The amiga-specific portion of the NetBSD 1.1 release is found in the "amiga" subdirectory of the distribution. That subdirectory is layed out as follows: .../NetBSD-1.1/amiga/ binary/ amiga binary distribution sets; see below. floppies/ amiga installation and upgrade >>> ^^^^^^^^ should this be miniroot/? file system images; see below. security/ amiga security distribution; see below; utils/ Miscellaneous amiga installation utilities; see installation section, below. There are two amiga file system images to be found in the "amiga/floppy" >>> ^^^^^^ subdirectory of the NetBSD 1.1 distribution. One of them is a upgrade image and one is an installation image. 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.) Installation file system: This file 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 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 "inst-11.fs". Upgrade file system: This file contains a BSD root file system setup to help you upgrade a previous version of NetBSD. This includes converting existing partitions 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, from one of your existing AmigaDOS partitions, or from an existing NetBSD partition. This file is named "inst-11.fs". The NetBSD/amiga binary distribution sets contain the binaries which comprise the NetBSD 1.1 release for the amiga. There are seven binary distribution sets, and the "security" distribution set. The binary distribution sets can be found in subdirectories of the "amiga/binary" subdirectory of the NetBSD 1.1 distribution tree, and are as follows: base11 The NetBSD/amiga 1.1 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. [ 7M gzipped, 19M uncompressed ] >>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ comp11 The NetBSD/amiga 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. [ 4M gzipped, 12M uncompressed ] >>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ etc11 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.) [ 50K gzipped, 280K uncompressed ] >>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ games11 This set includes the games and their manual pages. [ 1M gzipped, 3M uncompressed ] >>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ man11 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. [ 730K gzipped, 3M uncompressed ] >>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ misc11 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. [ 2M gzipped, 6M uncompressed ] >>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ text11 This set includes NetBSD's text processing tools, including groff, all related programs, and their manual pages. [ 784K gzipped, 3M uncompressed ] >>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The amiga security distribution set is named "secr11" and can be found in the "amiga/security" subdirectory of the NetBSD 1.1 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, this distribution set may not be exported to locations outside of the United States and Canada.) [ 119K gzipped, 300K uncompressed ] >>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The amiga 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 amiga 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.