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+The alpha-specific portion of the OpenBSD 2.1 release is found in the
+"alpha" subdirectory of the distribution.  That subdirectory is laid
+out as follows:
+
+.../2.1/alpha/
+		INSTALL.alpha	Installation notes; this file.
+
+		floppy.fs	The alpha boot and installation
+				floppy; see below.
+
+		*.gz		alpha binary distribution sets;
+				see below.
+
+		bsd		A stock GENERIC alpha kernel which
+				will be installed on your system
+				during the install.
+
+In summary, there is one alpha floppy image called "floppy.fs".  This
+is a bootable install floppy which can be used both to install and to
+upgrade OpenBSD to the current version.  It is also useful for maintenance
+and disaster recovery.
+
+Bootable installation/upgrade floppy:
+
+	This disk contains a file system, is bootable, and has
+	enough utilities on board to prepare your hard disk drive
+	for OpenBSD and to install the OpenBSD distribution.
+
+	It also holds the utilities needed in order to upgrade a
+	system to the current version of OpenBSD.
+
+The OpenBSD/alpha binary distribution sets contain the binaries which
+comprise the OpenBSD 2.1 release for the alpha.  There are seven binary
+distribution sets.  The binary distribution sets can be found in
+subdirectories of the "alpha/bins" subdirectory of the OpenBSD 2.1
+distribution tree, and are as follows:
+
+	base21	The OpenBSD/alpha 2.1 base binary distribution.  You
+		MUST install this distribution set.  It contains the
+		base OpenBSD utilities that are necessary for the
+		system to run and be minimally functional.  It
+		includes shared library support, and excludes
+		everything described below.
+		[ 39M gzipped, 109.7M uncompressed ]
+
+	comp21	The OpenBSD/alpha 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.
+		[ 14.5M gzipped, 52.7M uncompressed ]
+
+	etc21	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.)
+		[ 89K gzipped, 448K uncompressed ]
+
+	game21	This set includes the games and their manual pages.
+		[ 5.0M gzipped, 15.5M uncompressed ]
+
+	man21	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, 8.9M uncompressed ]
+
+	misc21	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.
+		[ 1.7M gzipped, 5.9M uncompressed ]
+
+	text21	This set includes OpenBSD's text processing tools,
+		including groff, all related programs, and their
+		manual pages.
+		[ 2.3M gzipped, 8.4M uncompressed ]
+
+The alpha binary distribution sets are distributed in the same form
+as the source distribution sets; that is, the members of a set form
+a gzipped tar file which is assumed to be relative to the root of a
+system's directory tree.  In other words, all sets files should be
+extracted from '/'.  The instructions given for extracting the source
+sets work equally well for the binary sets.