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apparently look bad on some LCD screens. While I'm in there, tweak and adjust a number of other minor interface details which have been bothering me for awhile.
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The following options may be set from this screen. Use the SPACE key
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to toggle an option's value, Q to leave when you're done.
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NFS Secure: NFS server talks only on a secure port
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This is most commonly used when talking to Sun workstations, which
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will not talk NFS over "non priviledged" ports.
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NFS Slow: User is using a slow PC or ethernet card
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Use this option if you have a slow PC (386) or an ethernet card
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with poor performance being "fed" by NFS on a higher-performance
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workstation. This will throttle the workstation back to prevent
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the PC from becoming swamped with data.
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Debugging: Turn on the extra debugging flag
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This turns on a lot of extra noise over on the second screen
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(ALT-F2 to see it, ALT-F1 to switch back). If your installation
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should fail for any reason, PLEASE turn this flag on when
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attempting to reproduce the problem. It will provide a lot of
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extra debugging at the failure point and may be very helpful to
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the developers in tracking such problems down!
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Yes To All: Assume "Yes" answers to all non-critical dialogs
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This flag should be used with caution. It will essentially
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decide NOT to ask the user about any "boundry" conditions that
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might not constitute actual errors but may be warnings indicative
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of other problems. It's most useful to those who are doing unattended
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installs.
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FTP OnError: What to do when FTP transfer errors occur.
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This is pretty self-explanatory. If you're transfering from a
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host that drops the connection or cannot provide a file, you can
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chose to Abort the connection, Retry the request (see next option)
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or Reselect another FTP host, attempting to retry the request from
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a new site. Pressing SPACE will toggle through these options.
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FTP Retries: How many times to retry failing FTP requests.
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If FTP OnError is set to `retry', this is the number of times to
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loop on a failing request before giving up. If you're talking to a
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site that's chronically overloaded (like ours!) you may wish to
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simply set this to some large value and go to lunch or something.
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FTP username: Specify username and password instead of anonymous.
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By default, the installation attempts to log in as the
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anonymous user. If you wish to log in as someone else,
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specify the username and password with this option.
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Editor: Specify which screen editor to use.
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At various points during the installation it may be necessary
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to customize some text file, at which point the user will be
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thrown unceremoniously into a screen editor. A relatively
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simplistic editor which shows its command set on-screen is
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selected by default, but UNIX purists may wish to change this
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setting to /usr/bin/vi
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Tape Blocksize: Specify block size in 512 byte blocks of tape.
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This defaults to 20 blocks, which should work with most
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tape drive + tar combinations. It may not allow your particular
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drive to win any records for speed, however, and the more
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adventurous among you might try experimenting with larger sizes.
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Extract Detail: How to show filenames on debug screen as they're extracted.
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While a distribution is being extracted, the default detail level
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of "high" will show the full file names as they're extracted.
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If you would prefer a more terse form for this, namely dots, select
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the "medium" detail level. If you want nothing to be printed
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on the debugging screen during extraction, select "low".
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Release Name: Which release to attempt to load from installation media.
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You should only change this option if you're really sure you know
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what you are doing! This will change the release name used by
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sysinstall when fetching components of any distributions, and
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is a useful way of using a more recent installation boot floppy
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with an older release (say, on CDROM).
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Browser Package: Which package to load for an HTML browser.
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By default, this is set to lynx but may also be set to any other
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text capable HTML browser for which a package exists. If you set this
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to an X based browser, you will not be able to use it if you're running
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in text mode! :)
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Browser Exec: Which binary to run for the HTML browser.
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The full pathname to the main executable in Browser Package
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Media Type: Which media type is being used.
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This is mostly informational and indicates which media type (if any)
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was last selected in the Media menu. It's also a convenient short-cut
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to the media menu itself.
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Package Temp: Where package temporary files should go
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Some packages, like emacs, can use a LOT of temporary space - up to
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20 or 30MB. If you are going to configure a small / directory (and
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hence a small /tmp) then you may wish to set this to point at another
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location (say, /usr/tmp).
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Use Defaults: Use default values.
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Reset all options back to their default values.
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