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accessing files from various types of media nice and abstracted away from the wet-work involved in preparing, validating, and initializing those types of media. This will be used for the package management system module and other modules that need access to files and want to allow the user to decide where those files come from (either in a scripted fashion, prompted fashion, or any combination thereof). Heavily inspired by sysinstall and even uses the same reserved words so that scripts are portable. Coded over months, tested continuously through- out, and reviewed several times. Some notes about the changes: - Move network-setting acquisition/validation routines to media/tcpip.subr - The options screen from sysinstall has been converted to a dialog menu - The "UFS" media choice is renamed to "Directory" to reflect how sysinstall treats the choice and a new [true] "UFS" media choice has been added that acts on real UFS partitions (such as external disks with disklabels). - Many more help files have been resurrected from sysinstall (I noticed that some of the content seems a bit dated; I gave them a once-over but they could really use an update). - A total of 10 media choices are presented (via mediaGetType) including: CD/DVD, FTP, FTP Passive, HTTP Proxy, Directory, NFS, DOS, UFS, Floppy, USB - Novel struct/device management layer for managing the issue of passing more information than can comfortably fit in an argument list.
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The following options may be set from this screen.
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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 privileged" 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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NFS TCP: Use TCP for the NFS mount
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This option can be used if your NFS server supports TCP
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connections; not all do! This may be useful if your NFS server
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is at a remote site in which case it may offer some additional
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stability.
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NFS version 3: Use NFS version 3
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This option forces the use of NFS version 3 and is on by default.
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If your NFS server only supports NFS version 2, disable this option.
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Debugging: Turn on the extra debugging flag
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This turns on a lot of extra noise in between dialogs (unless
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debugFile has been set, sending the data to a logfile instead).
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Optionally, if debugFile begins with a plus sign (`+'), output will
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occur both on standard output and to debugFile (minus leading plus).
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If your installation should fail for any reason, PLEASE turn this
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flag on when attempting to reproduce the problem. It will provide a
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lot of extra debugging at the failure point and may be very helpful
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to the developers in tracking such problems down!
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DHCP: Enable DHCP configuration of interfaces
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This option specifies whether DHCP configuration of interfaces
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may be attempted. The default setting is to interactively ask
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the user.
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IPv6: Enable IPv6 router solicitation configuration
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This option specifies whether automatic configuration of IPv6
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interfaces may be attempted. This uses the router solicitation
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method of automatic configuration. The default setting is to
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interactively ask the user.
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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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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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bsdconfig 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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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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Re-scan Devices:
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Reprobe the system for devices.
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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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