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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 priviledged" 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.
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!
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 "boundry" 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.
FTP OnError: What to do when FTP transfer errors occur.
This is pretty self-explanatory. If you're transfering from a
host that drops the connection or cannot provide a file, you can
chose to Abort the connection, Retry the request (see next option)
or Reselect another FTP host, attempting to retry the request from
a new site. Pressing SPACE will toggle through these options.
FTP Retries: How many times to retry failing FTP requests.
If FTP OnError is set to `retry', this is the number of times to
loop on a failing request before giving up. If you're talking to a
site that's chronically overloaded (like ours!) you may wish to
simply set this to some large value and go to lunch or something.
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.
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.
Browser Package: Which package to load for an HTML browser.
By default, this is set to lynx 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.
Use Defaults: Use default values.
Reset all options back to their default values.
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