1 The following options may be set from this screen. Use the SPACE key
2 to toggle an option's value, Q to leave when you're done.
4 NFS Secure: NFS server talks only on a secure port
6 This is most commonly used when talking to Sun workstations, which
7 will not talk NFS over "non privileged" ports.
10 NFS Slow: User is using a slow PC or Ethernet card
12 Use this option if you have a slow PC (386) or an Ethernet card
13 with poor performance being "fed" by NFS on a higher-performance
14 workstation. This will throttle the workstation back to prevent
15 the PC from becoming swamped with data.
18 Debugging: Turn on the extra debugging flag
20 This turns on a lot of extra noise over on the second screen
21 (ALT-F2 to see it, ALT-F1 to switch back). If your installation
22 should fail for any reason, PLEASE turn this flag on when
23 attempting to reproduce the problem. It will provide a lot of
24 extra debugging at the failure point and may be very helpful to
25 the developers in tracking such problems down!
28 Yes To All: Assume "Yes" answers to all non-critical dialogs
30 This flag should be used with caution. It will essentially
31 decide NOT to ask the user about any "boundary" conditions that
32 might not constitute actual errors but may be warnings indicative
33 of other problems. It's most useful to those who are doing unattended
37 FTP username: Specify username and password instead of anonymous.
39 By default, the installation attempts to log in as the
40 anonymous user. If you wish to log in as someone else,
41 specify the username and password with this option.
44 Install Root: Specify some directory other than / as your "root".
46 This should be left as / unless you have a really good reason to
47 change it. One good reason might be if you were installing to a
48 disk other than your own, as might happen if you needed to prepare a
49 disk for another machine which couldn't load FreeBSD directly
52 Note: If you set this option, you will only be able to install
53 packages if the bin distribution is also installed (usually
54 the case anyway) since /usr/sbin/pkg_add will otherwise not be
55 found after the chroot() call.
58 Editor: Specify which screen editor to use.
60 At various points during the installation it may be necessary
61 to customize some text file, at which point the user will be
62 thrown unceremoniously into a screen editor. A relatively
63 simplistic editor which shows its command set on-screen is
64 selected by default, but UNIX purists may wish to change this
65 setting to /usr/bin/vi
68 Tape Blocksize: Specify block size in 512 byte blocks of tape.
70 This defaults to 20 blocks, which should work with most
71 tape drive + tar combinations. It may not allow your particular
72 drive to win any records for speed, however, and the more
73 adventurous among you might try experimenting with larger sizes.
76 Extract Detail: How to show filenames on debug screen as they're extracted.
78 While a distribution is being extracted, the default detail level
79 of "high" will show the full file names as they're extracted.
80 If you would prefer a more terse form for this, namely dots, select
81 the "medium" detail level. If you want nothing to be printed
82 on the debugging screen during extraction, select "low".
85 Release Name: Which release to attempt to load from installation media.
87 You should only change this option if you're really sure you know
88 what you are doing! This will change the release name used by
89 sysinstall when fetching components of any distributions, and
90 is a useful way of using a more recent installation boot floppy
91 with an older release (say, on CDROM).
94 Browser Package: Which package to load for an HTML browser.
96 By default, this is set to links but may also be set to any other
97 text capable HTML browser for which a package exists. If you set this
98 to an X based browser, you will not be able to use it if you're running
102 Browser Exec: Which binary to run for the HTML browser.
104 The full pathname to the main executable in Browser Package
107 Media Type: Which media type is being used.
109 This is mostly informational and indicates which media type (if any)
110 was last selected in the Media menu. It's also a convenient short-cut
111 to the media menu itself.
114 Package Temp: Where package temporary files should go
116 Some packages, like emacs, can use a LOT of temporary space - up to
117 20 or 30MB. If you are going to configure a small / directory (and
118 hence a small /tmp) then you may wish to set this to point at another
119 location (say, /usr/tmp).
122 Use Defaults: Use default values.
124 Reset all options back to their default values.