1 The following options may be set from this screen.
3 NFS Secure: NFS server talks only on a secure port
5 This is most commonly used when talking to Sun workstations, which
6 will not talk NFS over "non privileged" ports.
9 NFS Slow: User is using a slow PC or Ethernet card
11 Use this option if you have a slow PC (386) or an Ethernet card
12 with poor performance being "fed" by NFS on a higher-performance
13 workstation. This will throttle the workstation back to prevent
14 the PC from becoming swamped with data.
17 NFS TCP: Use TCP for the NFS mount
19 This option can be used if your NFS server supports TCP
20 connections; not all do! This may be useful if your NFS server
21 is at a remote site in which case it may offer some additional
25 NFS version 3: Use NFS version 3
27 This option forces the use of NFS version 3 and is on by default.
28 If your NFS server only supports NFS version 2, disable this option.
31 Debugging: Turn on the extra debugging flag
33 This turns on a lot of extra noise in between dialogs (unless
34 debugFile has been set, sending the data to a logfile instead).
35 Optionally, if debugFile begins with a plus sign (`+'), output will
36 occur both on standard output and to debugFile (minus leading plus).
37 If your installation should fail for any reason, PLEASE turn this
38 flag on when attempting to reproduce the problem. It will provide a
39 lot of extra debugging at the failure point and may be very helpful
40 to the developers in tracking such problems down!
43 Yes To All: Assume "Yes" answers to all non-critical dialogs
45 This flag should be used with caution. It will essentially
46 decide NOT to ask the user about any "boundary" conditions that
47 might not constitute actual errors but may be warnings indicative
48 of other problems. It's most useful to those who are doing unattended
52 DHCP: Enable DHCP configuration of interfaces
54 This option specifies whether DHCP configuration of interfaces
55 may be attempted. The default setting is to interactively ask
59 IPv6: Enable IPv6 router solicitation configuration
61 This option specifies whether automatic configuration of IPv6
62 interfaces may be attempted. This uses the router solicitation
63 method of automatic configuration. The default setting is to
64 interactively ask the user.
67 FTP username: Specify username and password instead of anonymous.
69 By default, the installation attempts to log in as the
70 anonymous user. If you wish to log in as someone else,
71 specify the username and password with this option.
74 Editor: Specify which screen editor to use.
76 At various points during the installation it may be necessary
77 to customize some text file, at which point the user will be
78 thrown unceremoniously into a screen editor. A relatively
79 simplistic editor which shows its command set on-screen is
80 selected by default, but UNIX purists may wish to change this
81 setting to `/usr/bin/vi'.
84 Release Name: Which release to attempt to load from installation media.
86 You should only change this option if you're really sure you know
87 what you are doing! This will change the release name used by
88 bsdconfig when fetching components of any distributions, and
89 is a useful way of using a more recent installation boot floppy
90 with an older release (say, on CDROM).
93 Media Type: Which media type is being used.
95 This is mostly informational and indicates which media type (if any)
96 was last selected in the Media menu. It's also a convenient short-cut
97 to the media menu itself.
100 Package Temp: Where package temporary files should go
102 Some packages, like emacs, can use a LOT of temporary space - up to
103 20 or 30MB. If you are going to configure a small / directory and no
104 separate /var (and hence a small /var/tmp), then you may wish to set
105 this to point at another location (say, /usr/tmp).
110 Reprobe the system for devices.
113 Use Defaults: Use default values.
115 Reset all options back to their default values.