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 NFS TCP: Use TCP for the NFS mount
20 This option can be used if your NFS server supports TCP
21 connections; not all do! This may be useful if your NFS server
22 is at a remote site in which case it may offer some additional
26 NFS version 3: Use NFS version 3
28 This option forces the use of NFS version 3 and is on by default.
29 If your NFS server only supports NFS version 2, disable this option.
32 Debugging: Turn on the extra debugging flag
34 This turns on a lot of extra noise over on the second screen
35 (ALT-F2 to see it, ALT-F1 to switch back). If your installation
36 should fail for any reason, PLEASE turn this flag on when
37 attempting to reproduce the problem. It will provide a lot of
38 extra debugging at the failure point and may be very helpful to
39 the developers in tracking such problems down!
42 No Warnings: Disable some warnings
44 This flag tells sysinstall, and particularly the disk editing
45 routines, that you consider yourself to know what you are
46 doing and disables various warning. It is not recommended that
47 you enable this option.
50 Yes To All: Assume "Yes" answers to all non-critical dialogs
52 This flag should be used with caution. It will essentially
53 decide NOT to ask the user about any "boundary" conditions that
54 might not constitute actual errors but may be warnings indicative
55 of other problems. It's most useful to those who are doing unattended
59 DHCP: Enable DHCP configuration of interfaces
61 This option specifies whether DHCP configuration of interfaces
62 may be attempted. The default setting is to interactively ask
66 IPv6: Enable IPv6 router solicitation configuration
68 This option specifies whether automatic configuration of IPv6
69 interfaces may be attempted. This uses the router solicitation
70 method of automatic configuration. The default setting is to
71 interactively ask the user.
74 FTP username: Specify username and password instead of anonymous.
76 By default, the installation attempts to log in as the
77 anonymous user. If you wish to log in as someone else,
78 specify the username and password with this option.
81 Editor: Specify which screen editor to use.
83 At various points during the installation it may be necessary
84 to customize some text file, at which point the user will be
85 thrown unceremoniously into a screen editor. A relatively
86 simplistic editor which shows its command set on-screen is
87 selected by default, but UNIX purists may wish to change this
88 setting to `/usr/bin/vi'.
91 Tape Blocksize: Specify block size in 512 byte blocks of tape.
93 This defaults to 20 blocks, which should work with most
94 tape drive + tar combinations. It may not allow your particular
95 drive to win any records for speed, however, and the more
96 adventurous among you might try experimenting with larger sizes.
99 Extract Detail: How to show filenames on debug screen as they're extracted.
101 While a distribution is being extracted, the default detail level
102 of "high" will show the full file names as they're extracted.
103 If you would prefer a more terse form for this, namely dots, select
104 the "medium" detail level. If you want nothing to be printed
105 on the debugging screen during extraction, select "low".
108 Release Name: Which release to attempt to load from installation media.
110 You should only change this option if you're really sure you know
111 what you are doing! This will change the release name used by
112 sysinstall when fetching components of any distributions, and
113 is a useful way of using a more recent installation boot floppy
114 with an older release (say, on CDROM).
117 Install Root: Specify some directory other than / as your "root".
119 This should be left as / unless you have a really good reason to
120 change it. One good reason might be if you were installing to a
121 disk other than your own, as might happen if you needed to prepare a
122 disk for another machine which couldn't load FreeBSD directly
125 Note: If you set this option, you will only be able to install
126 packages if the base distribution is also installed (usually
127 the case anyway) since /usr/sbin/pkg_add will otherwise not be
128 found after the chroot() call.
131 Browser Package: Which package to load for an HTML browser.
133 By default, this is set to links but may also be set to any other
134 text capable HTML browser for which a package exists. If you set this
135 to an X based browser, you will not be able to use it if you're running
139 Browser Exec: Which binary to run for the HTML browser.
141 The full pathname to the main executable in Browser Package.
144 Media Type: Which media type is being used.
146 This is mostly informational and indicates which media type (if any)
147 was last selected in the Media menu. It's also a convenient short-cut
148 to the media menu itself.
151 Package Temp: Where package temporary files should go
153 Some packages, like emacs, can use a LOT of temporary space - up to
154 20 or 30MB. If you are going to configure a small / directory and no
155 separate /var (and hence a small /var/tmp), then you may wish to set
156 this to point at another location (say, /usr/tmp).
159 Newfs Args: Specify default arguments to newfs(8)
161 The default parameters used to build new filesystems.
162 If you will be running a service that creates millions of small
163 files or need to specify different default parameters for any
164 other reason, you may do so here.
167 Fixit Console: The location of the fixit console
169 Specifies where sysinstall should start the fixit shell for
170 interactive repair. Valid arguments are "serial" for a serial
171 port, or "standard" for VTY4.
176 Reprobe the system for devices.
179 Use Defaults: Use default values.
181 Reset all options back to their default values.