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.
3
4NFS Secure:   NFS server talks only on a secure port
5
6    This is most commonly used when talking to Sun workstations, which
7    will not talk NFS over "non privileged" ports.
8
9
10NFS Slow:     User is using a slow PC or Ethernet card
11
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.
16
17
18NFS TCP:      Use TCP for the NFS mount
19
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
23    stability.
24
25
26NFS version 3:   Use NFS version 3
27
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.
30
31
32Debugging:    Turn on the extra debugging flag
33
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!
40
41
42No Warnings:  Disable some warnings
43
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.
48
49
50Yes To All:   Assume "Yes" answers to all non-critical dialogs
51
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
56    installs.
57
58
59DHCP:         Enable DHCP configuration of interfaces
60
61    This option specifies whether DHCP configuration of interfaces
62    may be attempted.  The default setting is to interactively ask
63    the user.
64
65
66IPv6:         Enable IPv6 router solicitation configuration
67
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.
72
73
74FTP username:  Specify username and password instead of anonymous.
75
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.
79
80
81Editor:  Specify which screen editor to use.
82
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'.
89
90
91Extract Detail:  How to show filenames on debug screen as they're extracted.
92
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".
97
98
99Release Name:  Which release to attempt to load from installation media.
100
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).
106
107
108Install Root:  Specify some directory other than / as your "root".
109
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
114    for some reason.
115
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.
120
121
122Browser Package:  Which package to load for an HTML browser.
123
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
127    in text mode! :)
128
129
130Browser Exec:  Which binary to run for the HTML browser.
131
132    The full pathname to the main executable in Browser Package.
133
134
135Media Type:   Which media type is being used.
136
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.
140
141
142Package Temp:  Where package temporary files should go
143
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).
148
149
150Newfs Args:    Specify default arguments to newfs(8)
151
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.
156
157
158Fixit Console: The location of the fixit console
159
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.
163
164
165Re-scan Devices:  
166
167   Reprobe the system for devices.
168
169
170Use Defaults:  Use default values.
171
172    Reset all options back to their default values.
173