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 Extract Detail: How to show filenames on debug screen as they're extracted.
93 While a distribution is being extracted, the default detail level
94 of "high" will show the full file names as they're extracted.
95 If you want nothing to be printed on the debugging screen during
96 extraction, select "low".
99 Release Name: Which release to attempt to load from installation media.
101 You should only change this option if you're really sure you know
102 what you are doing! This will change the release name used by
103 sysinstall when fetching components of any distributions, and
104 is a useful way of using a more recent installation boot floppy
105 with an older release (say, on CDROM).
108 Install Root: Specify some directory other than / as your "root".
110 This should be left as / unless you have a really good reason to
111 change it. One good reason might be if you were installing to a
112 disk other than your own, as might happen if you needed to prepare a
113 disk for another machine which couldn't load FreeBSD directly
116 Note: If you set this option, you will only be able to install
117 packages if the base distribution is also installed (usually
118 the case anyway) since /usr/sbin/pkg_add will otherwise not be
119 found after the chroot() call.
122 Browser Package: Which package to load for an HTML browser.
124 By default, this is set to links but may also be set to any other
125 text capable HTML browser for which a package exists. If you set this
126 to an X based browser, you will not be able to use it if you're running
130 Browser Exec: Which binary to run for the HTML browser.
132 The full pathname to the main executable in Browser Package.
135 Media Type: Which media type is being used.
137 This is mostly informational and indicates which media type (if any)
138 was last selected in the Media menu. It's also a convenient short-cut
139 to the media menu itself.
142 Package Temp: Where package temporary files should go
144 Some packages, like emacs, can use a LOT of temporary space - up to
145 20 or 30MB. If you are going to configure a small / directory and no
146 separate /var (and hence a small /var/tmp), then you may wish to set
147 this to point at another location (say, /usr/tmp).
150 Newfs Args: Specify default arguments to newfs(8)
152 The default parameters used to build new filesystems.
153 If you will be running a service that creates millions of small
154 files or need to specify different default parameters for any
155 other reason, you may do so here.
158 Fixit Console: The location of the fixit console
160 Specifies where sysinstall should start the fixit shell for
161 interactive repair. Valid arguments are "serial" for a serial
162 port, or "standard" for VTY4.
167 Reprobe the system for devices.
170 Use Defaults: Use default values.
172 Reset all options back to their default values.