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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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43Yes To All:   Assume "Yes" answers to all non-critical dialogs
44
45    This flag should be used with caution.  It will essentially
46    decide NOT to ask the user about any "boundary" conditions that
47    might not constitute actual errors but may be warnings indicative
48    of other problems.  It's most useful to those who are doing unattended
49    installs.
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52DHCP:         Enable DHCP configuration of interfaces
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54    This option specifies whether DHCP configuration of interfaces
55    may be attempted.  The default setting is to interactively ask
56    the user.
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59IPv6:         Enable IPv6 router solicitation configuration
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61    This option specifies whether automatic configuration of IPv6
62    interfaces may be attempted.  This uses the router solicitation
63    method of automatic configuration.  The default setting is to
64    interactively ask the user.
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67FTP username:  Specify username and password instead of anonymous.
68
69    By default, the installation attempts to log in as the
70    anonymous user.  If you wish to log in as someone else,
71    specify the username and password with this option.
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74Editor:  Specify which screen editor to use.
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76   At various points during the installation it may be necessary
77   to customize some text file, at which point the user will be
78   thrown unceremoniously into a screen editor.  A relatively
79   simplistic editor which shows its command set on-screen is
80   selected by default, but UNIX purists may wish to change this
81   setting to `/usr/bin/vi'.
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84Release Name:  Which release to attempt to load from installation media.
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86    You should only change this option if you're really sure you know
87    what you are doing!  This will change the release name used by
88    bsdconfig when fetching components of any distributions, and
89    is a useful way of using a more recent installation boot floppy
90    with an older release (say, on CDROM).
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93Media Type:   Which media type is being used.
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95    This is mostly informational and indicates which media type (if any)
96    was last selected in the Media menu.  It's also a convenient short-cut
97    to the media menu itself.
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100Package Temp:  Where package temporary files should go
101
102   Some packages, like emacs, can use a LOT of temporary space - up to
103   20 or 30MB.  If you are going to configure a small / directory and no
104   separate /var (and hence a small /var/tmp), then you may wish to set
105   this to point at another location (say, /usr/tmp).
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108Re-scan Devices:
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110   Reprobe the system for devices.
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113Use Defaults:  Use default values.
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115    Reset all options back to their default values.
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