File Sets
The release directory for each architecture contains several compressed files with names like comp52.tgz, base52.tgz, and so on. These file sets contain compressed OpenBSD installation files. By choosing to install particular file sets, you can pick how much functionality your OpenBSD system will have out of the box. For example, the documentation is kept in a separate distribution set. If you have documentation elsewhere, you might choose to not install it on a particular system. Also, intruders often make use of compilers, so you might not want them on a system you want to protect. But if this is your experimental “learning OpenBSD” machine, install everything.
Each file set has a name and a version number. For example, one distribution ...
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