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1The Atari-specific portion of the NetBSD 1.2 release is found in the
2"atari" subdirectory of the distribution.  That subdirectory is layed
3out as follows:
4
5.../NetBSD-1.2/atari/
6			binary/		atari binary distribution sets;
7					see below.
8
9			floppies/	atari boot and installation
10					floppies; see below.
11
12			security/	atari security distribution;
13					see below;
14
15			utils.netbsd/
16			utils.tos/	Miscellaneous atari
17					installation utilities; see
18					installation section, below.
19
20There are three atari floppy images to be found in the "atari/floppies"
21subdirectory of the NetBSD 1.2 distribution.  One of them is a
22bootable TOS kernel floppy and the other two are installation floppy's.
23They are described in more detail below.  There are gzipped versions
24of each available, for easier downloading.  (The gzipped version
25have the ".gz" extension added to their names.)
26
27Bootable Kernel floppy:
28
29	This TOS disk contains the loadbsd and chg_part programs
30	and the BOOT kernel.  It is setup so that you can insert it
31	int your floppy drive, and start the programs from GEM.
32
33	This floppy is named boot-12.fs
34
35Installation floppy:
36
37	This disk contains a BSD root file system setup to help
38	you install the rest of NetBSD.  This includes formatting
39	and mounting your root and /usr partitions and getting
40	ready to extract (and possibly first fetching) the distribution
41	sets.  There is enough on this file system to allow you to
42	make a slip connection, configure an ethernet, mount an NFS
43	file system or ftp.  You can also load distribution sets from
44	a SCSI tape or from one of your existing TOS partitions.
45
46	This floppy's are named "miniroot-12.fs.1" and "miniroot-12.fs.2".
47
48The NetBSD/atari binary distribution sets contain the binaries which
49comprise the NetBSD 1.2 release for the atari.  There are seven binary
50distribution sets, and the "security" distribution set.  The binary
51distribution sets can be found in subdirectories of the "atari/binary"
52subdirectory of the NetBSD 1.2 distribution tree, and are as follows:
53
54	base12	The NetBSD/atari 1.2 base binary distribution.  You
55		MUST install this distribution set.  It contains the
56		base NetBSD utilities that are necessary for the
57		system to run and be minimally functional.  It
58		includes shared library support, and excludes
59		everything described below.
60		[ 8M gzipped, 22M uncompressed ]
61
62	comp12	The NetBSD/atari Compiler tools.  All of the tools
63		relating to C, C++, and FORTRAN (yes, there are two!).
64		This set includes the system include files
65		(/usr/include), the linker, the compiler tool chain,
66		and the various system libraries (except the shared
67		libraries, which are included as part of the base
68		set).  This set also includes the manual pages for all
69		of the utilities it contains, as well as the system
70		call and library manual pages.
71		[ 5M gzipped, 18M uncompressed ]
72
73	etc12	This distribution set contains the system
74		configuration files that reside in /etc and in several
75		other places.  This set MUST be installed if you are
76		installing the system from scratch, but should NOT be
77		used if you are upgrading.  (If you are upgrading,
78		it's recommended that you get a copy of this set and
79		CAREFULLY upgrade your configuration files by hand.)
80		[ 70K gzipped, 360K uncompressed ]
81
82	games12	This set includes the games and their manual pages.
83		[ 3M gzipped, 7M uncompressed ]
84
85	man12	This set includes all of the manual pages for the
86		binaries and other software contained in the base set.
87		Note that it does not include any of the manual pages
88		that are included in the other sets.
89		[ 900K gzipped, 4M uncompressed ]
90
91	misc12	This set includes the system dictionaries (which are
92		rather large), the typesettable document set, and
93		man pages for other architectures which happen to be
94		installed from the source tree by default.
95		[ 2M gzipped, 7M uncompressed ]
96
97	text12	This set includes NetBSD's text processing tools,
98		including groff, all related programs, and their
99		manual pages.
100		[ 784K gzipped, 3M uncompressed ]
101
102The atari security distribution set is named "secr12" and can be found
103in the "atari/security" subdirectory of the NetBSD 1.2 distribution
104tree.  It contains crypt.c (the source file for the DES encryption
105algorithm) and the binaries which depend on it.  It can only be found
106on those sites which carry the complete NetBSD distribution and that
107can legally obtain it.  (Remember, because of United States law, this
108distribution set may not be exported to locations outside of the
109United States and Canada.)  [ 119K gzipped, 300K uncompressed ]
110
111The atari binary distribution sets are distributed in the same form as
112the source distribution sets; catted together, the members of a set
113form a gzipped tar file.  Each atari binary distribution set also has
114its own "CKSUMS" file, just as the source distribution sets do.
115
116The instructions given for extracting the source sets work equally
117well for the binary sets, but it is worth noting that if you use that
118method, the files are extracted "below" the current directory.  That
119is, if you want to extract the binaries "into" your system, i.e.
120replace the system binaries with them, you have to run the "tar xvfp"
121from /.  Also note that if you upgrade or install this way, those
122programs that you are using at the time will NOT be replaced.  If you
123follow the normal installation or upgrade procedures, this will be
124taken care of for you.
125