The pmax-specific portion of the OpenBSD 2.1 release is found in the "pmax" subdirectory of the distribution. That subdirectory is laid out as follows: .../2.1/pmax/ INSTALL.pmax Installation notes; this file. *.gz pmax binary distribution sets; see below. simpleroot* pmax boot and installation simpleroot files; see below. There is a pmax simpleroot image named simpleroot21.fs (it is usually compressed using gzip - simpleroot21.fs.gz - so you need gunzip first to uncompress it) subdirectory of the OpenBSD 2.1 distribution. This file you can dump onto a disk and boot from it to start the installation of OpenBSD/pmax. Also there is a simpleroot21.tar.gz file there. It can be used as root area on the NFS server if you plan to install via network. The OpenBSD/pmax binary distribution sets contain the binaries which comprise the OpenBSD 2.1 release for the pmax. There are seven binary distribution sets. The binary distribution sets can be found in subdirectories of the "pmax/bins" subdirectory of the OpenBSD 2.1 distribution tree, and are as follows: base21 The OpenBSD/pmax 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. [ 15.0M gzipped, 50.8M uncompressed ] comp21 The OpenBSD/pmax 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. [ 16.2M gzipped, 61.1M 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.) [ 93K gzipped, 450K uncompressed ] game21 This set includes the games and their manual pages. [ 2.9M gzipped, 7.5M 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. [ 2.5M gzipped, 9.4M 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. [ 1.8M gzipped, 6.2M uncompressed ] text21 This set includes OpenBSD's text processing tools, including groff, all related programs, and their manual pages. [ 1.0M gzipped, 4.2M uncompressed ] The pmax 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 pmax 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.