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My first round at all the help files needed explicitly by various menus.

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Folks - please review these!  I'm quite sleepy at the moment, and I'm
sure that some of this could be worded better.  I'd like to have at least
a reasonable syntax pass over this before handing it off to the translation
folks!  Thanks!  Feel free to commit any changes directly if it's any time
in the next 8 hours, BTW. I won't mind since I'll be asleep!
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This menu lets you configure your system a little after it's
installed. In particular, you should probably set the system
manager's password and the system time zone.
For extra goodies like bash, emacs, pascal, etc. you should almost
certainly look at the Packages item in this menu. Note that this is
currently only really useful if you have a CDROM or an existing
packages collection somewhere in the file system hierarchy where the
package management tool can get to it. Automatic transfer of packages
over FTP is not yet supported!

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Select the drives you wish FreeBSD to be able to use.
If you are going to actually install some portion of FreeBSD on a
drive, then PLEASE BE VERY CERTAIN that the Geometry reported in the
Partition Editor (see Installation Menu) is the correct one for your
drive and controller combination!
IDE drives often have a certain geometry set during the PC BIOS setup,
or (in the case of larger IDE drives) have their geometry "remapped"
by either the IDE controller or a special boot-sector translation
utility (such as that by OnTrack Systems). In these cases, knowing
the correct geometry gets even more complicated as it's not something
you can easily tell by looking at the drive or the PC BIOS setup. The
best way of determining your geometry in such situations is to boot
DOS (from the hard disk, not a floppy!) and run the ``pfdisk'' utility
provided in the tools/ subdirectory. It will report the geometry that
DOS sees, which is generally the correct one.
FreeBSD does its best to guess all of this automatically, of course,
but it sometimes fails which is why it's a good idea to check it. The
Partition Editor has a `(G)eometry' command that will allow you to
change it as necessary.

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You can install from the following types of media:
CDROM - requires one of the following supported CDROM drives:
Sony CDU 31/33A
Matushita/Panasonic "Sound Blaster" CDROM.
Mitsumi FX-001{A-D} (older non-IDE drives).
SCSI - Any standard SCSI CDROM drive hooked to
a supported controller (see Hardware Guide).
DOS - A DOS primary partition with the required FreeBSD
distribution files copied onto it (e.g. C:\FREEBSD\)
FS - Assuming a disk or partition with an existing
FreeBSD file system and distribution set on it,
get the distribution files from there.
Floppy - Get distribution files from one or more DOS formatted
floppies.
FTP - Get the distribution files from an anonymous ftp server
(you will be presented with a list).
NFS - Get the distribution files from an NFS server somewhere
(make sure that permissions on the server allow this!)
Tape - Extract distribution files from tape into a temporary
directory and install from there.

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You can do network installations over 3 types of communications links:
Serial port: SLIP / PPP
Parallel port: PLIP (laplink cable)
Ethernet: A standard ethernet controller (includes some PCMCIA).
SLIP support is rather primitive, and limited primarily to hard-wired
links, such as a serial cable running between a laptop computer and
another computer. The link should be hard-wired as the SLIP
installation doesn't currently offer a dialing capability; that
facility is provided with the PPP utility, which should be used in
preference to SLIP whenever possible. When you choose a serial port
device, you'll be given the option later to edit the slattach command
before it's run on the serial line. It is expected that you'll run
slattach (or some equivalent) on the other end of the link at this
time and bring up the line. FreeBSD will then install itself over the
serial line at speeds of up to 115.2K/baud (the recommended speed for
a hardwired cable).
If you're using a modem, then PPP is almost certainly your only
choice. Make sure that you have your service provider's information
handy as you'll need to know it fairly soon in the installation
process. You will need to know, at the minimum, your service
provider's IP address and possibly your own (though you can also leave
it blank and allow PPP to negotiate it with your ISP). You also need
to know how to use the various "AT commands" to dial the ISP with your
particular modem as the PPP dialer provides only a very simple
terminal emulator.
If a hard-wired connection to another FreeBSD (2.0R or later) machine
is available, you might also consider installing over a "laplink"
parallel port cable. The data rate over the parallel port is much
higher than is what's typically possible over a serial line (up to
50k/sec), thus resulting in a quicker installation.
Finally, for the fastest possible installation, an ethernet adaptor is
always a good choice! FreeBSD supports most common PC ethernet cards,
a table of supported cards (and their required settings) provided as
part of the FreeBSD Hardware Guide - see the Documentation menu on the
boot floppy. If you are using one of the supported PCMCIA ethernet
cards, also be sure that it's plugged in _before_ the laptop is
powered on! FreeBSD does not, unfortunately, currently support "hot
insertion" of PCMCIA cards.
You will also need to know your IP address on the network, the the
"netmask" value for your address class and the name of your machine.
Your system administrator can tell you which values to use for your
particular network setup. If you will be referring to other hosts by
name rather than IP address, you'll also need a name server and
possibly the address of a gateway (if you're using PPP, it's your
provider's IP address) to use in talking to it. If you do not know
the answers to all or or most of these questions, then you should
really probably talk to your system administrator _first_ before
trying this type of installation!

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This menu lets you configure your system a little after it's
installed. In particular, you should probably set the system
manager's password and the system time zone.
For extra goodies like bash, emacs, pascal, etc. you should almost
certainly look at the Packages item in this menu. Note that this is
currently only really useful if you have a CDROM or an existing
packages collection somewhere in the file system hierarchy where the
package management tool can get to it. Automatic transfer of packages
over FTP is not yet supported!

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release/sysinstall/help/en_US.ISO_8859-1/drives.hlp Normal file
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Select the drives you wish FreeBSD to be able to use.
If you are going to actually install some portion of FreeBSD on a
drive, then PLEASE BE VERY CERTAIN that the Geometry reported in the
Partition Editor (see Installation Menu) is the correct one for your
drive and controller combination!
IDE drives often have a certain geometry set during the PC BIOS setup,
or (in the case of larger IDE drives) have their geometry "remapped"
by either the IDE controller or a special boot-sector translation
utility (such as that by OnTrack Systems). In these cases, knowing
the correct geometry gets even more complicated as it's not something
you can easily tell by looking at the drive or the PC BIOS setup. The
best way of determining your geometry in such situations is to boot
DOS (from the hard disk, not a floppy!) and run the ``pfdisk'' utility
provided in the tools/ subdirectory. It will report the geometry that
DOS sees, which is generally the correct one.
FreeBSD does its best to guess all of this automatically, of course,
but it sometimes fails which is why it's a good idea to check it. The
Partition Editor has a `(G)eometry' command that will allow you to
change it as necessary.

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You can install from the following types of media:
CDROM - requires one of the following supported CDROM drives:
Sony CDU 31/33A
Matushita/Panasonic "Sound Blaster" CDROM.
Mitsumi FX-001{A-D} (older non-IDE drives).
SCSI - Any standard SCSI CDROM drive hooked to
a supported controller (see Hardware Guide).
DOS - A DOS primary partition with the required FreeBSD
distribution files copied onto it (e.g. C:\FREEBSD\)
FS - Assuming a disk or partition with an existing
FreeBSD file system and distribution set on it,
get the distribution files from there.
Floppy - Get distribution files from one or more DOS formatted
floppies.
FTP - Get the distribution files from an anonymous ftp server
(you will be presented with a list).
NFS - Get the distribution files from an NFS server somewhere
(make sure that permissions on the server allow this!)
Tape - Extract distribution files from tape into a temporary
directory and install from there.

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You can do network installations over 3 types of communications links:
Serial port: SLIP / PPP
Parallel port: PLIP (laplink cable)
Ethernet: A standard ethernet controller (includes some PCMCIA).
SLIP support is rather primitive, and limited primarily to hard-wired
links, such as a serial cable running between a laptop computer and
another computer. The link should be hard-wired as the SLIP
installation doesn't currently offer a dialing capability; that
facility is provided with the PPP utility, which should be used in
preference to SLIP whenever possible. When you choose a serial port
device, you'll be given the option later to edit the slattach command
before it's run on the serial line. It is expected that you'll run
slattach (or some equivalent) on the other end of the link at this
time and bring up the line. FreeBSD will then install itself over the
serial line at speeds of up to 115.2K/baud (the recommended speed for
a hardwired cable).
If you're using a modem, then PPP is almost certainly your only
choice. Make sure that you have your service provider's information
handy as you'll need to know it fairly soon in the installation
process. You will need to know, at the minimum, your service
provider's IP address and possibly your own (though you can also leave
it blank and allow PPP to negotiate it with your ISP). You also need
to know how to use the various "AT commands" to dial the ISP with your
particular modem as the PPP dialer provides only a very simple
terminal emulator.
If a hard-wired connection to another FreeBSD (2.0R or later) machine
is available, you might also consider installing over a "laplink"
parallel port cable. The data rate over the parallel port is much
higher than is what's typically possible over a serial line (up to
50k/sec), thus resulting in a quicker installation.
Finally, for the fastest possible installation, an ethernet adaptor is
always a good choice! FreeBSD supports most common PC ethernet cards,
a table of supported cards (and their required settings) provided as
part of the FreeBSD Hardware Guide - see the Documentation menu on the
boot floppy. If you are using one of the supported PCMCIA ethernet
cards, also be sure that it's plugged in _before_ the laptop is
powered on! FreeBSD does not, unfortunately, currently support "hot
insertion" of PCMCIA cards.
You will also need to know your IP address on the network, the the
"netmask" value for your address class and the name of your machine.
Your system administrator can tell you which values to use for your
particular network setup. If you will be referring to other hosts by
name rather than IP address, you'll also need a name server and
possibly the address of a gateway (if you're using PPP, it's your
provider's IP address) to use in talking to it. If you do not know
the answers to all or or most of these questions, then you should
really probably talk to your system administrator _first_ before
trying this type of installation!