The following options may be set from this screen. Use the SPACE key to toggle an option's value, Q to leave when you're done. NFS Secure: NFS server talks only on a secure port This is most commonly used when talking to Sun workstations, which will not talk NFS over "non privileged" ports. NFS Slow: User is using a slow PC or Ethernet card Use this option if you have a slow PC (386) or an Ethernet card with poor performance being "fed" by NFS on a higher-performance workstation. This will throttle the workstation back to prevent the PC from becoming swamped with data. NFS TCP: Use TCP for the NFS mount This option can be used if your NFS server supports TCP connections; not all do! This may be useful if your NFS server is at a remote site in which case it may offer some additional stability. NFS version 3: Use NFS version 3 This option forces the use of NFS version 3 and is on by default. If your NFS server only supports NFS version 2, disable this option. Debugging: Turn on the extra debugging flag This turns on a lot of extra noise over on the second screen (ALT-F2 to see it, ALT-F1 to switch back). If your installation should fail for any reason, PLEASE turn this flag on when attempting to reproduce the problem. It will provide a lot of extra debugging at the failure point and may be very helpful to the developers in tracking such problems down! No Warnings: Disable some warnings This flag tells sysinstall, and particularly the disk editing routines, that you consider yourself to know what you are doing and disables various warning. It is not recommended that you enable this option. Yes To All: Assume "Yes" answers to all non-critical dialogs This flag should be used with caution. It will essentially decide NOT to ask the user about any "boundary" conditions that might not constitute actual errors but may be warnings indicative of other problems. It's most useful to those who are doing unattended installs. DHCP: Enable DHCP configuration of interfaces This option specifies whether DHCP configuration of interfaces may be attempted. The default setting is to interactively ask the user. IPv6: Enable IPv6 router solicitation configuration This option specifies whether automatic configuration of IPv6 interfaces may be attempted. This uses the router solicitation method of automatic configuration. The default setting is to interactively ask the user. FTP username: Specify username and password instead of anonymous. By default, the installation attempts to log in as the anonymous user. If you wish to log in as someone else, specify the username and password with this option. Editor: Specify which screen editor to use. At various points during the installation it may be necessary to customize some text file, at which point the user will be thrown unceremoniously into a screen editor. A relatively simplistic editor which shows its command set on-screen is selected by default, but UNIX purists may wish to change this setting to `/usr/bin/vi'. Tape Blocksize: Specify block size in 512 byte blocks of tape. This defaults to 20 blocks, which should work with most tape drive + tar combinations. It may not allow your particular drive to win any records for speed, however, and the more adventurous among you might try experimenting with larger sizes. Extract Detail: How to show filenames on debug screen as they're extracted. While a distribution is being extracted, the default detail level of "high" will show the full file names as they're extracted. If you would prefer a more terse form for this, namely dots, select the "medium" detail level. If you want nothing to be printed on the debugging screen during extraction, select "low". Release Name: Which release to attempt to load from installation media. You should only change this option if you're really sure you know what you are doing! This will change the release name used by sysinstall when fetching components of any distributions, and is a useful way of using a more recent installation boot floppy with an older release (say, on CDROM). Install Root: Specify some directory other than / as your "root". This should be left as / unless you have a really good reason to change it. One good reason might be if you were installing to a disk other than your own, as might happen if you needed to prepare a disk for another machine which couldn't load FreeBSD directly for some reason. Note: If you set this option, you will only be able to install packages if the base distribution is also installed (usually the case anyway) since /usr/sbin/pkg_add will otherwise not be found after the chroot() call. Browser Package: Which package to load for an HTML browser. By default, this is set to links but may also be set to any other text capable HTML browser for which a package exists. If you set this to an X based browser, you will not be able to use it if you're running in text mode! :) Browser Exec: Which binary to run for the HTML browser. The full pathname to the main executable in Browser Package. Media Type: Which media type is being used. This is mostly informational and indicates which media type (if any) was last selected in the Media menu. It's also a convenient short-cut to the media menu itself. Package Temp: Where package temporary files should go Some packages, like emacs, can use a LOT of temporary space - up to 20 or 30MB. If you are going to configure a small / directory and no seperate /var (and hence a small /var/tmp), then you may wish to set this to point at another location (say, /usr/tmp). Newfs Args: Specify default arguments to newfs(8) The default parameters used to build new filesystems. If you will be running a service that creates millions of small files or need to specify different default parameters for any other reason, you may do so here. Fixit Console: The location of the fixit console Specifies where sysinstall should start the fixit shell for interactive repair. Valid arguments are "serial" for a serial port, or "standard" for VTY4. Re-scan Devices: Reprobe the system for devices. Use Defaults: Use default values. Reset all options back to their default values.