sysinstall now supports command-line "shortcuts" which can often replace outdated commands, like pkg_manage. Multiple commands can be invoked in sequence, and variables may be set on-the-fly to customize the installation program's behavior in various ways. Syntax: /usr/sbin/sysinstall [var=value ..] [command ..] Where "var" can be one or more of: blanktime Screen blank time setting in seconds bootManager Select boot manager: booteasy, standard or none browserBinary Which doc browser to use (default: links) browserPackage Which package to get browser from (default: links) cpioVerbose How verbose to be with cpio: high, medium or low debug Extra debugging? disk Which disk to operate on (ad0, da0, etc). domainname Domain name editor Which screen editor to use ifconfig_ For each in network_devices ftpDirectory Root of the FreeBSD distribution tree on FTP server ftpOnError Set to retry or abort ftpPass Which password to use when logging into FTP server ftp Which FTP site/dir to use (URL ftp://site/dir/..) ftpPort Which FTP port to use (default: 21) ftpRetryCount How many times to retry a fetch operation ftpUser Which username to use when logging into FTP server ftpHost Which FTP hostname to use (overrides ftp variable) gated Use gated instead of routed defaultrouter IP address of default route geometry Geometry to use for selected disk ("cyl/hd/sec") hostname Fully qualified domain name for host. network_interfaces Which network interfaces to configure ipaddr IP address for this host's primary interface nameserver IP address of name server netmask Netmask for this host's primary interface nfs Full host:/path/ specification to NFS media nfsHost Host portion of nfs path nfsSecure Use NFS secure mount (-P flag) nfs_server Configure this machine as an NFS server noConfirm Don't ask for confirmation on non-fatal errors ntpDate Which ntp clock synchronization server to use pcnfsd Install the PCNFSD package ports Path to the ports collection releaseName Which FreeBSD release to install rootSize Size of the root partition to create for Auto routedflags Which flags to pass to routed, if enabled serialSpeed How fast to run a SLIP/PPP connection slowEthernetCard PC ethernet card is uncommonly slow swapSize Size of the swap partition to create for Auto tapeBlocksize Tape size in blocks ufs Full path to UFS media directory usrSize Size of the /usr partition to create for Auto varSize Size of the /var partition to create for Auto And "command" can be one or more of: addUser Add a new user to the system addGroup Add a new group to the system configAnonFTP Configure system for anonymous FTP configInetd Configure the inetd super-server configNFSServer Configure host as an NFS server configNTP Configure host as an NTP client configPackages Browse / install packages configRouter Configure a routing daemon configUsers Add users and/or groups to the system diskPartitionEditor Partition a new or existing disk diskPartitionWrite Write out any changed partition information diskLabelEditor Label/Newfs/Mount new or existing filesystems diskLabelCommit Write out any changed label information distReset Reset distribution information distSetDeveloper Select developer distribution distSetXDeveloper Select X developer distribution distSetKernDeveloper Select kernel developer distribution distSetUser Select user distribution distSetXUser Select X user distribution distSetMinimum Select minimal distribution distSetEverything Select all distributions distSetDES Select DES sub-distributions distSetSrc Select source sub-distributions distSetXF86 Select XFree86 sub-distributions distExtractAll Extract all selected distributions docBrowser Browse documentation installCommit Commit any pending installation operations installExpress Express installation installStandard Standard installation installUpgrade Upgrade installation mediaSetCDROM Select CDROM media mediaSetFloppy Select floppy media mediaSetDOS Select DOS media mediaSetFTP Select FTP media mediaSetFTPPassive Select FTP media in passive mode mediaSetNFS Select NFS media mediaSetTape Select tape media mediaSetUFS Select UFS media mediaSetFTPUserPass Prompt for FTP username and password mediaSetCPIOVerbosity Prompt for CPIO verbosity mediaGetType Prompt for media type optionsEditor Go to options editor tcpMenuSelect Configure TCP/IP networking Examples: /usr/sbin/sysinstall mediaSetFTP configPackages Selects an FTP site and then goes to the package configuration menu. /usr/sbin/sysinstall disk=da0 diskPartitionEditor Invokes the disk partition editor on disk da0. If /usr/sbin/sysinstall is linked to another filename, say `/usr/local/bin/configPackages', then the basename will be used as an implicit command name.