1The following options may be set from this screen:
| 1The following options may be set from this screen. Use the SPACE key
2to toggle an option's value, Q to leave when you're done.
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3NFS Secure: NFS server talks only on a secure port
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5 This is most commonly used when talking to Sun workstations, which
6 will not talk NFS over "non priviledged" ports.
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9NFS Slow: User is using a slow PC or ethernet card
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11 Use this option if you have a slow PC (386) or an ethernet card
12 with poor performance being "fed" by NFS on a higher-performance
13 workstation. This will throttle the workstation back to prevent
14 the PC from becoming swamped with data.
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4NFS Secure: NFS server talks only on a secure port
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6 This is most commonly used when talking to Sun workstations, which
7 will not talk NFS over "non priviledged" ports.
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10NFS Slow: User is using a slow PC or ethernet card
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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.
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17FTP Abort: On transfer failure, abort
| 18Debugging: Turn on the extra debugging flag
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19 This is pretty self-explanatory. If you're transfering from a
20 host that drops the connection or cannot provide a file, abort
21 the installation of that piece.
| 20 This turns on a lot of extra noise over on the second screen
21 (ALT-F2 to see it, ALT-F1 to switch back). If your installation
22 should fail for any reason, PLEASE turn this flag on when
23 attempting to reproduce the problem. It will provide a lot of
24 extra debugging at the failure point and may be very helpful to
25 the developers in tracking such problems down!
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24FTP Reselect: On transfer failure, ask for another host
| 28Yes To All: Assume "Yes" answers to all non-critical dialogs
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26 This is more useful to someone doing an interactive installation.
27 If the current host stops working, ask for a new ftp server to
28 resume the installation from. The install will attempt to pick
29 up from where it left off on the other server, if at all possible.
| 30 This flag should be used with caution. It will essentially
31 decide NOT to ask the user about any "boundry" conditions that
32 might not constitute actual errors but may be warnings indicative
33 of other problems. It's most useful to those who are doing unattended
34 installs.
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32FTP Active: Use "active mode" for standard FTP
| 37FTP OnError: What to do when FTP transfer errors occur.
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34 For all FTP transfers, use "Active" mode. This will not work
35 through firewalls, but will often work with older ftp servers
36 that do not support passive mode. If your connection hangs
37 with passive mode (the default), try active!
| 39 This is pretty self-explanatory. If you're transfering from a
40 host that drops the connection or cannot provide a file, you can
41 chose to Abort the connection, Retry the request (see next option)
42 or Reselect another FTP host, attempting to retry the request from
43 a new site. Pressing SPACE will toggle through these options.
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40FTP Passive: Use "passive mode" for firewalled FTP
| 46FTP Retries: How many times to retry failing FTP requests.
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42 For all FTP transfers, use "Passive" mode. This allows the user
43 to pass through firewalls that do not allow incoming connections
44 on random port addresses.
| 48 If FTP OnError is set to `retry', this is the number of times to
49 loop on a failing request before giving up. If you're talking to a
50 site that's chronically overloaded (like ours!) you may wish to
51 simply set this to some large value and go to lunch or something.
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46 NOTE: ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MODES ARE NOT THE SAME AS A `PROXY'
47 CONNECTION, WHERE A PROXY FTP SERVER IS LISTENING ON A DIFFERENT
48 PORT!
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| 54FTP username: Specify username and password instead of anonymous.
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52 ftp://foo.bar.com:1234/pub/FreeBSD
| 56 By default, the installation attempts to log in as the
57 anonymous user. If you wish to log in as someone else,
58 specify the username and password with this option.
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| 61Tape Blocksize: Specify block size in 512 byte blocks of tape.
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57Debugging: Turn on the extra debugging flag
| 63 This defaults to 20 blocks, which should work with most
64 tape drive + tar combinations. It may not allow your particular
65 drive to win any records for speed, however, and the more
66 adventurous among you might try experimenting with larger sizes.
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59 This turns on a lot of extra noise over on the second screen
60 (ALT-F2 to see it, ALT-F1 to switch back). If your installation
61 should fail for any reason, PLEASE turn this flag on when
62 attempting to reproduce the problem. It will provide a lot of
63 extra debugging at the failure point and may be very helpful to
64 the developers in tracking such problems down!
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| 69Extract Detail: How to show filenames on debug screen as they're extracted.
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67Yes To All: Assume "Yes" answers to all non-critical dialogs
| 71 While a distribution is being extracted, the default detail level
72 of "high" will show the full file names as they're extracted.
73 If you would prefer a more terse form for this, namely dots, select
74 the "medium" detail level. If you want nothing to be printed
75 on the debugging screen during extraction, select "low".
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70 decide NOT to ask the user about any "boundry" conditions that
71 might not constitute actual errors but may be warnings indicative
72 of other problems.
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75FTP userpass: Specify username and password instead of anonymous.
| 80 You should only change this option if you're really sure you know
81 what you are doing! This will change the release name used by
82 sysinstall when fetching components of any distributions.
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77 By default, the installation attempts to log in as the
78 anonymous user. If you wish to log in as someone else,
79 specify the username and password with this option.
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| 85Browser Package: Which package to load for an HTML browser.
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82Clear: Clear All Option Flags
| 87 By default, this is set to lynx but may also be set to any other
88 text capable HTML browser for which a package exists. If you set this
89 to an X based browser, you will not be able to use it if you're running
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88Some of these items, like "FTP Active" or "FTP Passive", are actually
89mutually-exclusive even though you can turn all of them on or off at
90once. This is a limitation of the menuing system, and is compensated
91for by checks that ensure that the various flags are not in conflict.
92If you re-enter the Options menu again after leaving it, you'll see
93the settings it's actually using after checking for any possible
94conflicts.
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98Media Type: Which media type is being used.
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100 This is mostly informational and indicates which media type (if any)
101 was last selected in the Media menu. It's also a convenient short-cut
102 to the media menu itself.
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107 Reset all options back to their default values.
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