From 66bf596f002812faff918955732d47d68e945aae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 22:18:35 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] My options menu help. --- .../help/en_US.ISO8859-1/options.hlp | 79 +++++++++++++++++++ .../help/en_US.ISO_8859-1/options.hlp | 79 +++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 158 insertions(+) create mode 100644 release/sysinstall/help/en_US.ISO8859-1/options.hlp create mode 100644 release/sysinstall/help/en_US.ISO_8859-1/options.hlp diff --git a/release/sysinstall/help/en_US.ISO8859-1/options.hlp b/release/sysinstall/help/en_US.ISO8859-1/options.hlp new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..caeea9c563fc --- /dev/null +++ b/release/sysinstall/help/en_US.ISO8859-1/options.hlp @@ -0,0 +1,79 @@ +The following options may be set from this screen: + +NFS Secure: NFS server talks only on a secure port + + This is most commonly used when talking to Sun workstations, which + will not talk NFS over "non priviledged" ports. + + +NFS Slow: User is using a slow PC or ethernet card + + Use this option if you have a slow PC (386) or an ethernet card + with poor performance being "fed" by NFS on a higher-performance + workstation. This will throttle the workstation back to prevent + the PC from becoming swamped with data. + + +FTP Abort: On transfer failure, abort + + This is pretty self-explanatory. If you're transfering from a + host that drops the connection or cannot provide a file, abort + the installation of that piece. + + +FTP Reselect: On transfer failure, ask for another host + + This is more useful to someone doing an interactive installation. + If the current host stops working, ask for a new ftp server to + resume the installation from. The install will attempt to pick + up from where it left off on the other server, if at all possible. + + +FTP Active: Use "active mode" for standard FTP + + For all FTP transfers, use "Active" mode. This will not work + through firewalls, but will often work with older ftp servers + that do not support passive mode. If your connection hangs + with passive mode (the default), try active! + + +FTP Passive: Use "passive mode" for firewalled FTP + + For all FTP transfers, use "Passive" mode. This allows the user + to pass through firewalls that do not allow incoming connections + on random port addresses. + +NOTE: Active and passive modes are not the same as a `proxy' +connections where a proxy ftp server is listening on a different port. +In these situations, you should specify the URL as something like: + + ftp://foo.bar.com:1234/pub/FreeBSD + +Where "1234" is the port number of the proxy ftp server. + + +Debugging: Turn on the extra debugging flag + + This turns on a lot of extra noise over on the second screen + (ALT-F2 to see it, ALT-F1 to switch back). If your installation + should fail for any reason, PLEASE turn this flag on when + attempting to reproduce the problem. It will provide a lot of + extra debugging at the failure point and may be very helpful to + the developers in tracking such problems down! + + +Yes To All: Assume "Yes" answers to all non-critical dialogs + + This flag should be used with caution. It will essentially + decide NOT to ask the user about any "boundry" conditions that + might not constitute actual errors but may be warnings indicative + of other problems. + + + +A number of these items, like "FTP Active" and "FTP Passive", are +actually mutually-exclusive even though you can turn them on all at +once or deselect them all; this is a limitation in the menuing system. + +If you re-enter the Options menu, you'll see the settings it's +actually using after the system checked for any possible conflicts. diff --git a/release/sysinstall/help/en_US.ISO_8859-1/options.hlp b/release/sysinstall/help/en_US.ISO_8859-1/options.hlp new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..caeea9c563fc --- /dev/null +++ b/release/sysinstall/help/en_US.ISO_8859-1/options.hlp @@ -0,0 +1,79 @@ +The following options may be set from this screen: + +NFS Secure: NFS server talks only on a secure port + + This is most commonly used when talking to Sun workstations, which + will not talk NFS over "non priviledged" ports. + + +NFS Slow: User is using a slow PC or ethernet card + + Use this option if you have a slow PC (386) or an ethernet card + with poor performance being "fed" by NFS on a higher-performance + workstation. This will throttle the workstation back to prevent + the PC from becoming swamped with data. + + +FTP Abort: On transfer failure, abort + + This is pretty self-explanatory. If you're transfering from a + host that drops the connection or cannot provide a file, abort + the installation of that piece. + + +FTP Reselect: On transfer failure, ask for another host + + This is more useful to someone doing an interactive installation. + If the current host stops working, ask for a new ftp server to + resume the installation from. The install will attempt to pick + up from where it left off on the other server, if at all possible. + + +FTP Active: Use "active mode" for standard FTP + + For all FTP transfers, use "Active" mode. This will not work + through firewalls, but will often work with older ftp servers + that do not support passive mode. If your connection hangs + with passive mode (the default), try active! + + +FTP Passive: Use "passive mode" for firewalled FTP + + For all FTP transfers, use "Passive" mode. This allows the user + to pass through firewalls that do not allow incoming connections + on random port addresses. + +NOTE: Active and passive modes are not the same as a `proxy' +connections where a proxy ftp server is listening on a different port. +In these situations, you should specify the URL as something like: + + ftp://foo.bar.com:1234/pub/FreeBSD + +Where "1234" is the port number of the proxy ftp server. + + +Debugging: Turn on the extra debugging flag + + This turns on a lot of extra noise over on the second screen + (ALT-F2 to see it, ALT-F1 to switch back). If your installation + should fail for any reason, PLEASE turn this flag on when + attempting to reproduce the problem. It will provide a lot of + extra debugging at the failure point and may be very helpful to + the developers in tracking such problems down! + + +Yes To All: Assume "Yes" answers to all non-critical dialogs + + This flag should be used with caution. It will essentially + decide NOT to ask the user about any "boundry" conditions that + might not constitute actual errors but may be warnings indicative + of other problems. + + + +A number of these items, like "FTP Active" and "FTP Passive", are +actually mutually-exclusive even though you can turn them on all at +once or deselect them all; this is a limitation in the menuing system. + +If you re-enter the Options menu, you'll see the settings it's +actually using after the system checked for any possible conflicts.