The i386-specific portion of the OpenBSD 2.0 release is found in the "i386" subdirectory of the distribution. That subdirectory is laid out as follows: .../2.0/i386/ INSTALL.i386 Installation notes; this file. bins/ i386 binary distribution sets; see below. floppies/ i386 boot and installation floppies; see below. utils/ Miscellaneous i386 installation utilities; see installation section, below. There are four i386 floppy images to be found in the "i386/floppy" subdirectory of the OpenBSD 2.0 distribution. Two of them are bootable kernel-copy floppies, one is an installation floppy, and one is an upgrade floppy. They are all described in more detail below. There are gzipped versions of each available, for easier downloading. (The gzipped versions have the ".gz" extension added to their names.) Bootable Kernel-copy floppies: These disks contain file systems, are bootable, and have enough utilities on board to copy a new kernel to your hard disk once you have it partitioned for OpenBSD. They make upgrading to a new kernel easy, because all you have to do is get a new kernel-copy floppy with a new kernel, boot from it, and confirm that you want to have the kernel copied to your disk. Please note that because of space considerations the kernel copy floppies no longer contain drivers that are not needed during installation -- in particular, no drivers needed to run the X Window System are available in these kernels. It is recommended that you configure a custom kernel following installation. For those that cannot configure a custom kernel, a "generic" kernel image, named "bsd.gz" has been placed in the binaries directory. It is strongly encouraged that you build a custom kernel for your installation rather than use a prebuilt generic kernel. Installation floppy: This disk contains the software necessary to prepare your hard drive for OpenBSD and install the OpenBSD distribution. It is not bootable, and must be used in conjunction with one of the kernel-copy floppies. This floppy is named "inst-20.fs". Upgrade floppy: This disk contains the software to be used in upgrading the system from a previous version of OpenBSD. It is not bootable, and must be used in conjunction with one of the kernel-copy floppies. This floppy is named "upgr20.fs" The OpenBSD/i386 binary distribution sets contain the binaries which comprise the OpenBSD 2.0 release for the i386. There are seven binary distribution sets. The binary distribution sets can be found in subdirectories of the "i386/bins" subdirectory of the OpenBSD 2.0 distribution tree, and are as follows: base20 The OpenBSD/i386 2.0 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. [ 7.5M gzipped, 19.5M uncompressed ] comp20 The OpenBSD/i386 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. [ 4.9M gzipped, 15.0M uncompressed ] etc20 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.) [ 63K gzipped, 338K uncompressed ] game20 This set includes the games and their manual pages. [ 2.8M gzipped, 6.9M uncompressed ] man20 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. [ 0.8M gzipped, 3.4M uncompressed ] misc20 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. [ 1.9M gzipped, 6.6M uncompressed ] text20 This set includes OpenBSD's text processing tools, including groff, all related programs, and their manual pages. [ 0.8M gzipped, 2.9M uncompressed ] The i386 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 i386 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 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. If you follow the normal installation or upgrade procedures, this will be taken care of for you.