The mac68k-specific portion of the NetBSD _VER release is found in the "mac68k" subdirectory of the distribution. That subdirectory is laid out as follows: .../NetBSD-_VER/mac68k/ SOURCE_DATE the date, in the default format produced by the date(1) command, of the source that the release was built from INSTALL these installation notes binary/ mac68k system binaries; see below. installation/ installation helper items The NetBSD/mac68k system binaries include the NetBSD/mac68k binary distribution sets, additional kernels, and security-related system binaries. The NetBSD _VER release for the mac68k port is comprised of those files found in the "mac68k/binary/sets" subdirectory of the NetBSD _VER distribution tree. There are seven system distribution sets, two kernel distribution sets, and five X distribution sets. The files in the "sets" subdirectory are as follows: CKSUMS checksums for the various files in the "sets" directory, in the default format produced by the cksum(1) command base.tgz The NetBSD/mac68k _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. [ 8.6M gzipped, 25.1M uncompressed ] comp.tgz The NetBSD/mac68k Compiler tools; all of the tools relating to C and C++. 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. [ 6.2M gzipped, 21.6M uncompressed ] etc.tgz 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.) [ 49K gzipped, 288K uncompressed ] games.tgz This set includes the games and their manual pages. [ 2.8M gzipped, 7.2M uncompressed ] kern_sbc.tgz kern.tgz The NetBSD/mac68k _VER kernel binary. You MUST install this file. It is the kernel that you need to boot the system. If you experience SCSI-related difficulties with your 68030-based system, you might want to try kern_sbc.tgz instead. [ 606K gzipped, 1.32M uncompressed ] man.tgz 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. [ 2.2M gzipped, 8.8M uncompressed ] misc.tgz 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, 7.6M uncompressed ] text.tgz This set includes NetBSD's text processing tools, including groff, all related programs, and their manual pages. [ 1.0M gzipped, 3.7M uncompressed ] xbase.tgz X clients, shared libraries, and related man pages. Also includes bitmaps and miscellaneous configuration files. [ 2.34 M gzipped, 7.46M uncompressed ] xcomp.tgz Static libraries, include files (except bitmaps), X config files (for xmkmf), and related man pages. [ 1.57M gzipped, 6.38M uncompressed ] xcontrib.tgz User-contributed X binaries (e.g. xev, xload) built from the X11 "contrib" sources with man pages and default config files. [ 178K gzipped, 661K uncompressed ] xfont.tgz X11 fonts. [ 5.66M gzipped, 6.99M uncompressed ] xserver.tgz The Xmac68k _monochrome_ server with man pages. [ 1.32M gzipped, 3.25M uncompressed ] The NetBSD/mac68k security distribution set is named "secr.tgz" and can be found in the "mac68k/binary/security" subdirectory of the NetBSD _VER distribution tree. It contains the crypt libraries (for the DES encryption algorithm) and the binaries built from the "src/domestic" portion of the NetBSD source tree 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.) [ 779K gzipped, 2.5M uncompressed ] The mac68k binary distribution sets are distributed as full .tar.gz files (with the extension .tgz because the software used to download the sets may incorrectly auto-unpack files ending in .gz and to accomodate systems which only support 3 character extensions to file names). 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 xpf" 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. Additional kernels to those included in the distribution sets may be found in the "mac68k/binary/kernels" subdirectory of the NetBSD _VER distribution tree. These kernels are generally named something like "netbsd-GENERIC.gz" or some other suitable name. Please note that these kernels are simply gzipped and are not in tar archives. A CKSUM file is included in this directory as well. The MacOS-based utilities necessary for installing and running NetBSD can be found in the "mac68k/installation/misc" subdirectory of the NetBSD _VER distribution tree. The important files in this directory are as follows: Booter.sea.hqx The NetBSD/Mac68k Booter utility. This program is used to boot the NetBSD kernel from within MacOS. [ 141 K archived ] Installer.sea.hqx The NetBSD/Mac68k Installer utility. This program is used to install the distribution sets onto your NetBSD partition(s). [ 147 K archived ] Mkfs.sea.hqx The Mkfs utility. This program is used to format your chosen partitions so that they can be used with NetBSD. [ 76 K archived ] These files are all binhexed, self-extracting archives. If you need them, the sources for these utilities are in the "src" subdirectory.