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69 lines
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HOW TO USE THIS SYSTEM
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[press the PageDown key to go to the next screen when you finish
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reading this one]
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The following keys are recognized in most of the dialogs you'll
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encounter during this installation:
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KEY ACTION
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SPACE Select or toggle the current item.
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ENTER Finish with a menu or item.
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UP ARROW Move to previous item (or up, in a text display box).
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DOWN ARROW Move to next item (or down, in a text display box).
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TAB Move to next item or group.
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RIGHT ARROW Move to next item or group (same as TAB).
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SHIFT-TAB Move to previous item or group.
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LEFT ARROW Move to previous item or group (same as SHIFT-TAB).
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PAGE UP In text display boxes, scrolls up one page.
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PAGE DOWN In text display boxes, scrolls down one page.
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F1 Display associated help text.
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If you see small "^(-)" or "v(+)" symbols at the edges of a menu, it
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means that there are more items above or below the current one that
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aren't being shown (due to insufficient screen space). In text
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display boxes, the amount of text above the current point will be
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displayed as a percentage in the lower right corner. Using the
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Up/Down arrow keys will cause the object to scroll by line. The
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PageUp and PageDown keys will scroll by entire screens.
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Selecting OK in a menu will confirm whatever action it's controlling.
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Selecting Cancel will cancel the operation and generally return you to
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the previous menu. Note also that "checkbox" menus use SPACE to select
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their items, not ENTER! Pressing ENTER will leave the menu with either
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an OK or Cancel status, depending on which button at the bottom is
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selected, and is probably not what you wanted to do if still selecting
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options. Remember the spacebar!
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Most screens obey the Help key (F1) - USE IT! It generally offers useful
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context-specific hints on what to do at each stage of the installation,
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and if you're at all unsure about what to do at a given stage in the
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installation, hit F1!
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SPECIAL FEATURES:
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=================
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It is possible to select a menu item by typing the first character of
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its name, if unique. This will generally be an item number.
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The console driver contains a scroll-back buffer for reviewing things
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that may have scrolled off the screen. To use scroll-back, press the
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"Scroll Lock" key on your keyboard and use the arrow or Page Up/Page
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Down keys to move through the saved text. To leave scroll-back mode,
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press the Scroll Lock key again. This feature is most useful for
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reading back through your boot messages (go ahead, try it now!) though
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it's also useful when dealing with sub-shells or other "wizard modes"
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that don't use menus and tend to scroll their output off the top of
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the screen.
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FreeBSD also supports multiple "virtual consoles" which you can use to
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in order to have several active sessions at once. Use ALT-F<n> to
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switch between screens, where `F<n>' is the function key corresponding
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to the screen you wish to see. By default, the system comes with 3
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virtual consoles enabled - you can enable more by editing the
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/etc/ttys file and turning the "off" field to "on" in the relevant vty
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entries (up to 12).
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