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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
separate /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.
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