xfont Fonts needed by X. [ 5.7M gzipped, 7M uncompressed ] xserver Amiga X servers. [ 1.5M gzipped, 3.7M unzipped ] The Amiga security distribution set is named "secr" and can be found in the "amiga/binary/security" subdirectory of the NetBSD _VER distribution tree. It contains security related binaries which depend on cryptographic source code. You do not need this distribution set to use encrypted passwords in your password file; the "base" distribution includes a crypt library which can perform only the decryption function. The security distribution includes a version of the Kerberos IV network security system, and a Kerberized version of the "telnet" program. The "secr" 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, it may not be legal to distribute this set to locations outside of the United States and Canada.) [ 798K gzipped, 2.4M uncompressed ] The Amiga binary distribution sets are distributed as gzipped tar files named with the extension ".tgz", e.g. "base.tgz". They are also available in split form -- catted together, the members of a split set form a gzipped tar file. Each Amiga binary distribution set also has its own checksum files, 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 xfp" from /. Also note that if you upgrade or install this way, those programs that you are using at the time will NOT be replaced unless you run "tar" with the "--unlink" option. If you follow the normal installation or upgrade procedures, this will be taken care of for you.