options.hlp revision 247280 
1The following options may be set from this screen.
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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 privileged" 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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17NFS TCP:      Use TCP for the NFS mount
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19    This option can be used if your NFS server supports TCP
20    connections; not all do!  This may be useful if your NFS server
21    is at a remote site in which case it may offer some additional
22    stability.
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25NFS version 3:   Use NFS version 3
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27    This option forces the use of NFS version 3 and is on by default.
28    If your NFS server only supports NFS version 2, disable this option.
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31Debugging:    Turn on the extra debugging flag
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33    This turns on a lot of extra noise in between dialogs (unless
34    debugFile has been set, sending the data to a logfile instead).
35    Optionally, if debugFile begins with a plus sign (`+'), output will
36    occur both on standard output and to debugFile (minus leading plus).
37    If your installation should fail for any reason, PLEASE turn this
38    flag on when attempting to reproduce the problem.  It will provide a
39    lot of extra debugging at the failure point and may be very helpful
40    to the developers in tracking such problems down!
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43DHCP:         Enable DHCP configuration of interfaces
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45    This option specifies whether DHCP configuration of interfaces
46    may be attempted.  The default setting is to interactively ask
47    the user.
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50IPv6:         Enable IPv6 router solicitation configuration
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52    This option specifies whether automatic configuration of IPv6
53    interfaces may be attempted.  This uses the router solicitation
54    method of automatic configuration.  The default setting is to
55    interactively ask the user.
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58FTP username:  Specify username and password instead of anonymous.
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60    By default, the installation attempts to log in as the
61    anonymous user.  If you wish to log in as someone else,
62    specify the username and password with this option.
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65Editor:  Specify which screen editor to use.
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67   At various points during the installation it may be necessary
68   to customize some text file, at which point the user will be
69   thrown unceremoniously into a screen editor.  A relatively
70   simplistic editor which shows its command set on-screen is
71   selected by default, but UNIX purists may wish to change this
72   setting to `/usr/bin/vi'.
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75Release Name:  Which release to attempt to load from installation media.
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77    You should only change this option if you're really sure you know
78    what you are doing!  This will change the release name used by
79    bsdconfig when fetching components of any distributions, and
80    is a useful way of using a more recent installation boot floppy
81    with an older release (say, on CDROM).
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84Media Type:   Which media type is being used.
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86    This is mostly informational and indicates which media type (if any)
87    was last selected in the Media menu.  It's also a convenient short-cut
88    to the media menu itself.
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91Re-scan Devices:  
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93   Reprobe the system for devices.
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96Use Defaults:  Use default values.
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98    Reset all options back to their default values.
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